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ASAP Podcast with TEAMBUILDR Founder Hewitt Tomlin
TEAMBUILDR, one of our longtime ASAP sponsors, has continued to make some great strides in the strength training and conditioning business, even during a COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, their industry leading online strength & conditioning software has become even more of a game changer for strength coaches everywhere. While the Tennessee Vols, West Virginia Mountaineers and the Golden State Warriors strength and conditioning programs have been major players who have reaped the rewards of using TEAMBUILDR, many other high schools, college programs and professional teams are now under the TEAMBUILDR umbrella. And as a matter of fact, the most fiscally successful and most prominent collegiate athletic program in all of sports, the Ohio State University Buckeyes, have signed on with Hewitt Tomlin's TEAMBUILDR, as Coach Mickey Marotti is delving into the software.
In the ASAP Podcast, our initial attempt at a ZOOM recording, TEAMBUILDR founder Hewitt Tomlin explains the many advantages of using this powerful coaching tool, which is becoming even more beneficial during a shutdown that has left a strength coaching fraternity scrambling for ways to train their athletes from a distance.
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The Ohio State Buckeyes are the latest team to add the convenience of TEAMBUILDR
The Tennessee Vols have been on board with TEAMBUILDR on Rocky Top
The West Virginia Moutaineers are one of The BIG12 schools who use TEAMBUILDR online Strength & Conditioning Software -
Performance Four Web Clinic 2020 Basketball Strength & Conditioning
West Virginia Mountaineers' Men's Basketball strength and conditioning coach Shaun Brown has had to make fast break transition for his annual Performance Four Strength & Conditioning Clinic this year. Yes, the China Virus zapped The Final Four Atlanta and of course, The Performance Four ATL. Both were set to be huge events, but Coach Brown has gathered his resources and has come up with an alternative rescue!
Using technology support from Hammer Strength, the clinic will switch to an online format. So, coaches can live-stream this clinic on April 9th from 1-5 pm. It has a very reasonable $50 fee and only $15 for high school coaches.
The PERFORMANCE FOUR Strength Clinic
Speakers:
The 2020 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 in the USA, Australia and Japan since 1982 and has had firsthand studies in the former Soviet Union.
– University of Kentucky – Robert Harris
– North Carolina State University – Pat Murphy
– West Virginia University Sports Scientist – Jason Stone
– Clemson University – Mike Bewley
– Georgia State University – Justin Landry
The clinic is open to all College & High School Strength & Conditioning coaches.
The cost is $50 per person.
*For more information please contact Shaun Brown – shaun.brown@mail.wvu.edu or (304) 288-9958
Follow The Performance Four on twitter: @Performance_4
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These are some crazy times and we're going to need to weather the storm! The athletes whom we work with need leadership and discipline more than ever. Incredible collegiate and professional training facilities are being placed on lock down. As a result, our athletes are out there on their own…. figuring it out.
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Bill Jacobs is a huge proponent of ground-based training. Checkout this ASAP Video of ground-based Jammer rotaion work instructed by Ohio State Assistant Strength Coach Kenny Parker and, then strength intern Nick Savage
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ASAP Podcast with Houston Astros Manager Dusty Baker
Think you've seen and know a little bit about baseball? Imagine being involved with nearly 6,000 games! That's how much involvement in the game of baseball that today's ASAP Podcast guest Dusty Baker has had. Baker knows the history of the game from his days as a kid…with his own heroes. History of the game as a star player. History of the game with today's brand of game and players, too. And he has the stories to go with the experience. For example, in this podcast, Dusty talks about some of the "strength training" that he and the great and legendary Hank Aaron did. He also tells about the evolution of strength training in baseball and how different it was.
And how about these stats?
- NLCS MVP
- World Series Champ
- Two time All Star
- Gold Glove Award
- Silver Slugger
- Four Times Manager of the Year
Today's ASAP Podcast is made possible through the generous sponsorship of
TEAMBUILDR Online Strength & Conditioning Software
for coaches and their athletes
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The Strength & Conditioning Clinic
Notre Dame Football Strength Coach Matt BalisIt's strength clinic time and there are several reasons to get to one. For one, I've never been to a clinic where I did not return home with something newly added to my coaching toolbox. Fresh content! For example:
- Some new techniques and coaching points to use when coaching your athletes.
- Or, another way to incorporate certain exercises or lifts into the scope of the training program.
- Are my athletes too young to try that lift and will it require too much time and coaching to stir it into the entire training program?
- Should our program be a three day per week workout or a four day split? What's Coach Brady Collins' philosophy at Cincinnati Bearcats?
- Where should we place our Pit Shark® for optimal use?
- What are the pros and cons of choosing a POWERLIFT rack as opposed to the Sorinex model?
- How can I educate the entire coaching staff at our school so that we're on the same page?
- What is Coach Kenn's purpose for coaching the athletic position?
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Our players need more toughness! How does Coach Marotti instill this with his Buckeyes/
- Yoga??? It's definitely a piece that needs to be incorporated into our program. How can we add this into our workouts?
- How does Coach Ken Mannie develop his Spartan "earned, never given" philosophy?
- My star running back plays basketball AND baseball. Now what???
- Our athletic director approved our new TRX TRAINING order. How does Coach Matusz choose which TRX exercise to use on a given day?
- I never want to move those racks and machines again!!! Never again! What makes REGUPOL ® Sports Flooring by SPECATHLETIC the best?
- How often does Coach Dave Lawson suggest that our players squat HEAVY?
- What are the features that make TEAMBUILDR®, the premier online strength & conditioning software, a terrific concept for training evaluation, standard and goal setting & athlete performance tracking.
