If training causes adaptations and enhances qualities that make athletes better at their sport, it's sport-specific, says
@CoachTQuick
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@SimpliFaster
ATTENTION ATHLETES!!! This is NOT ok. Yes, this man was a 1st Round Pick. Yes, he is a FREAK athlete. NO, this is not an acceptable squat. NO, this is not a good squat.
@BleacherReport
please stop posting videos of training like this. This is NOT ok. At all.
#owntherange
If practice is planned and executed appropriately, the need for “conditioning” is minimal at best. Train your athletes to be fast and let practice take care of the conditioning needs. It’s really that simple. If you practice the way you want them to play, they will be “in shape.”
Concerned Athlete/Parent:
“Coach, I’ve heard lifting weights is bad for you and can make you get hurt when you are playing your sport.”
Me, the Strength Coach:
If you’ll take a look right here for me...
If you’re in College Athletics, and you operate with a (5 Day a week, 9 to 5) mentality then you are in the wrong profession. It’s our responsibility to serve our Student-Athletes 24/7. Anything short of that is a disservice to these Men and Women.
This is why it’s SOOOO important to have QUALIFIED individuals running high school Weightrooms. I’ve seen highly trained adults develop Rhabdo from doing Murph and we have guys doing this with kids who just had 3 months off. God help us.
Was asked about placing a kicker on a separate “kickers” training program. My response was to ask why he needed to be trained differently. All players need to be:
Functional
Explosive
Strong (relative to position)
LaTech kicker commit
@GarinBoniol
cleaning 1.35x BW.
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Don’t Spot Olympic Movements!
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Ok.
I’m tired of thisgarbage from Ole Miss fans.
@ScoutSteveR
has a past. We all do. You know what he is today?
A devoted husband ✅
A great father ✅
A good friend ✅
Someone who would do anything in his power to help me (a former Ole Miss player) ✅
Y’all gotta be better.
Here’s the list for why Olympic lifting can be dangerous for people:
1. Your coach can’t teach it properly.
2. Your coach can’t progress/regress it properly.
3. Your coach can’t prescribe volume and intensity properly.
4. You don’t perform the lift properly.
I said what I said
I’m all for multi sport athletes in high school. 100%. But this narrative that playing other sports will magically make you a dominant athlete is about played out.
See dudes all the time posting videos of high box jumps where all they do is pull their knees to their chin and don’t really displace their hips much at all. Well this here...this ain’t that. This is EXPLOSIVE! Coach Rhea making monsters in his lab!
I’m going to need to dig deep into the toolbox for
@davellis10
by the time he’s done here. Great energy and athleticism from all of
@IndianaFootball
for a Monday lift this late in the season.
Sport specific training is one of the phrases “trainers” are using to get you to spend money with them. Don’t fall for the lie. Sport specific training = PRACTICE. Only time the Weightroom is sport specific is when you are a competitive power lifter or weight lifter.
As a high school strength coach, there is no better “supplement” or “secret sauce” for male athletes than puberty.
One way parents can put their kids, especially boys, in a better position for success is to hold boys back a year. The developmental benefits are immense.
The more I ponder, the more I believe punishment running needs to go away. We want kids to associate training with performance not punishment. Have a standard. If the standard is not met because if grades, attitude, attendance, etc. DO NOT PLAY THEM. That’s a real punishment.
2 best programming decisions recently:
1. Completely eliminating traditional back squat.
2. Emphasizing tempo over volume accumulation on compound lifts.
I’m not a big numbers guy, but we let the guys turn it loose this week. Multiple 300# benchers. Double digit 500# squatters.
This is why hiring qualified strength coaches have got to become a priority for high school admins. If either of those kids gets hurt, you’re getting buried under the school house after the law suit. Goodness.
People claiming that the minimum wage increasing to $15/hr will increase all wages across the board and provide relief to struggling families have little to no understanding of economics in a capitalist market.
My brother in strength hitting the nail on the head!!! Stop chasing numbers and training for max out videos! Train for functionality and injury prevention! This is not an acceptable pattern! As
@mboyle1959
would say, stop trying to just put strength on top of dysfunction!
