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  • 2022 Performance-4 Final Four Strength Clinic

    UnnamedLongtime strength and conditioning coach Shaun Brown is preparing for the annual 'Performance 4 Final Four Strength Clinic' which, this year, will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana on Friday April 1st. This is a great opportunity to network with other coaches,  compare notes on off-season, pre-season and in-season program design and gather some great information for tweaking your basketball strength and conditioning program upon returning back home. Discussions on human performance, vertical jump training, injury prevention, development of explosive leg power, and nutritional advice for athletic enhancement. 
    This clinic is NSCA CEU certified for 0.4 CEUs. We have a great lineup of speakers and sponsors for this year's clinic. There will also be a social, that is free for all attendees of the clinic. Be sure to sign up today!

    The 2022 Performance Four Clinic Emcee is Ted Lambrinides. He's a nationally recognized former strength training & conditioning coach (Ohio State Buckeyes, Kentucky Wildcats), an NFL Player Tracking analyst, and sports performance consultant for a multitude of NFL and collegiate strength coaches. He's been speaking at clinics all across the United States for nearly 40 years! 

    Coach Brown …West Virginia Mountaineers' Director of Strength & Conditioning for Basketball, has been in the business of strength and conditioning of basketball players for 35 years! High school, big-time college and NBA, national championships, Final Fours, mentoring. He's accumulated a wealth of experience and knowledge in player and culture development for basketball squads from working in tandem with some of the game's great coaches.

    Each year Performance 4 aims to provide its attendees with an immersive experience intended to expand and promote the scientific and technical knowledge surrounding strength and conditioning. This conference brings together experts in the basketball performance field to help expand and grow the game of basketball and build better athletes.

    The aim of this conference is to provide an interactive experience for all attendees based around best practices in the field and cutting edge scientific knowledge.

    Speakers:

    University of Alabama – Mike Snowden

    University of Arkansas – Dave Richardson

    University of Colorado – Steve Englehart

    University of Houston – Alan Bishop


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  • Quantify Strength & Conditioning Assessments for all Athletes

    Screenshot_20220317-125353_GooglePhysical screens are extremely powerful in the betterment of an individual’s physical limitations, but how can you quantify fundamental movement patterns while conducting these assessments?

    Join us for an in-depth discussion with Phil Stotter, V1 Sports Director of Sports Science and Biomechanics Expert and special guest Matt Krause, Administrative Director of the Professional Baseball Strength and Conditioning Coaches Society (PBSCCS) and former Director of Strength and Conditioning, six seasons with the New York Yankees on our next webinar tomorrow, March 18th, 2pm ET.

    You'll learn:

    • How to conduct various TPI and OnBaseU screenings and understand the effectiveness of using ground force pressure not just for athletes, but for everyone.
    • How you can leverage ground force data and video to improve the strength and performance of athletes, treat injuries, and prevent the next ones.
    • Tips on gamification to make assessments and improvement plans actionable and engaging for any individual.

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  • Mississippi State University’s Athlete Engineering Summit to be held on May 11th & 12th 2022

    STARKVILLE, Miss. 

    Screenshot_20220312-113833_DuckDuckGoFour divisions at Mississippi State University (MSU)—the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS), the National Strategic Planning and Analysis Research Center (NSPARC),Bagley College of Engineering, and the MSU Athletics Department—along with The Communiversity at East Mississippi Community College (EMCC) have joined forces to host the inaugural Athlete Engineering Summit. The two-day event will take place on May 11 and 12 at The Communiversity with a ticketed dinner event at the MSU Baseball stadium the night of the 10th and a social at the MSU football stadium the night of the 11th.

    The summit will feature discussions focusing on how to build effective collaborations between athletics and academics, and will explore how key elements affect the four athlete personas: sports, industry, tactical, and at-risk athletes. In addition to nationally-recognized keynote speakers and panels of experts, attendees will have an opportunity to network with professionals, enjoy delicious food, and see human performance technology in action. 

    Summit details

    Registration will open in March.

    Registration is $300 for general admission, $150 for MSU and EMCC faculty and staff, and $100 for MSU and EMCC students.

