The Complete Owner's Maual for Team Sports Conditioning
Presentation Synopsis
The objective of this presentation will be to provide a comprehensive and systematic operating system, or owner's manual, for designing conditioning workouts for team sports. The guidelines and parameters presented will allow coaches to easily and safely design workouts that target specific physiological adaptations, and then organize those workouts into an appropriate periodization plan. Attendees we also learn how to select the proper conditioning test protocols to assess fitness, and how to create metabolic profiles for their athletes to individualize fitness prescription.
Jason Dierking, MS, MSCC, CSCS, USAW
Jason Dierking currently serves as Assistant Director of Sports Performance at the University of Louisville. In this role he works directly with men's and women's swimming, men's soccer, and men's golf.
Prior to Louisville, Dierking served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Indiana University from 2001-2005. He also was a graduate assistant strength coach at Indiana from 1998-2001. During the summer of 2000, Dierking worked as the strength and conditioning intern at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, NY, where he helped train athletes that were preparing for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
As the energy systems specialist on the Sports Performance staff, Dierking has advanced the use of innovative testing and tracking procedures for metabolic fitness, including VO2max testing, blood lactate analysis, and GPS tracking. He has become an industry leader in the area of heart rate training and conditioning, and has spoken at several regional and national clinics and conferences on the topic.
He has trained NCAA Champions, Olympic gold medalists, the 2012 Boston Marathon champion Wesley Korir, and numerous athletes that have gone on to professional careers in baseball, soccer and golf.
Dierking earned his master's degree in exercise physiology from Indiana University and a bachelor's degree in adult physical fitness from Eastern Kentucky University, where he also played baseball for the Colonels.
Jason is a competitive runner and triathlete, and is a marathon finisher, a two-time Ironman triathlon finisher, and a 10-time half-Ironman triathlon finisher.
