Optimal Movement for Human Performance
Derek M. Hansen I often scan the weekly injury stats for all the teams in the NFL to see which of my fantasy players will be out for the week and may be less than 100 percent for their upcoming games. I am always shocked to see how many players are listed as injured, doubtful… [Continue Reading]
Back in May of 2012, we sat down with Jimson Lee of SpeedEndurance.com and got his thoughts on what he thought would happen at the London 2012 Summer Olympics in the Athletics competition, particularly the speed events. Jimson also had a chance to see some potential podium finishers in training at various camps across North… [Continue Reading]
– Derek M. Hansen – Now that a new season in the National Football League is upon us, we are once again able to enjoy the feats of speed, power, strength and skill displayed by the stars of the game from week to week. Fans will argue back and forth over whose team is… [Continue Reading]
I recently had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Jimson Lee of SpeedEndurance.com. Jimson was just on the tail end of his North American road trip. One of his big stops was in the state of Florida where he had a chance to observe the training of a number of high performance training… [Continue Reading]
After creating a customized program of electrostimulation for speed development, namely the Globus SpeedCoach series, I wanted to make sure that people would be able to implement it with little to no hassles. I developed a detailed supplementary user manual for guiding coaches and athletes through the individual electrostimulation sessions. However, some of the information… [Continue Reading]
- Derek M. Hansen – At first glance, it sounds like an unnecessary question: “Are we running enough?” If we looked at the unprecedented growth in obesity in North America, the obvious answer would be “no”. However, taking that angle would be considered “easy pickins” as societal obesity is a much more complex problem of… [Continue Reading]
In my ongoing quest to provide simple solutions to complex problems, I have created a video resource to help coaches and athletes develop an organized approach to improve starting and acceleration for their given sport. The result of this effort is “Start Mechanics and Training Applications.” Research has shown that how an athlete starts can… [Continue Reading]
- Derek M. Hansen – I had the pleasure of being in Times Square in New York City last weekend for the announcement of the 2011 Heisman Trophy winner, Baylor’s Robert Griffin III. As soon as his name was announced, I thought of fellow strength coach and friend, Chris Ruf of Baylor University, and his… [Continue Reading]
- Derek M. Hansen – Running successfully over long distances (I consider anything over 400 meters to be a long distance) requires a composite of many factors. The majority of distance runners will tell you that “mileage” and overall training volume will form the foundation of their training program. Hence, good distance runners tend to… [Continue Reading]
- Derek M. Hansen – As a track and field athlete, I always ran in the sprint races or competed in the jumping events. In college, a 200 meter sprint race was an eternity for me even though I ran the quarter mile in high school. So my foray into middle distance running was limited… [Continue Reading]
