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And now this "Teachable Moment" from StrengthCoach.com!
From the Ground Up
And now this "Teachable Moment" from StrengthCoach.com!
From the Ground Up
The following is provided by Dan John, Head Track and Field coach at Juan Diego Catholic High School in Draper, Utah and is taken from his book From the Ground Up. This may be one of the most significant articles you will ever read about strength training. Read slowly and absorb the knowledge. Dan has forgotten more than many of the current gurus pretend to know. For years I have enjoyed his t-nation writings and he has been kind enough to share some of his best work with us. From the Ground Up 11 The Southwood Junior High Weightlifting Program Every so often,
I will get an email from a high school coach about teaching a group of kids to lift weights. The emails often sound like the task...to get kids to lift...is insurmountable. Some of the coaches sound like they need a miracle worker to come in and exorcize the student body before beginning the exercise program. I always argue back to these fine men and women that it can be done...easily and inexpensively. I can't claim any credit from the following program, but I am indebted to Mr. Dave Freeman, my ninth grade P.E. coach for making us do this program! After eight years at St. Veronica's School, I transferred to Southwood Junior High to begin junior high. It was a helluva transition. From Irish Nuns to public school is transition enough, but I was also going to play football. At 118 pounds of ...ahem...pure muscle, it was obvious to everyone I needed to lift weights. It was at this time I was introduced to Southwood's lifting program. In a portable building, the school had outlaid about 15 of those cement filled weightlifting sets that everyone from my generation remembers as their first bar.
Mr. Freeman spent little time explaining the "rep-set" system of 8-6-4 because of course everybody, except me, knew what to do. That is part of the brilliance of the program...you learned it once and then you lifted. Not exactly rocket science...but who needs rocket science on the football field? The program was very simple. First, groups of four boys were given a bar........Join StrengthCoach.com today to access the full article and more!
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