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Great question @Tony_Villani_ in my experiences (and you’ve been in the trenches longer than I have) NFL athletes are generally producing greater absolute force outputs and eccentric braking forces. As you know, the sport is built around violent acceleration, deceleration, collision, and short-duration maximal efforts.
Basketball athletes, meanwhile, are usually more “reactive” and elastic. They live in repeated stretch-shortening cycles all game long:
reactive jumps
quick contacts
change of direction
rhythm and timing
stiffness/reactivity qualities
So if you tested RSI:
standing vertical or force-dominant outputs → many NFL athletes would likely win
RSI / drop jumps / repeated elastic outputs → NBA players would probably separate themselves
That doesn’t mean NBA athletes aren’t explosive - they absolutely are. But it’s often expressed differently:
less raw force
more efficiency
more elastic utilization
better reflexive/reactive qualities
A 313-pound defensive tackle jumping 35” is an example of enormous force production and power relative to body mass.
But if you asked that same athlete to repeatedly bounce off the floor with elite contact times and maintain efficiency over multiple jumps, a high-level NBA guard or wing flips the equation.
Different sports create different adaptations:
🏈 NFL → force dominant
🏀 NBA → elasticity dominant
Both are freaky. Just in different ways as you know.
How a plyometrics exercise is performed determines whether or not it actually will cause plyometric adaptations
Too many athletes do “plyos” without the exercise being performed “plyometrically” i.e. coupling of ECC/CON actions
Watch the footwork
Uses repositioning steps to find the best angle of force application to move in the intended direction
No pushing out of bad positions
He Lateral Runs (initiation by PUSHING off backside leg) not Crossover Run (initiation by PULLING off front side leg)
As we get into the time of the year when the weather warms up make sure you don’t forget:
Cold brew and iced coffee are not the same thing
One is good, and one sucks
RTP progression from @RichieGrayGSI@AthleteShoulder simple thoughts for better progressions. Example below:
1-ISOs to refund/reeducate body shape.
2-Player movement stationary standalone bag.
3-Player and bag moving (un resisted).
4-Player and bag moving w/weight behind it.
If an athlete passes a RTS test (or battery of tests) but doesn’t FEEL ready to play, then their rehab was inadequate.
The RTS/rehab process not only needs to physically prepare athletes, it also needs to make athletes FEEL prepared.
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Learn from people who ACTUALLY work with the type of clients/athletes you want to work with, who share what they ACTUALLY do vs what they “would” do
Be wary of any courses and/or certs trying to tell you how to do a job that they have never done. Buy books and talk to coaches doing the job or have done the job in the past. The people trying to sell you some course are just trying to profit on your insecurities
@WRCoachVannucci@CoachDeeWR It allows WRs to drop their COM and reduce their momentum rapidly. They aren’t doing it on purpose, it’s their natural reaction.
@AdamArchuleta That makes sense too! I trust your opinion on that more than my own haha.
Do you not think he tried to stay inside then? Or was being inside just a result of the timing of when he broke down?
@AdamArchuleta He maintains his inside leverage as he comes to balance to limit Toney’s options. Once Toney sets up his juke and cuts back he ends up outside but because of the leverage/position he broke down in is able to make strong contact vs trying to arm tackle Toney as he cuts back.
@AdamArchuleta I love the questions!
Coming in under control meaning at the appropriate speed for the situation. Too much speed and he may over run it or not be able to come to balance in time to make a good tackle. Not enough speed and Toney has too much space and can make a move.
End stage rehab should look no different than an athlete’s typical training.
If it does, then they won’t be prepared for the demands of their sport even if they’re “cleared”.