Tanner Care on Foot Strength, In-Season Training, and Unlocking an Athletes Superpowers

About this episode

Tanner Care discusses his approach to training basketball players, focusing on foot strength and in-season training strategies.

Tanner Care is the Director of Performance for both the BC Lions and the Vancouver Bandits, and over the past couple of months, I’ve really enjoyed learning more about his thought process and approach. So why not bring him on the podcast and dive a little deeper? In this episode of the show, Tanner outlines his comprehensive approach to training basketball players. Whether it’s using force plate assessments to drive his program design, or simply being more effective with our in-season and foot/ankle specific training, I really think there’s something in the episode of everyone. Let’s dive in!   Quotable Quotes: The Natera run-specifics ISO’s were great because it allowed me to broaden my lens, and ultimately provide clarity as to where these athletes are potentially deficient   I want to have a relationship so I can – at the very least – transfer their data and show what we’ve kind of mapped out over of the summer   I talk to my athletes all the time about this notion of poison and antidote. If we look at the sporting demands of basketball, it is a ton of breaking forces, a ton of accels and decels, and that’s…

People in this episode

Host: Mike Robertson

Guest: Tanner Care

Topics covered

• foot strength
• in-season training
• athletic adaptation
• basketball training
• performance assessment

Keywords

• foot strength
• in-season training
• basketball performance
• force plate assessments
• athletic adaptation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BC Lions, Vancouver Bandits

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