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Episode 45: Dan Pfaff

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Coach Pfaff delves into the role of the weight room in speed development, special strength, and addressing strengths and weaknesses. He covers a variety of topics including cueing, team sport relationship to track and field, planning and organization, and static stretching.

Dan Pfaff is the Head Jumps and Multi-Events Coach at ALTIS. He is the former Coaching Education Curriculum Chair for both the United States Track & Field Coaches Education Schools and the NACAC Caribbean Basin Project. During his coaching career, he has worked at the University of Texas at Austin, LSU, UTEP, and Wichita State. Coach Pfaff has coached 29 NCAA individual national champions and 150 All-Americans, and he has been a lead staff member on teams that have won 17 NCAA National Team Championships—15 women and two men.

Dan has served on five Olympic Games coaching staffs in five different countries and nine World Championships staffs for six different countries. He earned a bachelor’s degree in science education from Wright State University and an M.Ed. from the University of Houston.

In this episode, Coach Pfaff delves into the role of the weight room in speed development, special strength, and addressing strengths and weaknesses. He covers a variety of topics including cueing, team sport relationship to track and field, planning and organization, and static stretching.

In this podcast, Coach Dan Pfaff discusses with Joel:

  • The role of higher intensity barbell and Olympic lifts in building speed and power.
  • Comparing traditional lifts to special weight room movements in speed development.
  • Internal and external cues.
  • His most recent thoughts on planning and organizing training sessions.
  • The role of static stretching in a program.
  • His thoughts on the transfer of weight room strength to speed.
  • Using analogies and storytelling to increase coaching efficiency.

Podcast total run time is 43:21.

Dan can be found online at ALTIS. He also wrote about cultivating champion performers for SimpliFaster.

Keywords: speed development, strength and power, cue, program planning

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  • Mark Hoover

    Mark Hoover works for SimpliFaster in a coaching and technical consulting capacity and is the Director of Athletic Performance at Metrolina Christian Academy in Indian Trail, North Carolina. Coach Hoover started his career coaching football at both the high school and NCAA levels. After spending nearly 20 years in the dual role of sport coach/strength coach (including 11 years as a head football coach), he made the transition to full-time strength and conditioning in 2015.

    Coach Hoover holds bachelor’s degrees in communications and physical education and is fully certified in K–12 social studies and physical education. He is currently pursuing an MS in Exercise Science. He is a USAW Level 1 and 2 Certified Advanced Sports Performance Coach, as well as an NASM Performance Enhancement Specialist.

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