BRITT DUCROZ - DIVING S&C COACH FOR TEAM GB & PRIVATE #132
About this episode
Manny Silveira interviews Britt Ducroz about the intricacies of strength and conditioning for elite divers and the unique demands of Olympic training.
We sit down with Britt Ducroz—private S&C consultant, four-time Olympic cycle coach with Great Britain Diving (Rio, Tokyo, Paris, LA), and former college director—to talk about what it actually takes to make elite athletes 1% better, why the consulting side changes everything, and how to build a coaching eye that no data can replace. In this Playbook: Wringing out a dried cloth: When your athletes have been exposed to everything, percentages stop working. Britt's solution — go deeper into force production. Using VBT beyond just velocity, he tracks rate of force at 100 and 200 milliseconds to find where athletes are losing output, and builds back from there. Power production wins. Force absorption and transfer is the separator. Diving's hidden demands: Everyone talks about the jump. Britt calls it the dessert of an eight-course meal. The real work is entry: athletes are hitting the water at speed, on their hands, in an overhead position — over and over. His approach: heavy investment in shoulder stability, mid-to-lower trap, subscap, cervical-thoracic (CT) spine range, and absorb-and-transfer capacity. If the CT range drops below a certain marker, they're not going off 10…
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