Strength and power

New special edition podcast now available featuring athlete Carys Webster and RedPill coach Kerry Lyske. Carys works in intensive care and compete in CrossFit sanctional level. Kerry is a rheumatologist who mostly works with muscular skeletal pain.

Everything you need to know about running from injuries, building volume, to the mechanics of running.

The coaches delve into how to decipher which strength protocols to select for different athletes and how to get the best out of them.

It’s been a turbulent couple of months within the sport of CrossFit. Phil, Jowsey and Jemma discuss what’s been going on and what the future of the sport might look like.

How do you know when your athlete is ready to go back to sport? What are the criteria and the thought processes behind us as coaches and how we allow athletes to return to sport? When do you allow them to go back to training and what is involved in that decision process?

In this episode, Phil, James, and Jemma discuss flexibility, stability, and how the two exist within motion. They chat about why flexibility and stability are difficult topics to research in tandem, how to assess them in isolation with athletes, strategies about identifying how they exist within motion, how to separate them out to see them within motion, and what strategies to use to help people with deficits in either area.

Everything about how RedPill Generic — how it came about, the work behind the scenes, what to expect, and the thinking behind the workouts.

Culture in SportDifferent sports display different cultural characteristics.Phil Mansfield and James Jowsey explore their experience of different sports to highlight the varying cultures in each one. From sportswear to admitting injury, every sport is different. Is there an opportunity to learn from one another?Intro…One of the things that fascinates me the most.One sport proves you can do it, one sport says you can’t.Everyone thinks they look good in their sports kit.18:00Culture of training25:00Benefits of multi sports training camps26:00CrossFit Athletes competing at the Weightlifting Commonwealth Games34:00Ability to lose35:00Cultural Injury in sportPain threshold – can it be trained through the culture of sport?51:00Display of pain in different sports53:00What is the worlds toughest / hardest sport?58:41What is the best dressed sport?

Phil Mansfield and James Jowsey discuss strength training. This is for coaches and athletes struggling to increase their numbers even though they are putting in the work and time during strength training.If you’re not getting the return on investment for time invested, then we need to look at why.IntroThere’s not necessarily much difference in strength cycles – just the way they are sold. People would like you to believe the way they write 4x8 is different to mine but it’s not.Most strength cycles have similar aspects. The critical features are the same. The neurological stimulus they are going after are very similar.7:55The biggest issue with strength training is how we measure it. How many kilos of weight does athlete move from point a from point b not how much force, there is an incredible difference between the two.You are actually moving more weight during a 200-kilo squat than you are a 400-kilo leg press because of where they weight is in relation to the centre of mass.29:00Coaches are scared to make a decision. They want to be told what to do. What do I do in this situation?The manager of the football team ultimately has to decide what tactics. He has to understand the players etc to make that decision.In the CrossFit world we have to understand the athlete to allow us to make the right decision. Understand their body, energy systems, joints etc..34:00How do you know? Do you need a strength cycle or help with positioning?

Talk the TorqueI would like to help people get through the apparent misunderstandings of torque and understand it from a scientific point of view.Why is it important to understand, what is its role for us as coaches? How is it researched?2.15It’s just energy.If you fire water through a tube it creates energy and creates pressure against the outside of the tube.3.05The scientific definition‘A torque acting on a body is created by a force acting a distance away from the axis of rotation.’Axis of rotation in a gym setting… a bicep curl is the elbow.The forces are the key component within the torque concept. Without the forces there can’t be a torque.None Contact ForcesGravityContact ForcesGround reaction forceJoint reaction forcesFrictionFluid resistanceAir resistanceInertial forceMuscle forceElastic force7.50It’s a big topic there are some many different avenues. We could talk about the biomechanical route, muscular route, length / tension … this might be two podcasts.9.20 Digital Human Modelling Paper.13.30EMG vs Torque are 2 completely different topics16.00Muscles force – Achilles tendon20.30We can see from the biomechanical studies these forces iniitate motion…Torque is the final energy.29.00It touches on strength vs techniqueThe application of squat training, the reason people do a box squat trying to keep a vertical shin… when we look at the bone motions the centre of mass has changed. The vertical shin is creating a greater torque than allowing the knee to drift forward. The reason people get stronger by doing box squats is because you have changed the torque on your body, you are overcoming more weight even though there is less weight on the bar…