319: Acceleration, Plyometrics and the Transfer to Performance

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May 11, 202634:00Education

In this episode of the Science for Sport Podcast, Richard Graves is joined by Olympic silver medallist and high performance coach Eric Franke. Eric competed for Germany in bobsleigh, winning Olympic silver in Pyeongchang...

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