Risk vs. Reward. What’s the true reward here? Someone please explain to me how/why this is helping this athlete be any better at his sport, or be a better teammate?
@MashElite
Front squat. I can’t justify cleans in a program that doesn’t incorporate front squats and I’m not giving up cleans. Also, never seen a kid that could front squat 350 that can’t back squat 500. Seen plenty of 500 back squats that can’t front squat 300.
Love when former athletes send me videos from their college weight rooms! This kid has come a long way and is going even further! Proud of you Ty! 275 at 193lbs! BIG PULL! FAST ELBOWS!
Or… and stay with me here… just like NFL DBs and WRs that ran track, they did it because they were genetically gifted and excelled due to those genetic gifts and physical superiority being pitted against normal teenagers… just a thought.
The more I work with the HS population, the more my focus shifts from the minutiae of specificity to the focus of overall capability. This is even more true of my multi-sport athletes. The individual demands of sport are important, but not aa much as the capability to perform.
“I believe the game of football should be the hardest workout of the week. Some coaches make it hell all week to make the games feel easy. What happens instead is their kids are slow and they’ve got 10 kids on the sideline out of uniform because they’re injured.” -
@pntrack
This most definitely IS punishment. Don’t care how much lipstick and makeup you put on a pig, it’s still a pig. Lack of sleep is one of the biggest performance inhibitors in athletes. Maybe, if study hall is so important, make your practices shorter to allow time for both. 🤷🏽♂️
That iftentimes life isn’t fair. Just because you work hard and do what’s right doesn’t mean you get rewarded. You don’t work hard and do it the right way for the reward. You do it because it’s the right thing to do whether you get the reward or not. Stop raising soft kids.
I took my 3 kids to their 1st football game in November. They watched our star QB get hurt, then the team come together to keep winning.
Tell me what lesson I’m supposed to teach them with FSU being left out.
This is un-American.
#FSUFootball
#FSUGotRobbed
#CFPScam
#ACC
So many coaches, trainers, and gurus, want to be “sport specific” yet all they do is mimic field movements and load them or put athletes into wacky positions and those things at them. Want to know what REAL sport specific training looks like? Check out this from
@UA_CoachBallou
Man this twitter movement to get
@JasonSpray
hired on as the Titans new Strength Coach is such a testament to what loving your craft can do. Growing and learning and getting better everyday no matter who signs your paycheck will always pay off in some way! Proud for you Coach!
This is staggering. The need for qualified AND certified strength coaches at the high school level is greater than ever. Kids are sustaining injuries at an alarming rate. If it’s truly about the kids, It’s time to require a certified S&C coach on every high school campus NOW!
42% of NCAA men experienced a major sports-related injury before entering college. Highest by sport: Ice Hockey 56%, Soccer 50%.
As seen w/ NCAA women, top two sports also have highest % of men who specialized in that sport by age 12. (NCAA GOALS study).
Are we still using a future NFL HOFer (1% of the 1%ers) to apply a narrative to 99% of high school athletes?
Here’s an idea…hush. Let kids be kids. If they want to focus on one sport, hush and go about your day. If they want to play everything offered…also hush and carry on!
Thread: A few days ago, I posted a video of my 4 year old singing "I Should've Been A Cowboy" by Toby Keith. My 4 year old knows nothing of the ugly and evil in this world. He is as innocent and tender hearted as they come. The amount of people who have had absolutely horrible
Sometimes you just go off script and let them hit an extra set when they feel good! Sophomore crushing 275 on front squat. That’s 20lbs improvement according to last “test day”
Contrary to popular Twitter opinions it is possible to be a very intelligent and effective strength coach and simultaneously be a great hype/culture guy.
Not a fan of either team...but geez... that’s terrible officiating by an NFL crew. Supposed to be the best in the business. That was bush league all night. Geez. Exclamation point was that last PF on Sean Payton. Someone should see how many flags that ref threw! 👀
#SaintsFalcons
Why do people revel in tiredness and soreness. That’s literally your body saying...hey dude...you’re hurting me. I understand that if you’re starting from scratch there will be some soreness as you create a new normal, but in the athlete population, tired/sore is the enemy!
