Functional Strength Training for the T&F Athlete - Boo Schexnayder

by Texas Track & Field Coaches Association

Description

Need new ways to train your Track & Field athletes? Well, you've come to the right place! In this course, Coach Boo Schexnayder reveals multiple different types of lifts and exercises to enhance your athletes' capabilities. He includes things like:

Restoration/Fitness Based Training
Speed/Power Based Training
Planning

On top of all of that, he even has videos of exercises you can teach your athletes now!

Lessons

Getting Started

1 What Are You Accomplishing in the Weight Room 1:41 2 Common Misconceptions 5:46 3 Categories of Strength Training 1:09

Restoration/Fitness Based Strength Training

4 General Strength 4:28 5 Medicine Ball Training 2:21 6 Regional Lifts 4:54

Speed/Power Based Training

7 Example of Olympic Lifts 2:27 8 The Static Lifts 3:41 9 The Ballistic Lifts 2:42

Planning

10 Long Term Weight Training Planning 1:21 11 Weight Session Design 5:06 12 General Preparation Planning 3:50 13 Specific Preparation Planning 3:56 14 Inseason Planning 6:03 15 Compatible Training 1:02

Q&A

16 Q&A 2:58

The Coach

Texas Track & Field Coaches Association

Boo Schexnayder

Coach Boo Schexnayder is a co-founder of SAC and has 39 years of coaching and consulting Track & Field under his belt. He has recently rejoined the staff of LSU in 2017 as the Strength and Throws Coach in the Track & Field program. He had previously served LSU's program for 12 years. He has coached 19 NCAA Champions and has 12 NCAA Championship teams during his collegiate coaching career.

Boo's Champions and Career

Jake Norris: U-20 Championship - Hammer Throw
Walter Davis: Multiple World Championships - Triple Jump
John Moffit: Silver Medal at 2004 Olympics in Athens - Long Jump
He has coached 11 Olympians and has served on coaching staffs for Team USA to the 2003 Pan Am Games in Santo Domingo
He was the jumps coach for the USA Team in Beijing at the 2008 Olympic Games