Ed Cosner CSCS

Strength & Conditioning Coach; Old Strong Guys Rule; Champion Strength Athlete; NBA Championships w/SPURS; Proud Army Veteran

[Ed Cosner CSCS @EdCosner]

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GO SPURS GO!!!

Strength Staff for the 1999 NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs!!! Mike Brungardt, Me, Tim Kennedy.
This was taken on stage when we were celebrating at the Alamodome before heading to the Parade down the San Antonio River through downtown

Oh yeah I also assisted the Athletic Trainer because he didn’t have an assistant that year!!

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And yet another entry into my book tentatively titled “What in the fu$k was I thinking!?”

Was hitting a kettlebell circuit to warm up when that damn alien in my head started chirping away and challenges me to do RLE Split Squat but HEY let’s go ahead and superset it with some ‘Old School’ Straight Leg Deadlift standing a on box and reaching out in front of the feet then to make it worse a 5 sec eccentric on both exercises!!! 6x6 was an ass kicker so why not finish with 6x40m Farmers Walk!!

If you need me I’ll be laying on the ground in my gym contemplating my life’s choices with a HUGE SMILE on my face!!

What was it ‘don’t feed the goonies after midnight’?
Well it should be “Don’t Leave Ed in the Gym Unattended” 💪

#powersportstrengthconditioning #oldstrongguysrule

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@RichOToole 💪 Hell Yes!!

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Brungy and me celebrating and about to drink a lot of beer!!!

Spurs v Knicks - locker room celebration after the
SPURS won in 5 games to become 1999 NBA Champions

We came in healthy and strong having only dropped 1 game to the Timberwolves in the first round then we swept BOTH the Lakers and then the Trailblazers on our way to win the Western Conference Championship!!!

The Knicks came to town and we won both Games 1 and 2 in the Alamodome which was ROCKING!!! It was so loud in there and so exciting to be a part of sitting behind the bench!!
I can still remember on my drive into downtown in my Jeep (no doors or top) and people recognizing me!! They’d pull up next to me cheering and hitting the horn as we drove down 281!!
Then you’d get near the Alamodome and you’d see huge signs hanging from buildings GO SPURS GO!! Everyone in San Antonio felt part of the team and they were!!

Stay tuned because next I’ll share Games 3,4, & 5 out in NYC and some of the wild shit that could only happen to me!!!

#powersportstrengthconditioning #oldstrongguysrule #spurs

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I’ll buy because I have some questions on what you think is important in my designing physical training programs for my EOD guys!! We have a great performance dietitian I work with and her and I have been educating them on the importance of hydration and more. Would love for you to see our presentation we just gave our 1SOCES Commander

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@EODHappyCaptain Next time you’re in Destin area I’ve got a great spot for wings and Mon,Tue and Wed is .50 cent wings!!
I’m a human performance coach on Hurlburt Field (actually in charge of CE including EOD!!)

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Mike is one of the absolute best coaches I’ve ever worked with, at the Spurs I was responsible for several of the bench / reserve players, they did skill work and on court conditioning with Mike, he’d play one-on-one with them all while coaching them at the same time. I’d be out there watching and he’d always have some good advice for me to make sure their strength training was spot on for that player.

He’s a basketball genius and I’m happy as hell for him

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34 seasons in NBA

Fired twice by Cleveland

Fired by Lakers with 1-4 record

Takes assistant role 6 seasons

Wins Coach of Year again

And then he's fired again

Barely gets Knicks job

Falls behind 1st round

Calling for his head

But now

Finally

It's Mike Brown's time

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The other day a good friend of mine and I were talking about our Faith. I told him how I believe God has protected me from some of the stupid ass stuff I’ve done, now I’m talking about stupid shit where one small mistake and you’re messed up pretty bad or dead or maybe in jail 😉😂

One day I was up in Houston visiting my daughter, she was probably 3-4 years old and we went through a Drive Thru Safari. What in God’s Name possessed me to think it was a good idea to get out of my truck and pet a damn Bison but the next thing I know there I am with a handful of food pellets and I’m scratching his head and feeding him by hand like he’s a puppy not a damn 2500 pound animal with horns and an enormous head that even impressed me (and that’s something with my giant ass head!!) and could kill me!!

