Zac Brouillette

University of Oklahoma S&C/Sports Science •Pushing athletes to be their best since ‘08• Former #WalkOn • (My prev. twitter acct was hacked and lost recently☹️)

[Zac Brouillette @zbrulet]

Back on twitter after my account was hacked last month and everything related to my twitter account is gone (followers/tweets/etc) so its a fresh 2021 start for me!
Follow along for tweets related to sports performance, motivation, etc.

[Zach Dechant @ZachDechant]

The longer I’m in it the more I realize that simple and consistent is all that most team sport athletes really need.

[Zac Brouillette @zbrulet]

@ZachDechant If all that time & effort spent on unnecess. wt room volume was channeled into skill specific development athletes would actually improve at their sport in college…but it can be difficult for sport/s&c coaches to understand that concept vs just do more sets & reps in wrong areas

[Zac Brouillette @zbrulet]

@MadzHarrisGK These are for “field turf” application, which can be both indoor and outdoors. Anytime there’s plastic grass and the small rubber beads that’s field turf.

[Zac Brouillette @zbrulet]

@MadzHarrisGK @mboyle1959 We are a Nike school, so we use the Nike Superfly 8 Turf or whatever the yearly equivalent is to it for that season

[Zac Brouillette @zbrulet]

@nosotros1972 Yes, we outfit our team in these or a version of these shorter turf cleat

[Zac Brouillette @zbrulet]

@SpeedworksBath @mboyle1959 We wear the Nike turfs as shown below

[Zac Brouillette @zbrulet]

@mboyle1959 You can see the moment ODB’s foot gets “rooted” in the turf for just the split second it takes to drive the force back upstream…and there goes the ACL. Sadly, these injuries are preventable because this same action on grass is harmless. If I’m pro athlete I’m lobbying for grass.

[Zac Brouillette @zbrulet]

@mboyle1959 In my 5 years with Women’s Soccer here at OU I’ve had 3 ACL tears on our indoor turf. Each session was filmed so I went back and looked at the injury frame by frame & it’s the same thing on the 2 non contact acls: longer outdoor cleat gets “rooted” in rubber bits in turf pt 1/2

[Zac Brouillette @zbrulet]

I’ve been prescribing straight leg bounds more than ever this semester with @OU_WSoccer & find them to be a very valuable tool for injury prevention, posterior chain strength, and prepping for sprinting. Easy to coach, implement, & a low risk/high reward exercise!

[Athletics Westchester @AthWestchester]

Recent training session: Straight leg speed bounds. In our system, speed bounds = an acceleration followed by bounds over a distance > 30m. Excellent exercise to develop late race elastic power. Thanks to the late Tony Wells and others for their work in this effective exercise.

[Zac Brouillette @zbrulet]

Reverse engineering a sport is major S&C 🔑
• Energy demands (what work capacities are needed in sport)
• Common mvmnt patterns in sport (varies by sport-study film)
• Common injuries in sport (what are you doing to help prev these)
• Performance Gains (Specific menu items)

[Zac Brouillette @zbrulet]

@RICH_AgilityLab Very insightful info, thanks for sharing. I was curious what test do you use to quantitatively measure decel?

[Zac Brouillette @zbrulet]

We are currently looking for our next Grad Asst Stength & Conditioning Coach at The University of Oklahoma. This position starts in the Fall & will help w. OLY sports.
Please RT & share w. anyone you may think is interested.
The link to apply is below ⬇️
https://t.co/jFM7MNxDWe

[Zac Brouillette @zbrulet]

Recently I’ve been studying the work of longtime Oregon Strength & Conditioning Coach Jim Radcliffe.
Coach Radcliffe is known for developing great athletes & his philosophy of “Bullets over Bowling Balls” puts an emphasis on creating a well rounded athlete.
More videos coming 🔜

[Zac Brouillette @zbrulet]

My training philosophy consists of a wide array of exercise & activity “menu items” & every training cycle (4-10wks~) is a well thought out experiment.
Prior to the start of the experiment I hypothesize what I expect to happen & align & dose the training menu items accordingly.

[Zac Brouillette @zbrulet]

This is why self & team discipline are very important. The “process” is often not very glitzy and glamorous...it’s a lot of long days and quality workouts stacked on top of each other over time...that stack is known as PROGRESS.

[Vern Gambetta @coachgambetta]

Good coaching is not lash & dash. Good training is mundane, day to day it is not very exciting. You must repeatedly do the basics well, keep refining & fine-tuning. Good training has substance, with the focus on need to do activities and methods that will get the athlete better.

[Vern Gambetta @coachgambetta]

Good coaching is not lash & dash. Good training is mundane, day to day it is not very exciting. You must repeatedly do the basics well, keep refining & fine-tuning. Good training has substance, with the focus on need to do activities and methods that will get the athlete better.

[Zac Brouillette @zbrulet]

@JoeAratari It’s been brutal. My old account became some bitcoin superbot and twitter has 0 customer service so if a simple password reset doesn’t fix your problem you’re pretty much out of luck.

[Zac Brouillette @zbrulet]

I’m restarting my Twitter acct from scratch (thx hackers 😡) & will be sharing my thoughts on all things sports performance/sports science on a daily basis.

If you followed me before please help me re-connect w. an engaging group of S&C ppl by RT this & tag your fav. S&C accts!