Midwest Regional Conference / IN-PERSON

This will be a multi-pronged presentation that will address where power comes from, why it is important in wrestling, what we do to develop it and showing several different methods/techniques to achieve it. This will also include discussing Olympic Lifts, plyometric movements, wrestling specific exercises and testing. Finally, we will cover the 4 Day and 3 Day workouts for the wrestlers at Oklahoma State University.

Tactical Mobility Recovery and Evaluation is a series of exercises that allows the athlete to work on mobility during a recovery workout while the strength coach / athletic trainer / physical therapist evaluate the athletes' movement patterns. This approach helps athletes realize where they may need improvement, identifies "movement" imbalances, and shows basic patterns the athletes can work on by themselves.

In this hands-on session you will learn 40 different mobility exercises that will allow your athletes to recover, while you evaluate their movement patterns.

This presentation will focus on the research and application of HIT training and HIT training protocols for both healthy and clinical populations.

Learning Objectives:
• Present fatigue threshold modeling
• Discuss current finding in college-aged, recreationally-trained individuals
• Examine the implications fatigue thresholds have for understanding and improving low-load resistance exercise, tactical job duties, and strength preservation across the lifespan

There is more to movement than meets the eye when gauging success and preparation in training. The weight room is the one environment a coach can control to expose athletes to stress and should rely on more than weight numbers to gauge preparedness for the competitive arena. Take the guesstimation out of it. Learn what to look for when overloading athletes and how to tighten up where the screws are loose before they speed off to competition.

Learning Objectives:
• Understand the different types of attentional styles during exercise
• Understand how to determine preferred attentional style
• Apply a targeted approach based on each athlete/client's preferred attentional style