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episode 90: Plyometrics for GAA Athletes & Coaches with Matt McInnes Watson - Petey Performance Podcast #90
Our final episode of the season is with former international high jumper and expert in plyometric training methods, Matt McInnes Watson.
Matt is a researcher and is currently studying for his PhD in Sports Science. He also has experience working as a PE teacher in the UAE.
Matt has been coaching multi-events in jumps for many years now and is known as The Plyo Guy on social media. He has a great social media presence and has been pushing some really valuable content over the last couple of years.
He just finished his first seminar in Ireland which he tells us about in todays podcast, sharing the things that surprised him about the process of presenting to Irish coaches and athletes.
Matt touched on his vision for his company, Plus Plyos, and where he hopes for it to go in the future.
He then spoke about adding plyometrics into a training programme for team sports athletes the benefits of doing so. Matt picked apart my own process in using plyometrics, COD and speed coaching in a team-setting for Gaelic Games.
We then got into the specifics of plyometrics and choosing the correct plyometric progressions for each athlete in relation to their position of play, in relation to rugby union and other team-sports.
Website: www.plusplyos.com
Instagram: @mcinneswatson
Time-stamps:
07:00 - Public vs private gym environment
09:40 - His seminar in Carlow, Ireland
13:40 - Reflections on the seminar
21:30 - The future of Plus Plyos
31:30 - Reframing coaches’ approaches to coaching plyometrics
37:45 - How to implement plyometrics into a training programme
46:30 - My plyometric coaching process
54:20 - Individualised plyometrics for a specific athlete’s position