Episode 7

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Published on:

3rd Feb 2021

EvelChat #7: "The Kid". A Chat with Les Spellman

Les Spellman is a Strength & Conditioning, Performance & Speed Development expert. He is also owner of Spellman Performance, a company that helps athletes from all levels and areas of sport achieve their goals. He works with USA Rugby, USC Lacrosse & various NFL players. He also runs one of the most successful NFL Combine training & preparatory programs in the United States.

Topics:

Multi-tasking, attention issues & coaching, coaching life vs. ‘normal’ life, online strength vs. speed programming, the traditional views of speed training & technique across sports, gimmick models vs. research models, developing speed with young athletes vs. elite athletes, the importance of postures & mechanics in acceleration, the relationship between mechanics & speed progressions, the unique approach needed to develop acceleration and speed in team & non-track sports, acceleration vs. max velocity in non-track sports, working with multi-sport athletes, loading parameters & program design in speed training, cueing & teaching speed workouts, communicating cues with athletes, strength training with youth athletes & the contrast to speed development, long term strength progressions, LTAD & PHV in youth training and much, much more.

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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.