This week’s guest is Jeff Moyer, owner of Dynamic Correspondence (DC) Sports Training in Pittsburgh area, Pennsylvania. Jeff is a relentless learner with great knowledge in a variety of training methods.
Jeff has experience with some relatively new, but very effective training ideals, such as the 1×20 strength system, modern research and philosophy on cueing and skill acquisition, vision training, and more.
The team that squats and benches the most doesn’t win the game. The team that has talent, and trains in a way that transfers properly to the field of play will win. Of course, being strong is of huge importance, but how do you get strong in a way that leaves maximal adaptation to other vital athletic qualities? Also, how do we engage the brain in the way it might be processing information on the field in regards to our basic vision and movement skills?
Fortunately, Jeff is a guy who has found a lot of ways to train that transfer from the gym to the field, particularly in the areas of skill acquisition and vision, not to mention an efficient strength training ideal that leaves athletes jumping higher and running faster.
To be completely honest, with my own tennis players, if I had a choice between increasing their vertical jump or improving some agility test, or… increasing their vision and ability to see and process the tennis ball in a variety of situations, I’d pick vision hands down.
This talk between Jeff and me is great for strength and sport coaches alike.
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Key Points:
- How Jeff got introduced to, and uses the 1×20 strength training system for greater performance effects vs. traditional training programs
- Thoughts on the mechanism of how the 1×20 program works
- Jeff’s thoughts on the biggest sprint technique deficiencies in his athletic populations
- The proper way to perform a glute-ham raise for maximal athletic performance
- Jeff’s philosophy on getting technical changes in athletic technique and performance
- Using sensory techniques in improving skill acquisition
- Differences with internal/external focus on cueing
- How to work with and coach left brain vs. right brain athletes
- What got Jeff into vision training, and what kind of results can coaches expect
- How coaches can predict eye weaknesses based on frequent errors of players in vision based sports
- Resources for coaches interested in vision training and performance
“The 1×20 builds capillary density, and it strengthens connective tissues more”
“If I can get you strong with 1 set of 20, 1 set of 14, or 1 set of 8, why would I do 3 sets of 10?”
“The 1×20 is a continuum of strength (not just endurance); I can tell you doing 1 set of 20, in the 8-12 workout range, kids average 5-6” in their broad jump and 1-2” in vertical jump without doing a single jumping exercise”
“There is a separate threshold for adaptation than there is for recovery”
“(Regarding monitoring vs. data) If you concentrate solely on results, then the recovery will take care of itself”
“The biggest thing I see with youth athletes is, they run on their heels man”
“Anyone who has done the GHR the way Dr. Yessis performs it, they’ve never had hamstring injuries”
“I’ve never assessed or met an athlete who complains of knee pain that runs on the balls of their feet (doesn’t run on their heels), as well as shin splints”
“Bent knee calf raises for dorsiflexion is one of the most underrated exercises out there”
“The three key (special) exercises according to Verkhoshansky and Yessis are pushoff ankle exercises, knee drive, and pawback”
“They need the sensory information of what’s wrong, the old way of doing it, and they need the sensory information of how it feels to perform the correct technique, use their own words to describe how it feels”
“We will use a 40 question test to measure information processing; are they left brain or right brain, and how do we cue them?”
“After vision training, kids see the ball better, you see less errors, better decisions”
“For fast moving object sports, like hockey, baseball, softball, tennis, the use of the eye track brock string has helped tremendously with assessing athletes convergence and binocularity. It doesn’t just check vision, it checks how the brain is taking vision from the eyes”
“If I have a baseball player who is a right handed batter, their right eye perceives the (brock) string to be higher, the left to be lower, they perceive things to be closer rather than farther away. I know they have a tendency to hit pop flies but they are better at fastball hitters than off-speeds”
“You’ll see guys playing sports only taking information in from one eye. How much better could they be if they were taking in information from both eyes!”
“What if an athlete is nearsighted, and you are having them focus on the front side of the rim while shooting?”
“I work on the three B’s, Brain, Behaviour, and the Body”
Show Notes, Links and Videos:
Dr Yessis Glute Ham Raise
Dr Yessis Knee Drive
Dr Yessis Paw Back
Yessis Doctoral Dissertation on Rep Ranges and the Strength-Endurance Continuum
Relationships Between Varying Cominations of Resistacne and Repetitions
This video isn’t one of Jeff’s but it’s a basic sample of how a Brock String is used for vision training
About Jeff Moyer:
Jeff Moyer is the owner of Dynamic Correspondence Sports Training, whose motto is, “We Build Better Athletes.” At DC Sports Training, athletes work on the physical, mental and visual aspects to the sports. Their goal is to deliver the athletes of the greater Pittsburgh area the highest, most efficient results year after year of training with us. We will exhaust our means in order for our athletes to achieve the highest results, and to create a system model that will develop our athletes both physically and intellectually. Education must be the road to which will help us set this standard. Our results will be the vehicle which to drive us.
Jeff graduated in 2004 from Hartwick College where he was a two sport athlete (Football & Track & Field). Jeff has been a sport coach (Basketball & Football) at the youth, JV, Varsity and College level for football for over 10years. Jeff has been in the strength in conditioning industry for over a decade, having worked in the medical, private, team, high school and collegiate settings, training clients from youth development, to rehabilitation and sport performance.
Jeff has a relentless passion for all things physical preparation. His pedagogy is heavily influenced by Eastern Bloc sport science, while apprenticing under Dr. Michael Yessis and Yosef Johnson of Ultimate Athlete Concepts. Jeff has also been fortunate enough to extensively study with and work with Dr. Natalia Verkhoshansky, Mike Woicik of the Dallas Cowboys, Louie Simmons of Wesitside Barbell and Fellowship under Dave Tate of EliteFTS.
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