113: John Kiely: Coordination, Variability and the Human Running Machine | Sponsored by SimpliFaster

Today’s episode features strength coach and sport scientist, John Kiely. John is a senior lecturer at the university of Lancashire, a strength coach with extensive rugby experience, and also a former boxing champion. He is one of the most intelligent minds in the field, and is widely known for his ideals on periodization and planning. As much as I love talking the organization of training, John’s experience and knowledge runs much further than periodization, and some of John’s work on running and coordination have been some of the most memorable articles I’ve read in my experience as a coach. To that end, I’m thrilled to have John Kiely talk about some significant pieces of training that I think go under-appreciated. These are the topics of variability and its impact on the brain, how to optimally train coordination in athletes, and also how we as humans differ from the animals in our running and locomotion. It is these concepts taken full circle that I believe can give any coach or athlete a much fuller appreciation and depth to how we as a species can be trained to our fullest potential. Coordination and variability are really the links to that zone we often refer to as the land that sits between rehab and strength and conditioning where so mamy performance gains are often made. On today’s show, we also get into the concepts of reflexes in sport, as well as internal versus external cues, given the rules of coordination in training. Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster.com, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more. View more show notes at Just-fly-sports.com/podcast-113-john-kiely