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Muscles and Management
Over the last near decade, Gerry DeFilippo has trained THOUSANDS of athletes from the youth to pro level across all major team-sports.
Gerry started his gym and brand, Challenger Strength, as an ambitious 22 year old still finishing his college degree.
In the time since, he has built his facility and following into a nationally recognized performance company training thousands of athletes both in-person and online.
Gerry brings guests across all areas of sports and performance training, giving the listener inside access to his rolodex of collegiate, world renowned private and professional performance and sports coaches.
If you are looking to improve your own performance OR knowledge of performance/sports training (and learn how to shape your career), Muscles and Management is for you!
Muscles and Management
Episode #49 A Practical Approach to Addressing Multiple Needs in a Training Program
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*SHOW TIMESTAMPS FEATURED AT THE END*
In this episode Gerry returns solo to the mic to address and important topic in strength and conditioning: How do we determine the need for certain attributes (strength, power, speed etc.) and build them into a well balanced training program?
To start, the conversation discusses the importance of testing and using testing to assess what a particular athlete needs. This is the starting point in determining how much a program should focus on each particular attribute.
From there, Gerry discusses things like length of training cycles and how long you have to train, what the particular athlete is preparing for etc. and using them to determine the importance of each need and how much you should focus on it.
To finish, the episode gives a breakdown of what parts of your program you should track and a lesson on flexibility and following template driven programming.
All that and more on this episode of Muscles and Management!
Show Timestamps:
5:20- Tweet of The Week - In Season Programming
12:06- Addressing Multiple Needs in a Training Program
14:30- Why/When Conjugate Programming Makes Sense
16:25- Assess and Test Routinely
19:15- Attack Deficiencies
20:24- How Long You Have an Athlete For Affects Strategy
22:10- Mixing Dynamic and Full Effort Days
24:45- How Weight Affects Strength Ratio
25:51- Getting Results? Don’t Change Just To Change
29:00- Determining Priorities/Needs For Each Athlete
34:45- Determining Primary Goals and Using Them to Program
38:49- Accessories and Supplemental Movements
42:42- Adjusting Based on Athlete’s Sport
47:10- Don’t Plan Too Far Ahead, You Have To Adjust (Develop A Skeleton/Template)
54:54- Tracking Primary Movements
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