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Derek Hansen has an extensive background in making athletes faster.

A pupil of the infamous sprinting coach Charlie Francis, Hansen has followed suit by working

with some of the highest performers in the world of sport.

While Derek's knowledge of speed science is unparalleled, he refuses to hold tight to

traditional ways of training. He believes that it's a coaching obligation to always be

incorporating new information and potentially cutting-edge research findings into your programming.

Derek strikes an intelligent balance and training. His style reflects a

responsible and simple approach while still allowing flexibility for an individual's inherent potential.

As Derek explains, trial and error is the most valuable feedback within the practice of coaching.

Tune in for numerous anecdotes that touch on the volume versus intensity debate. As we know, more isn't necessarily

better. It's just more. This is episode 212.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages. Children of all ages. This is Luke with power athlete. We have Tex, say hi, Tex. And we have Mr. Whisper, silent but deadly, John well-born. If the pre-show is any indicator of what the hell you're going to get, it's going to be an earful of John. Do you not feel like talking today again, John? No, I didn't feel like talking on the drive over. But I was also up at 5 a.m. and I think I'm on like my seventh double shot of espresso. There we go. As you guys know, my little boy's teething. And so he's sleeping in about three hour intervals. I don't think they know, but we definitely know. I've seen that kid drooling. Oh, it's terrible. I keep changing his shirt. He sees drooling everywhere.

But I was up at 5 and I've been drinking coffee ever since in anticipation of this podcast.

So there you go, listeners.

John Wellborn will not be talking on this very special episode of the premier podcast in strength and conditioning.

Conditioning.

Let's just get jump right into it.

We have great pre-show chat. We got Derek Hansen on the line. I'm going to give like four bullet points, Derek. And then you're going to hand it off and tell everybody what the hell that means, right? So your founder and primary contributor, strength, power, speed.com. I'm feeling people, if you want to learn a little more after your mind is blown after this, That's a good place to start.

But, man, you've worked with Olympic athletes national athletes up in Canada you're involved in

NCAA techs cross paths with you at the play summit and i think what what was music to our ears is

you have very similar mentors and kind of guiding thought process to empowering individuals with speed

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