Case Study #11 - Heavy Strength Training for Olympic Middle Distance Runners - Carlos Balsalobre

Speaker Biography
Professor Carlos Balsalobre is a sports scientist from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain and a strength coach and consultant supporting the famous Athletics Coach Arturo Martin in preparing some of Spain's most successful middle distance runners. Carlos's main interests are exercise performance, strength training and new technologies. He has a PhD. and two MSc's. on High Performance in Sports and he has authored several scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is also. the author of “Strength Training: New Methodological Perspectives”, the first multi-touch sport-sciences iBook in Spanish.
Carlos has worked as a consultant for multiple elite sporting franchises including the NBA. Carlos talks on the topics of exercise performance, strength training and new technologies at international Symposiums, Congresses and private events in Spain, France, Italy, UK and the USA.
Most viewers will be familiar with Carlos as an iOS developer and the creator of the My Jump Lab (a suite of 9 scientifically validated apps to measure performance with hundreds of thousands of downloads all over the world).
Please reach out to Carlos on his website and social media handles below.
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[@dubs4966]

Really like this video. I am in my junior year in America, the most important year for sports recruiting. Strength training is heavily undervalued in non professional environments. It is crazy how much stronger I was after hitting the weights hard for 2 weeks prior to my aerobic base build. I used to be bad at hill workouts, and I now consider them to not always be super painful.

[@parkesperformance3155]

Great video! Lots of valuable information explained in a simple and effective manner. Can go a long way in helping runners and those who help runners fill in the gaps and optimize in their training to support intended running outcomes.

[@dylanmaes1585]

Great video!

[@jorgebarroso3367]

Thank you so much for these. Always really looking forward to them.
Excelente trabajo Dr. Balsabore! Soy un gran aficionado tanto de su trabajo como de la carrera de medio fondo. Vivo en Madrid y me encantaría que me guiaras en mi entrenamiento personal, jaja. Por cierto, ¿qué tipo de test realizaron para medir el grado de stiffness en los corredores?