BrianMac Sports Coach
BrianMac was a Level 4 Performance Coach with British Athletics, the Uk's National Governing body for Track and Field Athletics. Brian has 40+ years experience as an endurance athlete competing over distances from 5k to 50k on the roads, fells and mountains. He has 30+ years of experience as an athletics coach helping sprinters and combined ...
Performance Evaluation Tests - more than 101 available
Examples of such tests are: Time trials - speed, speed endurance, endurance. Muscular endurance - chins, push-ups, dips. Strength maximum - single repetitions, maximum repetitions. Explosive strength - power bounding, vertical jump, overhead shot putt. Mobility - objective measurements of the range of movement. Event-specific.
BrianMac Sports Coach
BrianMac was a Level 4 Performance Coach with British Athletics, the Uk's National Governing body for Track and Field Athletics. Brian has 40+ years experience as an endurance athlete competing over distances from 5k to 50k on the roads, fells and mountains. He has 30+ years of experience as an athletics coach helping sprinters and combined ...
Sprint speed test over 30 metres - BrianMac
This test requires the athlete to sprint 60 metres. The athlete conducts a warm-up for 10 minutes. The assistant marks out a 60-metre straight section (AC) with cones and places a cone at the 30-metre point (B) From a sprint start with appropriate start commands (on your marks, set, "GO") from the assistant, the athlete sprints the 60m. The ...
The 30 metre Acceleration Performance Evaluation Test - BrianMac
This test requires the athlete to sprint as fast as possible over 30 metres. The athlete warms up for 10 minutes. The assistant marks out a 30-metre straight section with cones. The athlete starts in their own time and sprints as fast as possible over the 30 metres. The assistant starts the stopwatch on the athlete's 1st foot strike after ...
Strength Training - BrianMac
Strength training results in muscle hypertrophy, an increase in the cross-sectional size of existing fibres. This is achieved by increasing: number of myofibrils. sarcoplasmic volume. protein. supporting connective tissue (ligaments and tendons) Strength training programs increase intramuscular stores such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP ...
Sprinting - BrianMac
Sprinting. The sprints include the following track events: 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres, 4 x 100-metre relay and the 4 x 400-metre relay. Although the sprints are events in themselves, the ability to sprint is an essential weapon in an athlete's …
Reaction Time and Reaction Speed Drills - BrianMac
Reaction Speed Drills. The objective of the reaction speed drills is to improve your reaction time to a stimulus. The exercises can include controlling an object (e.g. football or hockey puck). The cue for the reaction to take place can be visual (movement of an object) or a specific command (voice), or sound (starter's gun).
Training Articles - Evaluation - BrianMac
Training Articles - Evaluation. Nature has blessed us with five senses, one of which - the ability to talk, is a great way of self-regulating the intensity of your training activity as an athlete. Traditionally, the talk test has remained almost the exclusive preserve of the endurance athlete, but it is used both for the middle-distance athlete ...
Football - BrianMac
How to improve your soccer strength and speed (power) Importance of strength training in football. Interval training for the game's player. Interval Training for football players. Kicking Accuracy. Level of fitness required for any aspiring professional football player. Low Down on Aussie Rules Football. Nutritional advice for football players.