Let's Talk Training - Introductory Post!
Hey everyone! My name is Joe Pedulla, strength & conditioning coach at the University of Oklahoma for softball and women's golf. This is my third year at OU, and I also own Pedulla Performance LLC (you can find me @pedullaperformance on instagram) where I mentor over 180 other strength & conditioning coaches in a community of my own. I also train professional athletes 1-1, mainly within baseball and softball. My areas of expertise are within speed development for team sports, periodization and training strategies (especially within sports involving almost constant practice and/or competition like softball), and technologies such as Hawkin and VALD force plates, Catapult GPS, motorized resisted sprint training devices, and velocity based training devices. Over the years I have built several frameworks and holistic approaches to athlete profiling, archetyping, individualization and progression. I invite you to ask questions pertaining to the aforementioned topics, and anything else that may be on your mind relating to team sport athlete development. Some of the issues I see within high performance are inappropriate training volumes, misguided belief systems relating to power development, and a surface level understanding of how to integrate technology in a way that both seamlessly integrates with our workflows, and also results in actionable decisions that yield high impact; we want to make good use of our data. I look forward to having some great conversations here!