After asking for some recommendations, these are the 7 non-S&C books I am reading in 2020. One thing I’ve learned on my coaching journey is that sets and reps are only a small part of what we do. Our impact HAS to go beyond the weightroom. We are in the people business after all.
Little Personal News:
Today was officially Day 1 as the Strength Coach for
@NoxAthletics
So excited to be working with these phenomenal coaches and athletes! Pumped to be back in the weightroom!
#PaterNation
This is so great for our industry, but it paints a very unrealistic picture.
@TheKurtHester
who I consider one of the best FB S&C coaches alive is at
#69
. So much depends on where you coach as opposed to how good you are at it. Hopefully this will be a growing trend for us all!
Clemson's strength coach receives a $100,000 raise, which puts his salary in the top five of strength coaches.
1. Chris Doyle, Iowa, $725K
2. Micky Marotti, Ohio State, $675K
3. Craig Fitzgerald, Tennessee, $625K
4. Joey Batson, Clemson, $600K
5. Scott Cochran, Alabama, $585K
High School Athletes: Coach, why are we lifting heavy during the season? Aren’t we supposed to like just stretch and stuff???
Strength Coaches: so when the time comes, you can do THIS!
@ze9023
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@SHSFootball6
ladies and gentlemen! Stronger is ALWAYS better!
#movemean
Seeing lots of tweets in response saying what if they do BOTH! Here’s a thought, what if they prioritize recovery and put full effort into their TEAM lifts. Id argue it’s almost impossible for a teenager to give 100% to team lift, a private trainer, and recovery. One will suffer!
The old “I lift on my own” & “I’m working out w/ my trainer” (instead of with the team), are two of the biggest cop outs ever!
Those who truly get what TEAM is all about, train together, push each other, hold each other accountable & understand that
#CompetitionBreedsSuccess
!
@CoachHerbertDa1
We had some absolute DOGS when I was coaching in D2. And buddy let me tell you, them cats down at places like West Florida and Valdosta… whew.
This will get all the Twitter likes and all, but if the kid is jumping off the tape on film and dominating, guess what…those college coaches don’t care.
College Coach: Does he work hard in the weight room
Me: Doesn’t even know where the weight room is located
College Coach: Thanks Coach for your time, that’s all I needed to know
#dontaskmetolie
This soundbite from Scott Frost, my goodness.
"I don’t want guys that go out in Minnesota with hoodies on and everything for warm ups. That just says to me just OK is enough, I’m a little cold so I’m going to come out here in that."
#Huskers
Think soccer players don’t lift? Think you can just play footie and do cardio and that’ll be good enough? Think again! This is a Championship team looking for Premier League promotion. Train.
Granted, I don’t have full context, but takes like this are HOT. GARBAGE. It’s 100% about money. My mortgage company and the grocery store don’t take my “love of coaching” as currency. Hard not to feel like this is a clout chasing tweet. ⤵️⤵️
Here’s my problem with GOATA: the people who are it’s “champions” are so combative and arrogant that no one wants to listen to the message. They use fake profiles and “troll” accounts try to play the gotcha game. They are like toddlers who scream and holler to make their point.
I’d like to take a second and highlight something here: this lift could have gone badly. Why did it not? This athlete has been front squatting this weight and more through full ROM and owning the range. That EARNED him the right at this attempt and facilitated an awesome recovery
As I’ve grown and evolved as a coach, I more and more am beginning to support minimum effective dose of training and practice. Why in the word do we think that practicing or running or lifting a team into the ground has any positive effect? Diminishing returns is a real thing!
And in another moronic but somehow unsurprising move, the
@NCAA
is now affecting ME and other HIGH SCHOOL coaches because of its ridiculous COVID dead period. No high school strength coaches can attend the CSCCa conference this year. Thanks guys. Glad to know amateurism is safe.
@TheMitchTucker
@BruceFeldmanCFB
He picked Matt up and took him away from the scuffle after his helmet came off. Was actually a really class move that he didn’t have to do.