My intention with the Injury Specific Training (IST) blog series is to compile short media clips and discussion to improve my coaching ability and the way strength and performance professionals train athletes and laypeople. The pictures and videos in this series are from random training videos from social media or media I take of my own clients.
Injury Resistant Training (IRT) series, the opposite to IST, will feature movement and lifts done properly. Combining both series, I’m offering what the problem looks like and what the solution looks like.
A key for coaches given today’s available technology is to ensure the trainee’s mechanics look good in real time AND in slow motion. Slow motion video is a game changer as it allows coaches to develop strategies for correction if needed and regress patterns or make better exercise selections to improve injury resilience.
All videos have been put in slow motion by me. This trainee is a national level female sprinter. I’d like to point out that the right side knee and foot collapse seen in the trap bar deadlight in video 1 carries over directly to the high intensity depth jumps seen in videos 2 and 3.
The trainee shows she does not have the “software” to properly navigate the lift nor the forces involved in the depth jumps at those heights. Coaches should recognize that the collapse seen at near maximal loads in video 1 should be closely monitored during dynamic movement.
Mechanics displayed in these videos are appropriate for moving backwards but not forwards as her knees are going in to out as she applies force into the ground. As a sprinter that runs forward, learning to move in reverse during her training is troublesome.
Future blogs will show the difference between moving forward and backward properly using jumping athletes (high jumper jumping backwards vs. basketball player jumping forward). My ideas are influenced by GOATA Movement. Please take time to review their material.
