Alex Wolf

Performance sport & well-being education, coaching, & human creativity. Dad, novice gardener, amateur chef, love travelling & coffee

[IUSCA @IUSCA]

🤔Do you think adaptation first when you’re designing your programmes?

Adaptation should be one of the key foundations that underpins the direction of your programming, but there’s not a one size fits all approach, every environment/situation is completely different!

🎧 Listen to @Alexpwolf on how you can use an adaptation based approach to your programming in order to achieve better outcomes with your athletes!

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You can also access IUSCA Video for 🆓 by registering for any course or certification at https://t.co/cYuLnq9KlK

#strengthandconditioning #sportsscience #sportsperformance #exercisescience #strengthtraining #strengthcoach #iusca

[IUSCA @IUSCA]

🤯 What a webinar this was! Did you miss our 🆓 webinar with Alex Wolf earlier this month?

🤔 What’s your thought process when designing programmes for your athletes? Do you focus on adaptation throughout the whole process?

🎧 Listen to @Alexpwolf on why you should focus on utilising an Adaptation Led Approach in Strength & Conditioning!

Access even more video content from practitioners and researchers around the world by heading over to IUSCA Video👇

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🚨You can also access IUSCA Video for 🆓 by registering for any course or certification at https://t.co/cYuLnq9KlK

#strengthandconditioning #sportsscience #sportsperformance #exercisescience #strengthtraining #strengthcoach #iusca

[Alex Wolf @Alexpwolf]

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[Alex Wolf @Alexpwolf]

What if you could make better decisions faster with more clarity?

The Reflection Journal is an AI-powered tool designed to help you think clearly & act with intent all in under 5 minutes a day.

👉 Join the pilot - places are limited: https://t.co/hRJaosSsMe

[Science of Rowing @ScienceofRowing]

🚨 Only 2 days to go until the 2024 Science of Rowing Virtual Conference! 🌍 Time to sharpen your skills with insights from global experts in applied physiology and biomechanics. Ready to enhance your rowing game? 💡🚣‍♂️⁣

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[Alex Wolf @Alexpwolf]

Stoked for my buddy & colleague @JDeLeo on his first lead author publication expanding our understanding of beach sprint rowing injury & illness, particularly relevant as it makes it debut in LA 2028! 👏👏👏

Some class photography too 😜

Open access too: https://t.co/Z2SeFvCnMX

[Science of Rowing @ScienceofRowing]

Join our lead author, Alex Wolf, in this month's podcast as he shares his personal experiences in Rio and discusses how he helped rowing athletes manage their heat perception for peak performance.

#Podcast #RowingAthletes #HeatPerception #PeakPerformance #SportsScience

[Science of Rowing @ScienceofRowing]

Join us at our 2024 virtual conference as James Goodwin, Head of Sport Science for Swiss Rowing, presents his groundbreaking Critical Power Model. Don't miss this insightful session! #VirtualConference2024 #SportsScience #Rowing #CriticalPowerModel #JamesGoodwin

[Science of Rowing @ScienceofRowing]

Join our Science of Rowing Virtual Conference this October! Over two days, delve into applied physiology and biomechanics with guest experts. Sign up for lifetime access to cutting-edge rowing research. Don't miss out!

#RowingScience #VirtualConference #Physiology #Biomechanics

[Alex Wolf @Alexpwolf]

@EamonnFlanagan This is great. Couldn’t agree more! We regularly say that adaptation is regulated by how the athlete performs the training, the conditions we create as a coach to enable athletes to perform it and the conditions of how the programme attempts to create the desired outcome.

[Eamonn Flanagan @EamonnFlanagan]

The 3 As of strength & conditioning program monitoring:

Attendance
Adherence
Adaptation

Often in S&C we jump to monitor Adaptation first.

Is the athlete getting bigger/faster/stronger....

but what value is there in this if we don't know if our program is contributing to any such improvements?

Start with the basics:

Attendance:
Is the athlete showing up?
How many sessions have they completed?
Are they actively engaged in your program?

A simple attendance monitoring is the place to start. If we establish that they are showing up, then we can next look at what they are actually doing.

Adherence:
Is the athlete completing the program as prescribed? How often are they adapting the program?

Here we can track % of adapted sessions, volume loads, relative intensities, velocity zones, etc.

If we don't know that they are completing or adhering to the program, there's little reason to look at the adaptive response.

Adaptation:
Are we moving the needle on performance?
Are we achieving our program goals?

Once we have a picture of attendance & adherence, it is only then that we should dig into the sexy stuff of adaptation.

Exact metrics will be specific to the athlete & the context. These can range across jump testing, strength diagnostics, 1RM testing or L/V profiling.

However until we've established attendance and adherence there's an element of "cart before the horse" if we start with adaptation-led monitoring.

Good systems have all 3 and build from the ground up.

[Alex Wolf @Alexpwolf]

Thanks gents. Slightly awkward I wasn’t invited though 😂

[Dan Howells @HowellsDan]

Public happy brithday to @Alexpwolf from two typical bald s&c guys 👍🙌

[SHPRC @SportHumanPerf]

Are you interested in unlocking training success? 🚀Join us at our next SHPRC seminar with Alex Wolf (Strength & Conditioning Academy) as we dive into adaptation-led programming ! @alexpwolf @S_CAcademy

🗓️8th November, 13h00

📢Register for the event ➡️ https://t.co/JmjQPqYljA

[Alex Wolf @Alexpwolf]

@FrankNugent10 @PaulTho66878200 @SportHumanPerf Thanks for the kind words Frank. Could say same thing about a number of your research articles too! Looking forward to present in few weeks!

[Alex Wolf @Alexpwolf]

Up bright and breezy for our @trainwithsoar first event sponsor at the @Shrewsburyhalf . Big thanks to everyone that for us here @UKRunChat @rununbound @HarrySmitten3 @PropelTeams @JoshWardle96 @TomRusga. Bit of a milestone for us.

[UKRunChat @UKRunChat]

One more day to go!

@Shrewsburyhalf

[Science of Rowing @ScienceofRowing]

@Alexpwolf Alex will provide attendees with an overview of the structure and function of the trunk and how it relates to the rowing stroke.

You can learn more about our speakers and presenters at our conference website. https://t.co/pRwDZfiK7Z

[Science of Rowing @ScienceofRowing]

Register today! If you are with one of our partners @rowingaustralia @rowingaust @britishrowing @crca_row @rowingfaster please check with them for your coupon code and a percentage off the registration fee!

[Science of Rowing @ScienceofRowing]

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[Soar @soar_ready2run]

On the back of our @UkRunChat #ukrunchat chat hour last night, we thought we would share some threads which may help with injuries you guys discussed about 🧵