Brain Based Warm Ups
By Dan Fichter
Make sure your brain is ready to go.
Over the years I’ll admit I’ve toyed with many different training systems from some pretty great researchers and coaches. And through those years I developed what you could say is my own belief system in performance training. I’m constantly in talks with people close to the most current research in human locomotion and rehabilitation. Like Chris Korfist, I’m a research junkie, trying all types of different exercises, plans, and blocks of work. All, to some degree, have worked to help our athletes reach their true potential. People thrive on the buzzwords of our industry. I’ve used words like stability, mobility, plyometric, eccentric, isometric, periodization, ground-based, CNS, sports-specific, and too many others to name. Regardless of the type of training you use, if you don’t train the brain, none of it makes a difference.
Two basic ideas that coaches miss in their program design from a neural standpoint:
- “Basic strength training deconditions your reflexive system.”
- “Training the brain should truly involve working on stimulating certain areas that will help prime movement and enhance synaptic communication translating into better motor reflex and output.”
At TFC-7, I will show you how to make sure that you get your athlete’s brain more involved in their movement so they will learn faster and perform better. From warm-ups to workouts we need cortical-driven influence woven into every plan.
Dan Fichter
Head Football Coach
Irondequoit H.S., NY
