Northern California State Clinic

Learning Objectives:
- Define and explain periodization
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using a periodization scheme with high school athletes
- Illustrate how to design a periodized plan

This presentation will provide an overview of how psychological trauma can impact the brain. It will then discuss how as coaches and practitioners (specifically not mental health professionals), we can create environments that are sensitive to the varied backgrounds of individuals we face while maintaining our scope of practice and safe boundaries.

Drawing from experiences accrued working in both the professional and amateur settings, we will compare and contrast the demands of baseball across multiple levels of competition. Questions we will look to answer: how different is the game from one rung to the next, what sets an athlete apart as the progression, and what can we learn from the professional ranks to apply to amateur player development?

Learning Objectives:
- A timely and successful rehab should be the rule not the exception
- Developing a high performance model
- Developing a return to competition protocol for the most common regions of the body
- Where to start and where to finish
- Your scope of practice may start sooner than you think
- Landmark driven not timeline driven
- Working backwards from the game to return ready to compete at the highest level

Learning Objectives:
- Define velocity based training
- Define the objectives with implementing VBT
- Outline use cases for VBT
- Talk about practical applications

- A comprehensive approach to the Athletic Development Model
- How taking a step back in exercise complexity can actually lead to longer term gains
- Why meeting an athlete where they're at may be better for their overall athletic development
- Why sticking to the basics may be best
- The six basic human movements and why all programs should have each represented
- Why strength is a skill that must be practiced, similar to practicing a sport skill
- Extensive lists of variations of the six primary human movements

Preparation for a fight camp entails many details. It's easy to know where you want to go, but how do you get there? There are many ways to skin a cat in the training process, but pre-intra-post testing diagnostics, weekly meetings, and pre-intra-post briefing are not always utilized. Key Performance Indicators play a KEY role in each individualized training program. This session will include the global high performance team dynamic and specialized approach the UFCPI S & C discipline use to prepare a UFC fighter for their big competition day.

In this talk Ron will discuss how athletes are different now and how they should be reached. The old school method of simply yelling no longer works. Athletes have different needs and styles as a result of changing culture and the coach must be able to approach them in the most appropriate means to get them to train as hard as possible.