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On this weeks episode, I sat down with Brian Kula of Kula sport performance to discuss speed development and how to get the most out of sessions by streamlining processes to align to potentiate and cultivate certain targeted adaptations and skills. The starting point of the conversation is how coach Kula's diverse experience in the realm of athletic development have helped guide the principles that he utilizes to work with a diverse set of clientele ranging from youth athletes all the way to the upper echelon in multiple sporting populations. Coach Kula starts by discussing the fact that all athletes seek adaptation and in order to get desired adaptation they must have target stimulation. The only thing that really varies at a basic level is the intensity and volume a stimulus is implemented with. Coach Kula shares how there are definitely caveats and professional athletes are already well developed, so there is a natural shift in their process to optimizing and priming them for performance at a high level.
Coach Kula shares the three pillars that he utilizes to guide his programming choices and schedule Sprint fast, lift heavy, and rest often. As you listen to the conversation you can hear how these pillars are implemented to help build healthy, strong, fast, and dynamic athletes for a variety of sporting backgrounds. Coach Kula shares how they arrange training on a weekly training plan and how they utilize certain themes to help guide their programming choices. It really helps to keep training targeted and allows for athletes to chase the desired adaptation for a given session and perhaps larger cycle of training. Coach Kula shares how they arrange max velocity sessions from the warm up, drill/skill development processes, sprints, and weight room processes. As we advance the conversation the listener will hear how he varies program prescription and exercise selection between max velocity, change of direction, and acceleration sessions.
We end the conversation by discussing mass specific force and Coach Kula shares the logic behind the system as well as how he implements it as a part of his arsenal. He shares the population that he adopted the system for and how it could be beneficial to various athletic populations when employed at the appropriate time. This is a great episode to examine the logic of how you arrange your session to get the most out of a given skill set or stimulus. It's good on occasion to step back and think about your logic for the selections you make in programming and how they help to build or potentiate the desired adaptation in the immediate and at a later time.