- How did strength coach Dr.Ted Lambrinides prepare a young Kentucky Wildcats Basketball squad for their NCAA National Championship run in 2012, a team that include, now NBA superstar Anthony Davis?
- Basketball is a long season, how does long time veteran strength coach Shaun Brown keep his West Virginia Mountaineers Basketball squad
Clinic emcee Ted Lambrinides atNotre Dame Football Strength
strong, yet fresh during the season?
- What's Coach Al Johnson's advice on strength training during fall camp?
- How does WVU Mountaineers Head Football Strength Coach Mike Joseph design his program when taking into account the recovery that's necessary between workout?
Upcoming clinics:
Michigan State Annual Strength & Conditioning Clinic
Notre Dame Football Strength & Conditioning Clinic February 21-22, 2020
Georgia Tech Strength & Leadership Clinic February 21-22, 2020
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ASAP Strength Podcast with Cincinnati Bengals (ret) Strength Coach Kim Wood
Coach Kim Wood spent thirty years as a coach with the Cincinnati Bengals. He was hired by the venerable founder and first coach of the @Bengals Paul Brown. Keep in mind that this was during the Bengals' hey day, as the team appeared in two Super Bowls, one of which San Francisco 49er stars Joe Montana and Jerry Rice led hall of fame type performances in the final minutes to take the win out of the grasp of the Cincinnati Bengals, quarterback Boomer Esiason and their head coach Sam Wyche. That left Kim Wood to reload the weightroom jukebox at the "spartan" Spinney Field weightroom and rearrange the power racks, wooden jerk boxes and Hammer Strength machines.
Coach Wood has been a regular guest for the ASAP Strength Podcast features and his most popular podcasts (all-time) PLAY tally continue to keep a narrow lead over Alex Marvez, SiriusXM NFL Radio host and Pro Football Hall of Fame voter. Kind of a big deal!In this podcast, Kim Wood reminisces about the former Bengals coach Sam Wyche who recently succumbed to complications with melanoma.
We also discuss:
- the 2020 NCAA College Football National Championship match-up
- The NFL Play-offs
- the late Bengal head coach Sam Wyche
- the upcoming 2020 Michigan State Strength & Conditioning Clinic
- His son, John Wood will be a speaker/presenter at the Michigan State Strength Clinic, his Iron League, Oldtime Strongman Functional Hand Strength websites
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The 2020 Michigan State Spartans Annual Strength & Conditioning Clinic
Michigan State Strength Clinic: February 7 & 8th 2020
It's that time again to plan for professional development. Michigan State Football Strength & Conditioning, is presently prepping for its annual S & C Clinic that's to be conducted on February 7th and 8th of 2020.
Clinic Director Mike Vorkapich, Spartan Assistant Strength Coach, has assembled quite a strong list of clinicians that includes Ted Lambrinides who will serve as the Master of Ceremonies at The MSU Spartans Annual Strength & Conditioning Clinic at Michigan State University on February 7th and 8th 2020. Ted has spoken from coast to coast over the last 38 years on everything under the umbrella of sports and exercise science. Before embarking on his professional career, Lambrinides completed undergraduate, graduate and post graduate studies at The Ohio State University. He served for nine years as a collegiate strength and conditioning coach for the Buckeyes, his alma mater, and at The University of Kentucky. He's been been called upon as a guest speaker to many major college football programs where he's given streetwise and upfront talks to athletes about "Drugs, Supplements and Personal Conduct".Ted was able to continue sports science research as he coordinated the Exercise Physiology Department at Thomas More College….tweaking his methodologies while training many of the top athletes in the Greater Cincinnati Tri-State Region. As a sports performance consultant, Coach Lambrinides has provided expertise on performance training and ergogenic aids to numerous collegiate and professional football and basketball programs. He's frequented practically every SEC and Big Ten program and most NFL teams as well.
I have been to the MSU Spartan Strength & Conditioning Clinics since their inception and somehow they make it better and even more informative every year. This year's line up promises to be another special event for strength training professionals, students, trainers, physical therapists and personal trainers. It's an excellent opportunity for professional development and updating necessary CEU requirements for CSCCa and NSCA. Clinic Director Mike Vorkapich does an exceptional job organizing and getting the clinic off the ground. The speaking line-up is always top notch and this year will be no different as Head MSU Spartans Strength Coach Ken Mannie, Coach Lambrinides and the clinic staff will get attendees motivated to return to their respective sites with a renewed perspective for establishing updated goals for their programs.The clinic takes place at the Clara Bell Smith Academic Center right across from Spartan Stadium. It's a comfortable, climate controlled auditorium style learning environment with desk format to place electronic learning devices and laptops and notebooks. The practical "lab work" takes place in the Spartan Weight Room within Duffy Daugherty Building.
…… Ed Cicale December 2019
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ASAP Site Visit with Brandon Hourigan at Wake Forest Strength & Conditioning
From our most recent site visit to Wake Forest University, here's a few pics and some video from that trip. The Demon Deacs are settling in at their new facility on their beautiful campus in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. That's where Coach Brandon Hourigan and his hard working staff of Chad Bari, Nick Zinani, Chris Jones, Brendan Nave work their craft of getting the Deacs ready for Saturday afternoon performances and a lot of help from David Bass who is on the Olympic side, as well.
It's a big week at Wake Forest University for Brandon Hourigan and the Demon Deacs. The Director of Sports Performance for Football is prepping the football program for another bowl game as the Deacs are coming off another very successful season that has lead them to a berth in the Pinstripe Bowl with a match-up against the Michigan State Spartans. Wake Forest is going for a fourth straight bowl win. They've defeated Memphis, Texas A&M, and Temple in this current run and are hoping for more as they head to the Big Apple. New York, New York