Episode 24

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Published on:

9th Dec 2021

EvelChat #24 “We’re Going To Start Off Like This Are We?”: A Chat with Stu McMillan.

Derek & Stu go at it again...

Topics:

  • Derek’s new goggles
  • Stu’s modelling career
  • The (at times) ugly necessity of a social media presence in online education 
  • https://simplifaster.com
  • The infamous Shackleton podcast
  • What’s new at Altis
  • The Altis Foundation for HBCU
  • Stu’s thoughts of the latest EvelChats
  • Dale Stevo’s training methodology
  • Harvey & looking for commonalities when comparing methods 
  • Stu’s thoughts on the Nike Super Spikes question from twitter
  • Is there evidence for “Surfing the Curve”
  • Max Speed / Max Strength & individual needs & approaches
  • Transference vs Relatedness in exercise and intensity selection
  •  Bondarchuk & Transfer
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About the Podcast

EvelChat
The EveltrakSport.com Coaching Podcast with Derek Evely
A Podcast about Coaching, from specialist turn-ons to general piss-offs… & everything in between.

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Derek Evely

Derek Evely has taken a career path unique in Olympic sport. As an athletics coach, he has coached professionally at all levels along the developmental continuum and is widely regarded as a foremost expert in both youth development programming and elite training methodology. As a coach he has produced three World Junior Championship medalists, two of whom went on to win Olympic medals. He was the development coach for Gary Reed (IAAF World Championships 800m Silver Medalist), Dylan Armstrong (Beijing Olympic Shot Put Bronze Medalist) and Sophie Hitchon (2016 Olympic Hammer Throw Bronze Medalist). He has been a national team coach for both Britain and Canada to every major championship on the global calendar including the Olympic Games, IAAF World Championships and European Championships. He was a High Performance Training Centre Director for British Athletics leading into the 2012 Olympic Games where he coached the youngest athlete on the British athletics team (Hitchon) to her first Olympic final. From 2005 to 2009 he was the Sport Science Manager for the Canadian Athletics Coaching Center. He consults and coaches with federations and individuals worldwide on all aspects of developmental and high performance programming. He currently lives in Chicago with his wife and three teenagers.