Dan Pfaff
Experienced track and field coach and Education Director/Head Jumps Coach at ALTIS, known for decades of coaching at collegiate and national levels and expertise in sprint/jump performance and coaching pedagogy.
Top 3 podcasts with Dan Pfaff
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Nov 20, 2023 • 53min
"Goodfellas" - The Original Godfathers of Sports Performance Part 1 | Dan Pfaff, Michael Boyle, Buddy Morris, and Fergus Connolly
Legendary sports performance professionals Dan Pfaff, Michael Boyle, Buddy Morris, and Fergus Connolly share life lessons, mistakes, and career insights. They discuss the impact of mentors, emotional triggers, influential athletes, personal reflections on failures, seeking guidance, evolving training methods, and the debate on data in sports performance.
Apr 4, 2023 • 32min
Importance of Early Acceleration & Coaching Team Sports with Dan Pfaff
Dan Pfaff, elite sprint and high-performance coach who trained Olympians and NFL stars, shares his approach to speed. He discusses early acceleration, microdosing max-velocity work, resisted runs and the force-velocity tradeoff. He also covers integrating speed into team schedules and managing player stress and recovery.
Jun 2, 2016 • 43min
Pacey Performance Podcast #87 - Dan Pfaff (Head Coach at ALTIS)
In this conversation, Dan Pfaff, a veteran track and field coach and Head Jumps Coach at ALTIS, shares insights from his extensive coaching career. He discusses the balance in training for the 400m and addresses athlete fragility through injury history. Dan emphasizes the importance of communication within the athlete-coach-performance staff triad and the role of therapy in training. He also explores coaching philosophies tailored to individual athlete needs, along with how to apply these strategies to team sports.
