Anaerobic speed reserve; maximising training prescription (part 1)

This week’s guest on the Pacey Performance Podcast is Gareth Sandford, a researcher and physiologist for Athletics Canada, working with the Canadian Sports Institute, and the University of British Columbia. He previously earned his master’s in Sport Science and Physiology, where he did a year’s placement at Chelsea Football Club. He has also coached in the UK, US and in a tribal community in India.

Gareth is someone that you as a coach need to be listening to due to his deep knowledge of conditioning methods. This week’s podcast is a must watch/listen as Gareth talks about the anaerobic speed reserve, training models, athlete profiling (and its advantages) and tempo running as a conditioning tool for team sport athletes.
This episode is for all athletes, practitioners and conditioning coaches who yearn for success. All you have to do is hit the play button to learn all this and much more.

This week’s Topics:

2:07 Topics learned from his world tour when working towards his PhD
5:39 What is the anaerobic speed reserve?
7:14 The impacts of coaches exposing their athletes to anaerobic speed reserve with examples
10:34 Critical speed and what practitioners need to do to be able to look across the whole intensity speed continuum
12:38 Different trainings models, strengths, and limitations they have, and how you choose the most appropriate for your athletes
14:11 Important things to note as a coach when choosing the training model that works best for your athletes
22:13 How profiling your athlete can get them to the elite sport continuum
24:57 Tests you can do as a coach to help you do the best profiling of your athletes
29:39 The critical speed testing model and advantages and the challenges of using it
35:49 The types of models that you can use in developing athletes with aerobic qualities like footballers
40:50 Tempo running and ways in which a coach can use it successfully to train his or her athletes