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Strength Training Philosophy: Michigan State Football’s Ken Mannie
If the strength coaching profession has a John Wooden…he goes by the name: Ken Mannie, and he’s in East Lansing, Michigan prepping one of college football’s top programs,the Michigan State Spartans.He’s a big deal up there…. big enough that the Head Football Coach, Mark Dantonio refers to Mannie as “the heart and soul of Spartan Football.”
Just check out the podcast and you’ll see why!
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University of Mississippi Weight Room: Ole Miss Rebels Strength
Here’s a few cellphone pix that we shot while in Oxford, while visiting The University of Mississippi. Anyway, if you end up down at Ole Miss, you’ve got to go to Ajax Diner. The meals there are unreal and I think you could literally spend a few days there working your way through the menu. Unbelievable! Here’s my suggestion, the Hot Tamale Pie. The flavors will knock you off your feet and you’ll most likely email me to thank me for the tip! Oh yeah…. I had the turnip greens and sweet potato caserole as my sides. It’s so good that I’m planning another trip down there!
Enough of that, here’s a few of the photos…..
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ASAP Baseball Podcast with Washington Nationals Strength Coach John Philbin
The Washington Nationals won the National League East Division Championship this season, winning 96 ballgames. So, ASAP caught up with the team’s strength and conditioning coach, Joh Philbin for this podcast. Philbin, in his 6th year with the ‘Nats, has an interesting career…even having a stint as an Olympic Bobsledder! He has also introduced some new concepts to the Nationals in their training program and continues to improve upon strength training for baseball…even while playing a season of 162 regular season contests.
Baseball Strength PodcastThe SwingXP Information PodcastCoach John Philbin also was involved in developing an over weighted bat training device that helps to increase bat speed and train the athlete to bring the bat through the strike zone more efficiently and in a straighter line.. It’s an aluminum bat for youth players, high school and college athletes. It’s called the SWINGXP. And it has endorsement as the Official Training Bat of USA Baseball.This ASAP Podcast is a copyrighted program with exclusive rights held by ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power http://www.athleticstrengthandpower.com
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Cincinnati Bearcats at Ohio State Buckeyes
ASAP took you behind the scenes to see the Ohio State Buckeyes in training Part One with Asst AD for Football Sports Performance Mickey Marotti. We took you there for the Woody Hayes Athletic Center strength tour. We have shown you Front Squat Techniques with Asst Strength Coach Anthony Schlegel….. along with some core work and rope training with him as well. Of course, we gave you top notch Hammer Jammer Techniques with Strength Coach Kenny Parker and then-intern Nick Savage. And former All American OSU Buckeye Jeff Uhlenhake, now an Asst Strength Coach, joined us for an important Strength Coaching Segment.
We even brought you to field level for one of the great college marching bands, The Ohio State Marching Band and their incomparable "Script Ohio." Lastly, you were able to see the Gatorade Fuel Bar Tour with Buckeyes' Team Dietitian Sarah Wick.Once the training and nutrition is instilled, it's time for some football. Everything that the players have trained for and accomplished through hours of practice finally comes to fruition.
Here are some photos from last week's game.
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Auburn University Football Strength: Coach Ryan Russell
Auburn, Alabama
Welcome to Bigtime! Auburn University…. just across the road from Toomer's Drug Store…..where life stands still…..as if it's still 1967 in there. Counter fountain milkshakes and root beer floats along with grilled sandwiches. And, the newly renovated Toomer's Corner, which is bouncing back from some criminal malice that it had a few years ago. Grab some lunch at Zoe's Kitchen right there on Magnolia Avenue and take a walk through the beautiful campus. I did see a couple of huge members of the Auburn Tigers Football team leaving a local establishment called The Hound. These guys raved about the bison burgers there.
If you care to see one of the truly incredible college fitness centers,the Auburn University Campus Recreation and Wellness Center, then take the tour. It's an amazing structure and I would hope that there's a lot of fit college kids hanging out on this campus because this place tops them all! Unreal.
