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Showing posts with label Abs Agility Balance Bicep curls Box jump Calf raises Core strength Deadlift Eccentric strength Endurance Leg extensions Olympics Pushups Skiing Speed Split squat Strength Training Speed Training. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Saturday, January 5, 2019
Strength Coach Classic: Making Your Big Time: A Tribute to Frosty Westering
Over 300 wins, four national championships and a top 10 ranking among all-time college football coaches.
Now that's success!
Isn't it?
Those numbers belong to Frosty Westering, the longtime coach of the Division III Pacific Lutheran University Lutes, who recently passed away this April (2013). With numbers like that, you would be hard pressed to find anyone to say that he wasn't a great coach or didn't know how to win.
Wouldn't you?
While most individuals would associate winning records and championships with the definition of a successful coach, Frosty exemplified everything about success that wasn't just focused around game plans, scripts and high dollar recruiting budgets. Winning to him was just a by-product of two things, love and commitment. Frosty went into every battle with those two things as if they were his sword and shield and yet he always came out, victorious and unscathed from combat. Not bad for a guy that believed in singing before games and helping opponents up after putting them on their tails, right?
But I didn't know Frosty as a coach. I knew him as the author of one of the most influential books of not only my coaching career, but of every intern's, graduate assistant's and athletes that have ever been a part of my life; Make the Big Time Where You Are. A book that was recommended to me when I was an intern and one that will remain a staple in every “which book would you recommend” question I get for as long as I live.
If you're looking for the “Holy Grail” of program design, this is it. If you want the inside edge on others in this field, go ahead and place your order. But you won't find anything about sets, reps and multi-syllable, unpronounceable periodization schemes. Not even a hint of corrective exercise, primal flow, postural restoration. Not one. Zero. None.
So, what's the big deal?
While my coaching career of less than 10 years may be considered almost nil to many of you in this field, I've worked in almost every capacity as a strength and conditioning coach thus far. With stops as a student personal trainer, intern, GA, college assistant, head college coach, NFL assistant, and now “private sector coach” and business partner, my resume has more bullets points than a BB gun carnival game. But, does this mean I know what it takes to be successful?
I'll be the first one to tell you, not even close.
And Frosty's “Make the Big Time Where You Are” helped me understand that.
Unfortunately, a lot of us still set our sights on the end goal, our five and ten year plans. We look to the end of the road and define our success on how many championships we've won, how many zeroes at the end of our paychecks and possibly how many kids “we trained” that made it to the league. Instead of worrying about right now, we worry about what's next. Instead of taking care of the responsibilities we have now, we worry about the job we want next. Rather than accepting the role of a mentor, a leader and a positive influence on today's youth, we blame what we CAN'T do on inadequate facilities, lack of help and appreciation.....Join StrengthCoach.com today to read the rest of this article and much more!
Saturday, December 1, 2018
Strength Coach- Agility, Foot Speed and Direction Change
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Everyone wants to "break ankles". I get it. It's how to develop this ability to stop on a dime and change direction that is in question.
Agility and the concept of direction change is a topic that comes up over and over. There are always the people who put up videos like this
and then tell us that this is a waste of time.
The truth is most of what you see is a waste of time. This guy might be better as Lord of the Dance than playing a sport. Unfortunately, people continue to paint with a broad brush and color every pre-programmed agility drill as a bad idea. This is a classic example of what Alwyn Cosgrove like to call Overreaction and Undereaction.
All pre-programmed agility is not a bad idea.
At Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning we try make agility development part of our warm-up. We will use an agility ladder for 2-3 minutes to work on footwork and, to teach stabilization, landing and crossover skills. Pre-programmed agility is great coordination work for young athletes and great prep work for older athletes. The problem is when we spend time getting really good at useless stuff (see video above).
Let me be clear. In general we don't do much agility work.
Most agility work is, in my mind, “just running around". I think coaches waste lots of time running from cone to cone and then trying to get athletes to do it faster. That, to me, is a waste of time.
I just think stuff like 5-10-5 etc is dumb. I can take 10 min and make anyone faster at it but I don't think they are more agile.
The big trend now is reactive agility and in my mind, that is what occurs...... Join StrengthCoach.com today to read this article and much more........
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
StrengthCoach Podcast #240 Adding Online Training to Your Portfolio
Adding Online Training to Your Portfolio with TrainHeroic's Founder Ben Crookston- Episode 240
Ben Crookston, CEO and Founder of TrainHeroic
We spoke about:
- Everything Online training
- How TrainHeroic started
- Making a bigger impact in the industry
- Creating an experience for people
- Then different offerings of using technology
- Using it in a team setting and best practices
- the Readiness feature
Members Only: Watch/Listen to the full Podcast here......
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
StrengthCoach- How Heat Therapy Could Boost Your Performance
In February 2014, the Canadian women's soccer team realized it needed more juice in the gym. So management called in an electrician to redo the wiring in the team's makeshift workout room in suburban Vancouver, to prevent two rented industrial heaters from blowing the fuses. “The plugs just couldn't handle it,” recalls César Meylan, the team's head sports scientist.
Then, for five straight winter days, Meylan put the squad through grueling 90-minute circuit-training sessions with the room kept at a toasty 95 degrees. Each player swallowed an ingestible sensor that allowed Meylan to monitor core temperature in real time, and he doled out brief periods of rest or snippets of encouragement to any player whose reading deviated too far from the goal of 101.3 degrees. That fever-like temperature, he says, “is the driving factor for adaptation.” Keep Reading.....
Monday, August 13, 2018
Strength Coach TV Featuring; Building an Incredible Culture- Spurling Fitness
"StrengthCoach.com has helped me tremendously since its inception. The articles and videos continue to be really helpful in learning what's currently going on in the Strength and Conditioning profession.
However, what I find most valuable is the ongoing forum discussions which feature dialogue between some of the best people in the business. You get an insight to what people are doing with their clients/athletes."
Sean Skahan, Strength and Conditioning Coach, Minnesota Wild
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Training the Brain for Speed
About this Course
Presentation by Dan Fichter, Founder of WannaGetFast.com and sports performance expert. Join Dan as he shows you the mental side of strength training and how to maximize results by training SMARTER.
Coach Credentials
Dan Fichter owns and operates WannaGetFast Power/Speed Training, a sports performance training business in Rochester, NY and Tampa, FL that offers training to elite athletes. Fichter's clients have included pro hockey players Chris Thorburn (Winnipeg Jets), Stanley Cup champion Brian Gionta (Buffalo Sabres), Ryan Callahan (Tampa Bay Lightning, US Olympic Team), Shane Prince (Binghamton Senators), Olympic track and field star Victoriya Rybalko from the Ukraine, NY Yankee shortstop Cito Culver, UFC fighter Mike Massenzio, Oakland A’s 2nd baseman Andy Parrino, Washington Nationals Infielder Chris Bostick along with Washington Nationals pitcher Brian Dupra. Dan has coached athletes in all sports from all over the country. Dan is in two different Halls of Fame for his own athletic prowess in football.
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