Wish I could say that story was an anomaly of my dancing with my stupidity but….

#powersportstrengthconditioning #oldstrongguysrule #3xlstout

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Hahahahaha….

Punk ass bitch just got his ass pounded by a 73 year old grown ass man!!!

[Raw Combat @Raw_Combat_]

A thug assaulted a 73-year-old man in an elevator right in front of his wife... but he had no idea who he was messing with, and learned the hard way.

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Always enjoy starting a new training journal. I have a couple motivational quotes/trinkets but this one is meaningful to me, yeah … sure … why?!
2nd place, plenty of folks would be celebrating but I was angry and embarrassed at myself.

I can close my eyes and remember each and every warm up and attempt on the platform, I remember that nothing felt right that day, I was completely out of sync, I could make excuses that I had to walk away from a girl I really liked (funny it’s the same one that recently tried to destroy me) or that I was busting my ass waiting tables at Dicks Last Resort till 2am or that I was going to UTSA full time and I was also the student weight room manager / strength and conditioning coach while still finding time to train like a possessed animal 4 days a week with my buddy Milo but that’s just fucking life

I missed my opening attempt in the squat (something I never do and never have again) then I threw a hissy fit and my belt, I was angry at the judges, never should have left it in their hands (or eyes) should have buried my squat like I always do so any anger I had should have been directed at myself not them. Of course I had to go searching for my belt and apologize to the meet director then as I walked onto the platform for my 2nd attempt I apologized to each judge, yeah knees wrapped tight as hell, claves cramping but I wanted to apologize.
8+ hours after my squat debacle the deadlift started and by this time I was just mentally spent and wasn’t paying attention to the scores, I was relying on someone else to do that while I was too busy “mind fucking myself” so after I finished my 3rd attempt my buddy Tim Bruner says “that was too easy, why’d you hit that and not a heavier?” Then he tells me, I had just lost the Texas Powerlifting Championship by 5 damn pounds!!! 5 pounds because I was too busy relying on someone else for something I wanted, I was too busy letting crap affect me that I had no control over and I lost what I could control.
(side note: I carried a 5 pound plate in my gym bag until I won the Championship in 1996!!)

#powersportstrengthconditioning #oldstrongguysrule #3xlstout

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@joereinagel210 Big Joe!!! ❤️❤️💪🏼💪🏼

Always one of the good San Antonio sportscasters!!
You and Chuck were always my favs when I was with the Spurs and the players liked both of you guys as well

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Pulling in for a quick Buc-ee’s stop (is it ever a quick stop?!!) on my trip to @Sorinex Summer Strong and realized that exactly 2 years ago today I stopped at this very Buc-cee’s on the way to Summer Strong 17 and received a text message I had been waiting for telling me that I was awarded my interim security clearance and a deferral from SOCOM allowing me to start a fantastic coaching opportunity in Destin Florida.

I thought then and I still think the same thing now… to me there is not a better place to celebrate than with my friends at Sorinex Summer Strong especially after the absolute bullshit I had been battling felt like I was playing Rockem Sockem Robots in real life and loosing!!!

#powersportstrengthconditioning #oldstrongguysrule #3xlstout

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@josiahjdp I did because of your story today!!!
Looking forward to more from you

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@josiahjdp Just WOW!! Amazing writing captivated me!!!

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Hahahaha!!! This is absolutely brilliant

I wish I’d have thought to do this when I got my “Dear John” letter when I was in the Army

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What an incredible voice

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@MarkHoover71 @MonteSparkman @bighousepower Started using a Tendo Unit back in the mid-2000’s …. still use it often
in my training especially during throwing season in the Highland Games.
Too damn many coaches jumping on the bandwagon with no clue on why… they’re also the first ones to jump off too!!