#143 - Goat Movements in Conditioning

Legion Strength & Conditioning Podcast

One common issue for athletes with some experience in their sport is struggling with 1–2 specific movements in grunt-style conditioning workouts. Even after extensive effort to develop these movements, they can still be a weak point, especially in competition or qualifier workouts.

How can we help athletes improve at these movements? Should we focus on mastery, or reframe progress by mitigating their impact in competition to make them less of a weakness?

Adjusting technique can provide quick wins, but the same stumbling blocks often reappear over time. In this episode, we discuss different approaches to structuring training progressions, strategies to keep athletes motivated, and what we can realistically expect when working on these "goat" movements in conditioning.

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Show Notes:

• [1:00] Goat movements in conditioning
• [2:00] Identifying why these movements are difficult and being realistic with progress
• [4:20] Using variations to give athletes more movement options
• [6:20] Learning how to recover on these goat movements
• [8:00] Don't redline with these movements
• [10:45] How to measure progress with these movements
• [14:00] Setting expectations for athletes
• [17:00] Assessing movement or technique
• [19:00] Polarised exposures of movements
• [22:00] Delaying the breaking point in the movement