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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 #70 University of South Carolina Director of Sports Performance Billy Anderson
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*SHOW TIMESTAMPS FEATURED AT THE END*
In this episode Gerry talks to University of South Carolina Director of Sports Performance Billy Anderson.
Billy works specifically with the National Championship winning Baseball Team as well as both Female and Male golfers.
To start, the conversation turns to rotational power and how to go about building elite rotational ability in baseball players and golfers. The two talk about the importance of the core resisting rotation, extension etc. in building rotational power. Additionally, Billy discusses his strategies for training rotation in season when there are high volumes of rotating in sport.
From there, the two discuss general strength training principles like calculating diminishing returns of strength training through force-velocity profiling, energy systems, in-season training and more.
All that and more on this episode of Muscles and Management!
Episode Timestamps:
6:25 - Some Positives of the Current Situation
8:45 - Rotational Power & Lower Power
11:05 - Billy’s Thoughts on Lifting Schedule In-Season
17:45 - Coaches Trusting Strength Coaches
22:00 - Managing Relationships with Coaches
26:00 - Weightlifting & Arm Injuries
31:00 - How Teams Treat Injuries: Then and Now
36:20 - Rotational Movement & How to Train it In-Season
42:15 - The Idea Golfers Shouldn’t Strength Train
47:45 - Training Women
49:00 - How Strong is Strong Enough?
55:22 - Vertical Jump Testing
1:03:25 - Baseball, Acceleration, & the Use of 60’s
1:12:45 - Billy’s Final Thoughts
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