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Six expert video lessons with Professor JB Morin and Dr Damian Harper. Explore acceleration and deceleration biomechanics, profiling, assessment and training, with applied learning companions and a CPD certificate.

What will you get?
  • Six expert video lessons
  • Professor JB Morin: acceleration
  • Dr Damian Harper: deceleration
  • Biomechanics and movement demands
  • Profiling and monitoring
  • Horizontal deceleration assessment
  • Training applications
  • Applied learning companions
  • End-of-course CPD certificate
THE ADP · EXPERT-LED COURSE

From the first step to the final brake

Build a stronger understanding of how athletes accelerate and decelerate, then apply that knowledge to profiling, assessment and training decisions. Learn from Professor JB Morin and Dr Damian Harper in two connected strands.

6 expert video sessionsApplied learning companionsCPD certificate
PROFESSOR JB MORIN

Acceleration

Explore sprint acceleration demands and underlying qualities, approaches to profiling and monitoring, and training applications.

DR DAMIAN HARPER

Deceleration

Understand horizontal deceleration demands, explore assessment choices and consider how to progress training.

What you can take into practice

  • Frame better questions before choosing a sprint or deceleration test.
  • Interpret profiling and monitoring results with the limits of the method in mind.
  • Connect the demands of a movement to a training objective and progression.
  • Use The ADP learning companions in all six expert lessons to review key language and work through applied questions.

Who is it for? Sport scientists, strength and conditioning coaches, performance coaches and rehabilitation practitioners who want to connect acceleration and deceleration research with decisions in their setting. The course includes a welcome lesson, six expert video lessons and an end-of-course CPD certificate.

Explore inside · The ADP learning preview

Fast off the mark. What happens when it is time to stop?

Try a short example of the applied questions that accompany the expert video lessons. Connect the movement demands to an assessment question before choosing a training response.

Sample scenario · fictional athlete

An athlete who accelerates well but struggles to brake

A footballer performs well in short straight-line sprints. During a planned sprint-to-stop task, the coach notices several extra steps before the athlete settles into a controlled stop. The coach is considering adding more braking work.

Pause before prescribing: What do you need to know about the task, the athlete and the consistency of the observation?

Try a knowledge check

Which is the most useful next step?

  1. Assume the sprint result also describes deceleration ability.
  2. Prescribe the same high-intensity braking programme for every athlete with extra stopping steps.
  3. Clarify the entry speed, stopping instruction and conditions; repeat a consistent task and review the athlete’s movement, training history and feedback.
Reveal the answer and reasoning

C. Start by establishing what the observation means. A sprint result alone does not describe the athlete’s performance in a stopping task. Differences in approach speed, instructions, surface and execution can make attempts difficult to compare.

A consistent assessment and the athlete’s context help you define the training objective and an appropriate progression. One observation cannot identify the limiting quality or justify a specific loading prescription. This is an example of The ADP’s practitioner reasoning, rather than an individual diagnosis or programme.

Build the reasoning across the course

Understand the demands

Explore acceleration and horizontal deceleration biomechanics through the two expert strands.

Ask better assessment questions

Connect profiling and monitoring choices to the question you want to answer.

Apply and review

Use the learning companions to reflect on training objectives and progression in your environment.

A shortened teaching example for prospective learners. The full course includes six expert video lessons with Professor JB Morin and Dr Damian Harper, applied learning companions and a CPD certificate.

About Professor Jean-Benoit Morin – Full Professor at the University of Saint-Etienne

Jean-Benoit (JB) Morin is Full Professor at the University of Saint-Etienne (France), and a member of the Interuniversity Laboratory of Human Movement Biology (LIBM). He is also an associate researcher with the Sports Research Institute New-Zealand (SPRINZ) at Auckland University of Technology. He obtained a Track & Field Coach National Diploma in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Human Locomotion and Performance in 2004. JB’s field of research is mainly human locomotion and performance, with specific interest in running biomechanics and maximal power movements (sprint, jumps). He is a research director, and has edited a textbook (Biomechanics of Training and Testing, 2018) and published over 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He is also a consultant for professional sports groups in soccer, rugby, sprint, and other power-speed sports. He practiced soccer for 10 years, practiced and coached track and field (middle distance and 400m hurdles) for eight years, and he now enjoys trail running and triathlon.

About Dr Damian Harper – Lecturer in Coaching and Performance at the University of Central Lancashire

Damian is an academic, practitioner and consultant in human sports performance. He is currently a Lecturer in Coaching and Performance within the Institute of Coaching and Performance at the University of Central Lancashire where he supervises students on the Professional Masters and Doctorate in Elite Performance. His research is focused on factors that influence the health and performance of human movement, with a particular focus on understanding high-intensity actions, such as acceleration, deceleration and change of direction. Damian has consulted with numerous sporting organisations and governing bodies and is internationally recognised for the impact his research has had on enhancing applied “real-world” sports performance practices. This has included development of the 10-to-5 repeated jump test for the assessment of reactive strength and more recently, through his PhD work, the development of new approaches to profile and train horizontal deceleration. Damian has now published numerous peer-reviewed journals focused on horizontal deceleration and consulted with major national and international organisations around approaches to assess and develop deceleration abilities, including the development of the ‘braking strength’ framework for the English Football Association.

Module Information

Sprint Acceleration Biomechanics Part 1: Acceleration demands and Underlying Qualities – Prof. J-B Morin
Sprint Acceleration Biomechanics Part 2: Profiling and Monitoring – Prof. JB Morin
Sprint Acceleration Biomechanics Part 3: Training Applications – Prof. JB Morin
Deceleration Biomechanics part 1: Determinants of Horizontal Deceleration – Dr Damian Harper.
Deceleration Biomechanics Part 2: Assessment of Horizontal Deceleration Ability – Dr Damian Harper
Deceleration Biomechanics Part 3: Training Horizontal Deceleration Ability – Dr Damian Harper

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