Podcast 23 – Talking warm-ups and concussions with David Gil from VERT

David Gil has become a frequent conversational partner of mine going back to the Coaching Conversations original series . I had him talk with members of the Medaille women’s team about preparing for preseason . He was on with a strength coach from Florida State to talk about building athlete work capacity . And it started with him joining the head coach of James Madison to talk about using performance data in coaching . The foundation of this conversation is the subject of warm-ups, whether pre-match or pre-practice. Because David had recently been looking at (and talking about) some concussion data, that ended up being a thread of our talk as well. In the episode David refers to the work of Dr. Kerry MacDonald – Director of Sports Science & Sports Medicine for Volleyball Canada – with regards to the concussion topic. Although it’s not on that subject, here’s a conversation David and Kerry had on training periodization challenges . And there’s that old blog post that stimulated the “controversy” that motivated David to email me: Are your warm-ups wasting valuable time? David also joked about some conversations we’ve had before about using the mile run as a fitness test, which i something I’ve also blogged about in The mile run for volleyball players . Support the podcast by becoming a patron . You can find a complete list of the initial series of Coaching Conversations here . The post Podcast 23 – Talking warm-ups and concussions with David Gil from VERT appeared first on Coaching Volleyball .