Lessons: Is the problem YOU?
1987 injured. No NCAA champs.
1988 injured. No NCAA champs.
1989 injured. No NCAA Champs.
*Commitment to strength training & flexibility, which I hated.
1990 NCAA champ, US champ, Goodwill Games champ, World Rank #1 200m & 400m
1990-2001 HISTORY
Parents. Please don’t judge a program by week 1. An intelligent program is easy be design in week 1.
Kids that are crippled by the day 1 workout are useless on days 2-4.
Training is an art. Trust the process.
If we want "wins" in practice w/ our players learning + retention we need to teach like the skill is one tree with many roots. The trunk of the tree is the SKILL and the roots are the variations, progressions, and regressions of the one skill. This allows athlete to have context
The temptation for a coach to do a little more, and a little more, versus stopping a practice on time is teaching players a lesson...
You're not organized, you can't be trusted, and their time isn't valued by you.
A lot of these heavier lineman, especially high school underclassmen, need more lunges than they do squats.
Utilize the lunge as a strength mobility combo exercise. Nothing worse than loading the spine, hips, knees and ankles with poor movement.
Sleds, lunges, carries....
What happened to PE? “...only 4 percent of elementary schools, 7 percent of middle schools and 2 percent of high schools have daily PE” yet physical activity is positively correlated to mental wellbeing and academic achievement. @PAAmovewithUS@ACSMNews
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Your young baseball player is going to start strength training
They’re weak, skinny & have never trained before
They don’t need:
- Fancy rotator cuff routines
- Batting/pitching mimicked movements
They need to get brutally strong, explosive & learn to move well… CONSISTENTLY
A BIG part of this happens in the off season when the strength coach sees the team more than the sports coach.
Sport Coaches should communicate frequently w/ their team to encourage off season team training.