Category: Strength Training & Conditioning

​Talk about a swarm of Yellow Jackets! This Georgia Tech Football squad was on the go during my most recent visit to Atlanta, as head strength Coach Lew Caralla certainly had things stirred up. This particular workout that sport science researcher and NFL player tracking specialist Dr. Ted Lambrinides and I witnessed consisted of some team building activities, some very well executed squat sets, some single-arm dumbbell bench presses. There was also a pretty serious bar hang competition going on.

Coach Caralla was appointed as head strength and conditioning coach when newly incoming head football coach Geoff Collins arrived in the ATL. Caralla hit the ground running as he assembled his staff of Ryan Horton, Ed Thompson,Kyle Seger and Zach Reed. 
The hard work being done is starting to pay off now as the Rambling Wreck are transitioning from being a triple option centered offense to a more pro-style one. The recruiting focus shifts to targeting different types of players that fit the new scheme. But, in the mean time, the GT Yellow Jackets earned themselves a prime time win on their home field at Bobby Dodd Stadium. Georgia Tech jumped out to a quick lead and then watched their defense hold off late game surges by the Wolfpack of North Carolina State University. Coach Collins also put the ball in the hands of their star runner, Jordan Mason, who was able to churn out over 140 yards of rushing as the Georgia Tech offensive line was able to jell when it was most needed. 

The strength training facility is located within the football home of the Yellow Jackets, Bobby Dodd Stadium. The scoreboard flashed a message, but nobody was there to see it. However, just a short walk through the tunnel and it was a complete contrast to the action inside the weightroom. We entered the Hugh Spruill Strength Training Center at 5:44 a.m. as the strength staff made preparations for the workout. A few minutes later… the action.

ASAP Fact: On December 10, 1936, just 2 months after former head football coach John Heisman's death on October 3, the Downtown Athletic Club (New York City) trophy was renamed the Heisman Memorial Trophy, and is now given to the player voted as the season's most outstanding collegiate football player.

Georgia Tech's fabled Bobby Dodd Stadium 5:42 a.m.

The Rambling Wreck in training at The Georgia Institute of Technology

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Ohio State Basketball Director of Strength & Conditioning: Coach Quadrian Banks
Coach "Q" is responsible for directing the basketball performance training game plan and works directly with Ohio State Basketball Coach Chris Holtmann They're in their third year together and the blueprint is very goal oriented: prepare the Buckeye basketball program for the demands of an upper echelon, college basketball schedule. With a season timetable that includes the likes of Michigan State, West Virginia, Kentucky, Cincinnati, Villanova, North Carolina, Maryland, and the Big Ten foes, Coach Banks has been energizing this squad for what promises to be action packed challenges!  

Ohio State Basketball players are reminded everyday of the tradition that has transpired here in Columbus. John Havliicek, Jerry Lucas, Clark Kellogg, Jim Jackson, Herb Williams, Michael Redd, Mike Conley. BOOM. The Schottenstein Center hallways are filled with memorabilia of a storied college basketball program and the present day stars can't help but take note as they head to their daily workout and practice sessions.

 Nippert at Night

A wild Friday night in Cincinnati last week as the #18 University of Central Florida Knights were in town. This was your basic slug fest from the opening kickoff till that final 'fourth and inches' play. The Bearcats' star running back Michael Warren II  had somehow been stopped short of the first down marker. The chain gang was summoned for a measurement and once again, the officiating crew did not indicate that Cincinnati had gained the first down needed to drain the clock's sixty-two remaining seconds. With the ball on the UCF 47 yd line, Fickell turned the game over to his offensive lineman, a well conditioned bunch that Head Strength Coach Brady Collins trained by squatting and dragging sleds all summer. An offensive line that had, earlier this season, tested itself against some of the toughest defensive lineman in the country…. Coach didn't waiver. First Down Bearcats. This would become Fickell's signature win as Cincinnati coach:

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