Today's podcast features Mike Bruno. Mike is the Assistant Director of Olympic Sports Performance at Clemson University. Mike has both a sports performance and massage therapy background, with an approach influenced heavily by Bill Hartman’s biomechanical model. He has worked with a wide variety of sports, including track and field, and currently oversees golf and tennis at Clemson.
Human movement is composed of more than just muscle and neural signals. It is also heavily influenced by athletes’ strategies to move pressure through their unique skeletal structures. By understanding the role of structure on speed and movement abilities, we can also better understand ideal training modalities and progressions for each athlete.
On today’s episode, Mike speaks on speed and power training through the lens of pressure management and skeletal structure. He talks about different structural archetypes and their needs in the weightroom, as well as how these archetypes lend to various performance outputs on the field of play (focusing on track speed and performance). With many anecdotes from the world of track and field, this episode draws numerous links between strength, speed and individual training factors.
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Timestamps
2:01- Optimizing Athletic Performance through Biomechanics
8:19- Optimizing Speed Through Internal Body Dynamics
11:33- Dynamic Insights from Athlete Force Plate Analysis
16:48- Optimizing Jumping Performance with Pressure Techniques
25:34- Optimizing Athletic Performance Through Heavy Bilateral Squatting
27:47- Structural Analysis for Tailored Athletic Training Programs
30:09- Track and Field Performance Based on Pelvic Adaptations
39:21- Infrastructural Angles Influence Athletic Training Specialization
40:53- Structural Archetypes: Tailoring Training for Performance
48:18- Individual Structure Influence on Training Optimization
1:01:33- Enhanced Athletic Performance through Triphasic Training
1:09:03- Long-Term Physical Qualities Enhancement in Athletes
1:21:26- Managing Pressures and Gravity in Track Training
Quotes
(12:19) "(In a vertical jump) The faster they drop, the quicker it would pop up." - Mike Bruno"
(14:04) "If you take it like five singles, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop is going to be different on the pelvic floor and give you a different output than a banded oscillatory squat." - Mike Bruno"
(19:20) “The higher your VO2 max, the thinner your diaphragm, which I thought was a very interesting thing, but it lends on the like. Wrestlers are the highest. All they're doing is pressurizing and they're playing like hand fighting. That's all they're doing is being. Judo was the second one. Sprinters were the third one” - Mike Bruno
(31:34) "Your structure dictates quite literally everything." - Mike Bruno
(37:06) "The fluid hit the top and it suspended them. So if you ever watch someone jump and they jump unbelievable, it looks like they just kind of get suspended up there. It's like, oh, that's the fluid hitting the top." - Mike Bruno (00:37:19)"
(46:33) "One of the best things, you know, is if you don't do complexes, especially with an indicator or something where you're seeing the result, you miss the opportunity to get a lot of connections." - Joel Smith
(1:00:40) “A lot of times in my setting, I have athletes that come in, they have their, their connective tissues too stiff and it doesn't store at all. And so you're like, you're really powerful, but we can't get into good positions on the track or we can't...