One group of college kids on the campus who are definitely in superb condition is the Auburn Tiger Football team. And of course, the physical training that they encounter is quite different that what's going on over at the fitness center. Led by Head Strength & Conditioning Coach Ryan Russell, the Tigers are able to perform at optimal levels. The comprehensive program that's implemented there ensures that the athletes succeed and meet high expectations. This is a football program steeped in tradition and home to many great players. James Brooks, Takeo Spikes, Tucker Fredrickson, Bo Jackson, Pat Sullivan, Cam Newton to name a few. Oh and then there's this Chris Davis 108 yard field goal attempt return. WOW. So, the players know the deal. Train extremely hard…. contend for an SEC Championship…..or for that matter, a National Championship. Here's a podcast/video that I conducted with Coach Ryan Russell prior to the 2014 season. War Eagle!
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ASAP Podcast with Jose Antonio PhD; Creatine & Nutrition Supplementation
This exclusive ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power Podcast was conducted with Dr. Jose Antonio who had studied endocrinology and metabolism at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where he also researched skeletal muscle plasticity. Antonio is currently an Assistant Professor of Exercise Physiology and Biology at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida.
Protein SupplementWe were able to catch up with the Jose Antonio in Columbus, Ohio at the EAS-Sports Nutrition Symposium. Dr. Antonio gave a well received lecture on sports nutrition supplementation…and the practical application and interpretation of scientific literature. Jose is a very candid speaker with interesting stories and definitely practices what he preaches! In fact, he's Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition.
In this podcast, we discussed primarily Creatine ….what it is… how it's used as a supplement. Also, we discussed caffiene use and protein, too.
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Creatine PodcastFor further information on creatine, here are some basics provided by the esteemed Mayo Clinic.
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Ohio State Buckeyes in Training Part One: Coach Mickey Marotti
At the time, he may of dreamed of what it would be like to be the strength coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes when he stepped foot into the Ernie Biggs Athletic Training Facility, known as the "north" facility, to become a G.A. strength and conditioning coach. That was right around 1987.
But, a little over twenty five years later, football coach Urban Meyer was to be named as Ohio State's 24th head coach. And once again, Meyer would call upon his long time right hand man…. Mickey Marotti… to take on a lead role of the responsibility of reviving a college football powerhouse program that had seemed to have fallen into a stage of hibernation.Coach Mickey Marotti spots Braxton Miller on bench pressesCoach Urban Meyer and Mickey Marotti have been teamed together basically since the time Meyer, who as a college football assistant coach, was on a site visit at the University of Cincinnati and witnessed Marotti who was the U.C. Bearcat Strength Coach in action. Coach Marotti was training the 'Cats at that particular moment and it definitely caught Meyer's attention. The training style was seemingly relentless. It was intense. Marotti was building a foundation– that of a highly motivated and enthused strength coach who infused his fervor on the athletes with whom he worked. He recognized a connection between intense physical training and development of the mindset of highly competive athletes. Even the Cincinnati Bearcat basketball team reaped the rewards of having Marotti there. Basketball Coach Bob Huggins loved it , too. Meyer made note of that coach he'd seen at Cincinnati. Meyer, at the time was an assistant coach at Notre Dame, and sought out to somehow get him in up to South Bend. That happened.
And, finally a few years later, Urban Meyer was able to reconnect with Mickey Marotti and bring him to Gainesville, Florida to take on the task with the University of Florida Gators. The combination worked. The trophy case now sports a pair of glass football trophies: college football's top prize. Several years later, Marotti departed the University of Florida, where he had helped mold top players into a national championship quality program, and headed back to Columbus, Ohio. This time though, the stockily built coach who once played college football at West Liberty University in West Virginia, would take on a larger, all encompassing role. Strength coach, yes… for sure…but now he'd take on even greater span as indicated with a new title of Assistant AD for Football Sports Performance. Departments like athletic training, custom tailored football sports nutrition, sport psychology, sports medicine, team physicians, GPS sports science, game day and practice prep would all be under his umbrella now. But most of all, motivation. That's Coach Mick's specialty…. motivation. When you've been doing the job as long as he has, you know and understand many types of personalities. Marotti developed a knack for knowing how to get elite football athletes from all walks of life to desire excellence and a hard training mentality. Ultimately, it takes a ton of hard work and effort. Marotti can help to extract it.
