Elliott A.

I have had the pleasure of coaching a wide variety of individuals. I have conducted performance training with high school athletes, nfl combine athletes, and special needs youth athletes. I also enjoy coaching adults with a focus on functional strength, and giving my best abilities to help them find a stronger version of themselves.
I am a young coach, and have had the please of coaching at athletic republic of Orange County, a sports performance facility is Orange County. I hold a CSCS certification, a speed and agility coach certification through athletes acceleration,as well as a level 3 sports performance certification through athletic republic. I earned my bachelors degree in communication studies from Chapman University, which has given me a strong foundation of relationship/team building and leadership skills. Finally I am currently finishing up a masters in science of coaching and athletic administration (MSAA) through Concordia University of Irvine.

I grew up participating in a plethora of high school sports including hockey, wrestling, football, beach volleyball, and ski racing. I was talented in each and considered myself a true "scrapper" when I look back at my competitive strategies. In college I played football at the division III level, and earned several acknowledgements regarding my determination and devotion to training, and maintaining a strong team atmosphere.
I honestly was never a standout athlete, but my effort and heart is what lead me to finding success in my sports.

For this example I am going to give you a training session with a high school aged , division 1 bound indoor volleyball player.

At first I check in with her, asking about how she is feeling, any minor injuries, if she is fatigued or stressed at all. I do this to asses her readiness for training different aspects of training, and will base our session on her state. I may also do measurable techniques such as a jump or grip strength to also measure her readiness (auto regulation protocol).

She tells me she feels great, and is in a good mood, and her jump test tells me she is producing power close to her vertical PR. This tells me her CNS is in a great state to train.

We would start on the foam roll to induce some "creep" in her muscles and well as some mayofascial release followed with some static corrective stretching movements, which would then lead into a dynamic warm up.

The goal of the session would be build around improving her vertical power, and I would include ankle and hip monilia as well as knee stability excercises in our warm up as pre hab. Then we would focus on landing mechanics before getting into the various jump and plyo metric movements ( you would never get into a plane if the pilot did not have his landing license).

The explosive portion of the workout would include a wide variety of movements, and use of different equipment and medballs . All of which I constant preach for quality reps over quantity so I would most likely use a 5 sets of 3 volume range for that days movements

Form here we would trickle into our resistance/ strength portion of the workout. I use either upper/lower splits of push/pull depending on the consistency of training.
For this example we can say it was a push day. We would likely use a squat variation (box perhaps), and maybe including dynamic effort reps ( chains, bands, contrast) with an emphasis on strength. Also I enjoy the cal dietz triphasic models to whisk we may use a variety of tempos depending on the training block.
We would then follow suit with an upper body push movement matching the same framework. Furthermore trickle into auxiliary movements that support push mechanics, and with this we usually drop intensity and will add volume. Our session would maybe finish in a circuit that would include some sort of core (anti rotation, anti extension, Anti lateral flexion, or rotational) and maybe some metabolic capacity work. At the end I will give the athlete a down regulation/ cool down excercise to get the athlete out of the sympathetic state (fight or flight) and get them into more of a parasympathetic state (rest and digest) to allow for maximum recovery timing before the next workout , and give them some nutrition/ recovery homework for them to do before the next session.

All of my training will vary depending on the readiness of the individual to allow them to achieve the maximum benifits of that training session