March 14 |
Get Out There and Get Hormonal! |
Hormones are a lot like eating, some of the food tastes bad, some good, but you need all of it. Sometimes you need more dairy, sometimes you need less grains, but you need every food group in some dose. I have little knowledge about the wide rainbow of hormones secreted from your body, so I will only try to shed light on a couple important items related to exercise and performance. When you #TrainBIG, there are two main types of ...continue reading
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March 4 |
The Pros of Foam Rolling |
A foam roller might be the one injury prevention tool that you can get the best bang for your buck. It is a form of myofascial release, meaning that it loosens or releases the fascia surrounding your muscle giving it more breathing room to stretch or grow. People with chronically tight muscles would have exceeding benefits of foam rolling. The physiology lies in the Golgi Tendon Organs (GTOs) located at the ends of the muscle where ...continue reading
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February 20 |
Training 101: The Warm Up |
Intro disclaimer: there are a multitude of ways to properly warm up depending on experience, sport, etc. The goal of this post is to hopefully broaden your horizon or confirm what you already do or know. Warming up is about as essential as it comes for exercising. The benefits of a proper warm up drastically outweighs any reason you may have for not doing it. The most common purpose of a warm up is to prevent injury as well as prep your ...continue reading
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February 13 |
The Slow Death of Success |
The select few people that have read these Schaudt Out’s know that I always include the hashtag #TrainBIG at some point in the post (solely inspired by Cyrus). It is true that to be great at your sport you need an extraordinary work ethic, but can you #TrainTooBIG? The answer is yes. Overtraining is defined as the excessive frequency, volume, or intensity of training that results in extreme fatigue, illness, or injury. This is not to ...continue reading
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February 5 |
Distance Runners Resistance Training? |
I believe that a properly executed resistance training program does enhance aerobic endurance performances. Running in the simplest form is a ballistic activity, broken up into eccentric and concentric actions with flexion and extension of the hip, knees, and ankles. The resistance (your body weight) must be moved horizontally while striking the ground with forceful impact. The easier the ability to apply greater force to the ground the ...continue reading
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January 27 |
Strength vs Power |
Strength and Power tend to be used interchangeably throughout the athletic world. The goal of this post is to clearly define both terms and determine the differences between them. Let’s start with strength… By definition strength is “the maximal force that a muscle or muscle group can generate at a specified velocity”. The key words here are “maximal force” and “specified velocity”. Woman #1 that can squat a 700lb horse ...continue reading
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January 13 |
Stronger bones |
Want strong bones when you're older? Exercise now! Activities such as weight lifting put a healthy strain on your bones that promotes growth in the area of strain. For example, when you perform repeated deadlifts over a period of time, the bones that bear a significant portion of the weight (tibia, fibula, femur, etc.) will slightly bend under the pressure. The bone recognizes the force and begins to ossify, sending bone-building ...continue reading
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January 9 |
Element of Surprise |
Elite athletes can experience a number of emotions during competition, but surprise is not one of them. The element of surprise is usually the difference between a win and a loss in strategy sports such as football, basketball and soccer, or a good or bad performance in technical sports such as swimming, golf, and track and field. Elite athletes do not get surprised during competition due to their training nature. They train for all ...continue reading
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January 1 |
Body Types |
Did you hit puberty early or late in your adolescent stage? Your answer is surprisingly correlated with the body type that you have. There are generally three body types, mesomorphic (muscular and broader shoulders), endomorphic (rounder and broader hips) and ectomorphic (slender and tall). Adolescents that enter puberty earlier normally develop into either mesomorphic or endomorphic adults while later puberty development indicates ...continue reading
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Coach Brian Schaudt is the newest member of my training team, and is responsible for my sprint and jumps workouts.
Coach Schaudt was a teammate of mine while at the University of Oregon, and was a conference scorer in the triple jump and long jump, which helped our team win 7 conference championships in a row.
Since he has graduated Coach Schaudt has been coaching at the University of Oregon under head coach Robert Johnson and assistant coach Curtis Taylor, developing the sprints, jumps, and hurdlers. Most recently Coach Schaudt just became the head coach of the New Hope Christian College track and field team, and works as the strength and conditioning coach for their men’s and women’s basketball team as well.
Because of Coach Schaudt’s experience on the track, his work with some of the top Division 1 coaches, and his passion for the sport he is constantly giving me great insight, which has made me a better athlete and can make you a better athlete too.