  • Georgia Tech Strength & Leadership Clinic April 9th 2022

    Atlanta, Georgia

    GT clinic 22Georgia Tech Football Strength and Conditioning Coach Lew Caralla has announced the upcoming 2022 clinic to be conducted at the football strength training facility at the venerable Bobby Dodd Stadium on April 9th.  Without a doubt, the clinic promises to be a pretty big deal with a rock solid line-up of speakers! In addition to the master motivator, Coach Caralla, and the Yellow Jackets strength staff, this one day seminar features plenty of knowledgeable clinicians:    

    • Dr. Thomas Stallworth  Atlanta Falcons Head Strength Coach who came to the Falcons after three seasons with the New York Giants. Prior to his time with the Giants, he was the Head Strength and Conditioning coach at Western Kentucky University.
    • Harold Nash: spent 16 seasons in the NFL as a strength and conditioning coach, and after joining the Cowboys in 2020 as an assistant strength and conditioning coach, he was elevated to Head Strength Coach in 2021
    • Inky Johnson: nationally known motivational speaker
    • Dr. Aaron Wellman: Indiana Hoosiers Senior Assistant Athletic Director for Football Performance
    • Mark Naylor: Arizona Cardinals; Assistant Strength Coach

     

    Click Here for the registration form

    Clinic Schedule:

    Registration Check in: 7:00am-7:50am

    Speaker 1: 8:00am – 8:50am

    Speaker 2: 9:00am – 9:50am

    Speaker 3: 10:00am – 10:50am

    Lunch: 11:00am-11:50am

    Speaker 4: 12:00pm – 12:50pm

    Speaker 5: 1:00pm – 1:50pm

    Speaker 6: 2:00pm-2:50pm

    Conclusion & wrap Up

     

    Breakfast and Lunch will be provided.

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  • ASAP PAC-12 Feature: Arizona State Football Strength Coach Joe Connolly Podcast & Pics

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    I had to go all the way out to the desert to track down Coach Joe Connolly, Arizona State's Director of Sports Performance. I'd last seen Joe at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan when the Michigan State Spartans hosted the ASU Sun Devils. In the end, MSU couldn't find a way to catch the shifty Sun Devil freshman QB Jayden Daniels as the capacity crowd of over 77,000, mostly in green & white, and their Sparty mascot left the stadium in shock with an upset loss. Head Coach Herm Edwards, Joe Connolly and the Sun Devil mascot, Sparky boarded their motor coaches and headed to the airport, off to PHX with the W.
    Coach Connolly, a Massachusetts dude, now in his fourth year in Tempe, has settled in to Arizona living, abundant cacti, and his PAC-12 team. We'd first met back in 2008 at the University of Louisville, where Joe was an assistant with then UL Cardinals' Head Strength Coach Joe Kenn.
    Joe also spent some great years at the University of South Carolina as head strength coach for the Gamecocks and their legendary Hall of Fame Head Football Coach Steve Spurrier. In fact, they ran off three straight seasons of 11 win teams! Following that, he spent a few very enjoyable years with UMass Football. But now, he's preparing the Arizona State Sun Devils for the week to week challenges of a competitive PAC-12 Conference. Things can be really good out west when you've had some nice season victories versus UCLA, USC and Washington.
    Connolly is working in tandem with Coach Edwards, where they have assembled an improving squad built with a punishing, powerful running back in Rachaad White, the evasive QB Jayden Daniels and a very impactful Defense that seems to get stronger toward the end of games. Coach Connolly also has a dedicated staff to help ensure that the player development program works to maximum efficiency. Sun Devil Football Assistant Sports Performance Directors Clayton Kirven and Colbert Calhoun, as well as Graduate Assistant Weston Gadient are making certain that Sun Devils definitely have a bright future. 
    Arizona State will face the Wisconsin Badgers in the Las Vegas Bowl at Allegiant Stadium on Dec. 30.
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    In this ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power Podcast, we discuss:
    • Coach Joe Connolly's career path that led him to working with Herm Edwards at ASU  
    • 'Developmental Fridays'
    • the extensive in-season training program
    • what Sun Devil legend Pat Tillman means to ASU and all of Arizona

    This ASAP Podcast is brought to you in part by:

