Tyler Shillington - "Improving performance in swimmers and lacrosse players - Are you willing to work hard at the easy stuff?"

Tyler Shillington - "Improving performance in swimmers and lacrosse players - Are you willing to work hard at the easy stuff?"

The S&C Shoptalk Podcast

Episode 2

0:00 –  Introduction of Tyler Shillington

3:00 –  How Tyler came to work with swimmers

5:29 –  S&C for swimmers – they are athletes, let’s treat ‘em that way

8:22 –  KPI’s for swimmers (general to specific development) and early specialization

11:43 – Early vs Late specialization

18:45 – peaking and tapering with swimmers, knowing your athlete

28:26 – mindset of the individual sport athlete vs. team sport athlete

34:19 – Feedback for individual sport vs. team sport athletes (how do athletes evaluate themselves?)

35:15 – Injury patterns in swimmers // Low back issues due to poor stabilization strategies and sequencing

43:42 – How strong do swimmers need to be?

45:48 – Advice for young swimmers in regards to dry land training

51:00 – Lacrosse in Alberta and the level of competition (Iron sharpens Iron) Culture!

1:01:55 – S&C in field lacrosse in the US.

1:06:43 – Perception-Action coupling and true Agility: Read and react //pattern recognition

1:09:31 – The four stages of learning for movement skill acquisition

1:20:09 – It’s all about mindset on defense

1:22:07 – Recovery – are you willing to work hard at the easy stuff?

1:27:10 – If you are the richest guy in a poor neighborhood are you really rich?

 

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