Load Adaptation: The Training-Performance Puzzle (New York City)

Dr. Gabbett's advanced Training-Performance Puzzle Workshop offers a deeper dive into the factors that contribute to athlete wellbeing and elite performance. In this two-day workshop, participants will learn how to develop training programs so that athletes’ skill and physical performance hold up under the pressure and fatigue of competition. Participants will explore the differences in load capacity between adult and adolescent athletes and gain hands-on experience developing training programs. This workshop draws on the latest scientific information on training load, wellbeing, recovery, skill acquisition and physical demands while also providing ample opportunity for Q&A and to develop ‘real-world’ skills. With a combination of lectures, practical sessions, and group problem-solving activities, this workshop encourages group interaction and collaboration to solve the performance puzzle!

Day 1

Session 1

The Training-Performance Puzzle

This session will provide an overview of the research on training load, fitness, and injury and how these factors fit together to form the “performance puzzle” (Lecture)

Session 2

Principles of Strength and Conditioning

This session will summarize the principles of training for speed, strength, power and aerobic qualities. Various periodization strategies and training program design will be discussed. (Lecture and Group Problem-Solving Session)

Session 3

Needs Analysis

This session describes how practitioners can perform a Needs Analysis, by identifying the Physical Demands of the sport and the Physical Qualities required for performance (Lecture and Practical Break-Out Groups)

S ession 4

Developing Load Capacity in Adolescent Athletes

This session will summarize the latest research evidence relating to training load in adolescents and explore the different factors requiring consideration when training youth athletes. (Lecture and Group Problem-Solving Session)

Session 5

Individualizing the Training Process

This session will discuss the process behind developing individualized training programs within a team environment. (Group Interaction)

Session 6

Final Wrap Up and Questions!

Day 2

Session 1

Hot Topics

Rapid fire discussion and debate on hot topics in rehab and performance (Group Critical Thinking Activity)

Session 2

Skill Acquisition for Clinicians and Coaches

This session will use a range of practical activities to demonstrate how motor learning principles can be applied to athletes in rehabilitation. (Lecture and Practical)

Session 3

Training for Health and Wellbeing

This session will explore training for longevity and methods of maximizing adaptation in ‘time-poor’ athletes (Lecture)

Session 4

Train the Way You Want to Play

This session will explore what the best development programs have in common, and how coaches can plan sessions so that the skills and physical qualities developed in training hold up under competition pressure (Lecture)

Session 5

Building a Program From the Ground Up!

In this session, participants are required to use their knowledge of periodization, to develop micro-, meso-, and macrocycles for their sport of choice (Group Problem-Solving Session)

Session 6

Final Wrap Up and Questions!

Target Audience

This workshop is relevant to physical therapists, physical therapy assistants, and physical therapy students, chiropractors, strength and conditioning coaches, school teachers, coaches and athletic trainers.

Continuing Education Units

This workshop is approved for the following Continuing Education Units (CEUs):

NSCA (for Strength and Conditioning Coaches) - 1.4 CEUs (14 hours)

BOC (for Athletic Trainers) - 14 CEUs/hours

Methods of Learning

This workshop uses a combination of lectures, focus groups, roundtable discussion, practical sessions, formal and informal question and answer sessions to enhance learning.

Informed Consent

All practical components that involve physical activity are completely voluntary. However, as some of these activities involve physical activity (within your individual capacity), participants will be required to complete a Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q) and informed consent.

Conflict of Interest

Gabbett Performance Solutions, event committee and the presenters for this seminar do not have financial or other associations with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

This workshop does not involve the unlabelled use of a product or product under investigational use.

There is no commercial support for this activity.

Host or Publisher Gabbett Performance Solutions