    Click here for the ASAP behind the scenes photos at Arizona State Football
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  • ASAP PAC-12 Feature: Arizona State Football Strength Coach Joe Connolly Podcast

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    Tempe, Arizona
     
    I had to go all the way out to the desert to track down Coach Joe Connolly, Arizona State’s Director of Sports Performance. I’d last seen Joe at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan when the Michigan State Spartans hosted the ASU Sun Devils. In the end, MSU couldn’t find a way to catch the shifty Sun Devil freshman QB Jayden Daniels as the capacity crowd of over 77,000, mostly in green & white, and their Sparty mascot left the stadium in shock with an upset loss. Head Coach Herm Edwards, Joe Connolly and the Sun Devil mascot, Sparky boarded their motor coaches and headed to the airport, off to PHX with the W.
    Coach Connolly, a Massachusetts dude, now in his fourth year in Tempe, has settled in to Arizona living, abundant cacti, and his PAC-12 team. We’d first met back in 2008 at the University of Louisville, where Joe was an assistant with then UL Cardinals’ Head Strength Coach Joe Kenn.
    Joe also spent some great years at the University of South Carolina as head strength coach for the Gamecocks and their legendary Hall of Fame Head Football Coach Steve Spurrier. In fact, they ran off three straight seasons of 11 win teams! Following that, he spent a few very enjoyable years with UMass Football. But now, he’s preparing the Arizona State Sun Devils for the week to week challenges of a competitive PAC-12 Conference. Things can be really good out west when you’ve had some nice season victories versus UCLA, USC and Washington.
    Connolly is working in tandem with Coach Edwards, where they have assembled an improving squad built with a punishing, powerful running back in Rachaad White, the evasive QB Jayden Daniels and a very impactful Defense that seems to get stronger toward the end of games. Coach Connolly also has a dedicated staff to help ensure that the player development program works to maximum efficiency. Sun Devil Football Assistant Sports Performance Directors Clayton Kirven and Colbert Calhoun, as well as Graduate Assistant Weston Gadient are making certain that Sun Devils definitely have a bright future. 
    Arizona State will face the Wisconsin Badgers in the Las Vegas Bowl at Allegiant Stadium on Dec. 30.
     
    In this ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power Podcast, we discuss:
    • Coach Joe Connolly’s career path that led him to working with Herm Edwards at ASU  
    • ‘Developmental Fridays’
    • the extensive in-season training program
    • what Sun Devil legend Pat Tillman means to ASU and all of Arizona

    This ASAP Podcast is brought to you in part by:

     
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  • ASAP Podcast with Tennessee State Football Head Strength Coach Scott Holsopple

    This ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power Podcast with Head Strength & Conditioning Coach Scott Holsopple was recorded on loaction in Nashville, Tennessee at one of America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Tennessee State University. 
    Coach Holsopple, the Director of Sports Performance for the TSU Tigers, is a twenty-two year veteran in the collegiate strength and conditioning profession and is excited to work along side the likes of former NFL head coaches Jeff Fisher and Hue Jackson as well as new TSU Tigers' Head Football Coach, former Tennessee Titans and Ohio State Football star Eddie George. college football's 1995 Heisman Trophy recipient. 

    This podcast is sponsored by TEAMBUILDR, the onlibne strength & conditioning software, and by ON Milk/ One Source the only portable high protein milk supplement made From 2% milk that does not require refrigeration    

  • ASAP Podcast at Cincinnati Bearcats Football:  Strength Staff Podcast

    Screenshot_20210621-212213_GmailASAP Podcaster Ed Cicale ventured to The University of Cincinnati Bearcats, post-pandemic, to check in on what last years' media darling college football team is up to and how they are preparing to make another move toward becoming a top ten program.

    This podcast is a group interview with the strength staff assembled by Bearcats' Director of Football Sports Performance Brady Collins. He's put together an "amped up and juiced" staff comprised of:

    Coach Jeremiah Ortiz
    Coach Zach Higgins 
    Coach Danny Folino
    Coach Jimmy Rodenberg

    The podcast was recorded at the Cincinnati Bearcats strength staff office where each coach was able to explain and detail many of the parts of the Bearcat strength and conditioning program. 

     

     

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