Athletic Strength And Power

Category: Strength Training & Conditioning

  • Wisconsin Football Strength… Evan Simon and Jamil Walker

    IMG_5426On a recent trip to Madison, Head Football Strength Coach Evan Simon rolled out the red carpet for ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power. I was able to get the behind the scenes look at the Badger Football Strength Program…. and a taste of what their Badger Performance Nutrition Center is like, too! They're not short on dairy products up there…and that leads to some great tasting smoothies….just what the squad needs after grinding away in the newly renovated football strength complex built within Camp Randall Stadium. 

    Once the players were gone, we enlisted Assistant Strength Coach Jamil Walker… a former standout Badger himself…. to demonstrate a few of the proper techniques on several exercises. In this video, Jamil performs the Land Mine exercise that's a good one for core strength development. Meanwhile, Evan Simon explains how to complete the exercise properly. There's also a few looks at some of the Camp Randall surroundings… pretty good motivators!
    Blogpost by Ed Cicale 

  • Baltimore Ravens UNDER ARMOR Performance Center


    IMG_5810Just got back from Baltimore, Maryland where I spent Saturday at the Baltimore Ravens Under Armor Performance Center. Well, a professional football training and practice facility can't get any better than the home of the 2013 Super Bowl World Champs. Head strength coach Bob Rogucki and Assistant Juney Barnett gave us the full tour, team nutrition-packed dining, football team training guidelines for strength coaches and ALL-Access with the Champs.  

    This exclusive training facility is nestled into the rolling hills, winding roads and the thick forests of Owing Mills, Maryland. This has to be ranked on some national publication's list as a "top place" to live! By the way, on the trip to Ravens Country, we stopped at Hersh's Pizza in Baltimore. This is THE finest pizza that you'll find anywhere.. Period. It's a must if you're heading to see the Orioles or Ravens! A must!

    Here's an ALL-ACCESS look at the Baltimore Ravens training complex. Just click on the folder:
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    Blogpost by Ed Cicale

     

  • Baltimore Ravens UNDER ARMOR Performance Center


    IMG_5810Just got back from Baltimore, Maryland where I spent Saturday at the Baltimore Ravens Under Armor Performance Center. Well, a professional football training and practice facility can't get any better than the home of the 2013 Super Bowl World Champs. Head strength coach Bob Rogucki and Assistant Juney Barnett gave us the full tour, team nutrition-packed dining, football team training guidelines for strength coaches and ALL-Access with the Champs.  

    This exclusive training facility is nestled into the rolling hills, winding roads and the thick forests of Owing Mills, Maryland. This has to be ranked on some national publication's list as a "top place" to live! By the way, on the trip to Ravens Country, we stopped at Hersh's Pizza in Baltimore. This is THE finest pizza that you'll find anywhere.. Period. It's a must if you're heading to see the Orioles or Ravens! A must!

    Here's an ALL-ACCESS look at the Baltimore Ravens training complex. Just click on the folder:
    Folder ravens
    Blogpost by Ed Cicale

     

  • Roger Schwab Podcast: Main Line Health & Fitness, Philadelphia, PA

    IMG_5520While making my way around the huge, sprawling metropolis of Philadelphia, I was finally able to drive into one of the finer suburbs that you'll see anywhere in the USA… known as Bryn Mawr. It's a centerpiece of what's known as the Main Line. It's all good!

    In fact, it's in this area of Philly where you'll find some of the most interesting, and expensive, revolutionary strength training machines called X-Force. Roger Schwab, the founder of Main Line Health & Fitness has been in business there since he opened on Thanksgiving Day in 1976. Today, his training center maintains 35,000 square feet and is home of 120 pieces of vintage Nautilus, Med-X and Hammer Strength strength machines. There's also a full compliment of all of the popular cadio training equipment. In addition, they have a nutrition and smoothie bar!

    But, it was in January 2012 when Schwab decided to add the X-Force "Negative Training" Equipment to his training center.
    LogoEquipment that puts the emphasis on the eccentric phase of the repetition. Exercise physiologists have determined that a person can handle 40% more weight on the negative phase of the "rep"….thus, trainees who focus their workouts on this aspect are set to reap some great gains! And it was with the addition of this advanced training system that has incredibly increased…. that is tripled, the personal training segment of his facility in Bryn Mawr. 

