Vern is the Director of Gambetta Sports Training Systems. He has been the a conditioning coach for several MLS teams as well as the conditioning consultant to the US Men's World Cup Soccer team. Vern is the former Director of Conditioning for the Chicago White Sox and New York Mets. He has lectured and conducted clinics in Canada, Japan, Australia and Europe and has authored six books and over one hundred articles related to coaching and sport performance in a variety of sports. He has a BA in teaching with a coaching minor and an MA in Education with an emphasis in physical education from Stanford University.
In order to contextualize and better frame strength training how we define it is very important. My definition is a take-off on Frans Bosch definition of coordination training with resistance,…
Yesterday as I watching Free Solo https://tinyurl.com/y98yt7ra all I could think of is how strong Alex Honnold, as he was suspended by one hand thousands of feet above the ground. Yet I…
Next Monday marks the anniversary of my first day of coaching fifty years ago. I thought this would be an appropriate post to start the new year. Even though it…
The following post is taken from the Foreword I contributed to Martin Bingisser’s new book Training Talk: Conversations with a Dozen Master Coaches. Back in 1987, I took a leap…
Focusing on muscles and isolated movements is mentally convenient. It is very easy to break the body and movements into parts and separate systems and focus on thus parts to…