OSU Buckeye Sam Hubbard gets in some hand and forearm workSo, when Coach Marotti made the return trip to "C-bus," this time it was to The Woody Hayes Athletic Center, where a long corridor separates the original football training facility of the 70's and 80's from what is now one of the premier facilities of it's kind in all of collegiate and professional athletics. Ohio State….where Meyer and Marotti were once Graduate Assistant coaches, the two have now assumed their ultimate dream jobs with aspirations of taking the Buckeyes to college football's final four…and perhaps beyond.
Check out some of the photos here from the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, along with Part One of The Buckeyes in Training. These are some behind-the-scenes looks into how Coach Marotti prepares the Buckeyes.
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ASAP Podcast with Exercise Physiologist Dr. Ellington Darden PhD: The Body Fat Breakthough
Reknowned gym owner/fitness expert Roger Schwab of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania understands well of the principles of a type of exercise known as eccentric or negative training…so well that he invested thousands of dollars into a specialized type of training equipment called X-FORCE. The same can be said of Joe Cirulli and his Gainesville (Florida) Health & Fitness Training Center. He has also acquired the X-Force line of training equipment. The results at their training centers have been quite remarkable. I can testify to the training experience that I had in Bryn Mawr at Roger's Mainline Health & Fitness. My first twenty minute session, supervised by Roger Schwab left me with a feeling that I'd never quite felt from years of strength training and conditioning. In fact, recovery took several days. I couldn't wait to return for more…. and I did. However, flights to Philadelphia can add up. Then, I got word of exercise physiologist Ellington Darden's new book………
Dr. Darden's new bookRecorded at Kim Wood's Football Strength Clinic #4, ASAP overcame recording and technical difficulties and saved the audio for today's ASAP Podcast. Fortunately , our special guest Dr. Ellington Darden, was able to share some of his findings he's authored in his new book entitled: The Body Fat Breakthrough."
In the book, Darden details with plenty of motivating photographs, some of his findings on a new and interesting training regimen that produces some very noticeable results! Dr. Darden, an exercise phyiologist and author of 50 books dating back to 1973, knows how to deliver the point in easy to understand terminology. But, the huge message that I got from this new text is the reinforcement of the importance of Eccentric…or Negative Acentuated Training along with some new training techniques and methodology to my personal program and to those athletes and students whom I train.In his book, Dr. Darden explains how placing a greater emphasis on eccentric training can transform strength training and fitness training to new levels. And, his 30-30-30 Routine, which I've been experimenting with, is guaranteed to provide your program with a spark for improved results. Here's the ASAP Podcast with El Darden and information on how to get a copy of his newest book…. a must for any fitness trainer, strength coach, personal trainer or athlete looking to bump up their program.
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ASAP at Mississippi State Football Strength Training with Coach Rick Court
We had to make a return visit to Starkville, Mississippi this summer to check in on how the Mississippi State Football team was progressing under their new Head Strength & Conditioning Coach Rick Court. Of course, we visited Hail State last summer on our ASAP FOOTBALL POWER Road Show, but needed to see the changes!
We've seen Coach Court at Bowling Green, Toledo and Ohio State and it also gave us a chance to see Thomas Stallworth, Brady Collins and Nick Savage in action during the first morning group. Coach Court has the players and his assistants amped up…. it's high energy and strictly business!Ted Lambrinides speaking to the BulldogsUpon our arrival, we saw a very spirited conditioning workout, as the 'Dawgs worked their way through without a bark. Later, after we all headed to the team meeting room where ASAP's Ted Lambrinides spoke the team on the topic of "Drugs, Supplements & Personal Conduct." Definitely a winning message for athletes and young people!
Once Head Football Coach Dan Mullen finished wrapped up the meeting, we were headed off to a barbecue joint called The Little Dooey where we had some pulled pork (protein!) and some crawfish poppers….. not bad! Then it was time for the Hilton Garden Inn at Starkville to get rested up for a morning workout with the strength staff.
So, after cranking out an early bird workout, somehow I was able to film some footage of the first group of Mississippi State Bulldogs. Interestingly, these guys had first group priority because they were volunteers to visit a hospital later on that day. Great bunch of players!
Here's a look at what's going on behind the scenes in Starkville.ASAP Video and Blogpost by Ed Cicale
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