    In this ASAP Podcast, Roger Shwab discusses his Mainline Health & Fitness Training Center. Click here or on the official ASAP Podcast logo.

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    Roger Schwab Podcast

    Here's some photos of his Main Line Health & Fitness Center 

    Blogpost by Ed Cicale

     

  • Roger Schwab Podcast: Main Line Health & Fitness, Philadelphia, PA

    IMG_5520While making my way around the huge, sprawling metropolis of Philadelphia, I was finally able to drive into one of the finer suburbs that you'll see anywhere in the USA… known as Bryn Mawr. It's a centerpiece of what's known as the Main Line. It's all good!

    In fact, it's in this area of Philly where you'll find some of the most interesting, and expensive, revolutionary strength training machines called X-Force. Roger Schwab, the founder of Main Line Health & Fitness has been in business there since he opened on Thanksgiving Day in 1976. Today, his training center maintains 35,000 square feet and is home of 120 pieces of vintage Nautilus, Med-X and Hammer Strength strength machines. There's also a full compliment of all of the popular cadio training equipment. In addition, they have a nutrition and smoothie bar!

    But, it was in January 2012 when Schwab decided to add the X-Force "Negative Training" Equipment to his training center.
    LogoEquipment that puts the emphasis on the eccentric phase of the repetition. Exercise physiologists have determined that a person can handle 40% more weight on the negative phase of the "rep"….thus, trainees who focus their workouts on this aspect are set to reap some great gains! And it was with the addition of this advanced training system that has incredibly increased…. that is tripled, the personal training segment of his facility in Bryn Mawr. 

    In this ASAP Podcast, Roger Shwab discusses his Mainline Health & Fitness Training Center. Click here or on the official ASAP Podcast logo.

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    Roger Schwab Podcast

    Here's some photos of his Main Line Health & Fitness Center 

    Blogpost by Ed Cicale

     

  • Tennessee Vols Sports Dietitian Allison Maurer: Making a Smoothie

    Tennessee Volunteers Sports Dietitian Allison Maurer takes time out for ASAP and delivers an award winning Smoothie! Frozen fruit, banana, milk and protein powder. That’s how it’s done in the UT Vols strength training complex. Check out this video…then head to your blender!

     

    Here’s a previous ASAP Sports Nutrition segment that Allison appeared in.

     

  • Tennessee Vols Sports Dietitian Allison Maurer: Making a Smoothie

    Tennessee Volunteers Sports Dietitian Allison Maurer takes time out for ASAP and delivers an award winning Smoothie! Frozen fruit, banana, milk and protein powder. That’s how it’s done in the UT Vols strength training complex. Check out this video…then head to your blender!

     

    Here’s a previous ASAP Sports Nutrition segment that Allison appeared in.

     

  • Villanova Football Strength: TWO BOARD SWISS BAR PRESS plus Weightroom Tour


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    IMG_5598Villanova Head Football Strength Coach Phil Matusz leads the tour of the recent weightroom renovations. In this ASAP COACHING SEGMENT, Coach Matusz instructs the Two Board Swiss Bar Press. 


     

  • Villanova Football Strength: TWO BOARD SWISS BAR PRESS plus Weightroom Tour


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    IMG_5598Villanova Head Football Strength Coach Phil Matusz leads the tour of the recent weightroom renovations. In this ASAP COACHING SEGMENT, Coach Matusz instructs the Two Board Swiss Bar Press. 


     

  • Purdue Athletics:Director of Sports Performance; Duane Carlisle

    On a recent trip to Purdue University, ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power, checked in on the Director of Sports Performance for the Boilermakers, Duane Carlisle. The high energy coach took some time to share some information on Movement Prep in this video recorded in the Mollenkopf Athletic Center and at the Schleicher Field.
    The successful Coach Carlisle also has a website and blog:

    Boiler Up!

    Coming this fall: Part Two at Purdue with Senior Associate Director of Sports Performance Doug Davis. Doug worked under Head Football Coach Darrell Hazell at Kent State Football and is now at the same capacity in West Lafayette. He was a long time Assistant Strength Coach at Ohio State under Coach Jim Tressel.