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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 #72 Skill Acquisition, Creating Effective Training Environments and Bridging the Gap between S&C and Sport with Tyler Yearby
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*SHOW TIMESTAMPS FEATURED AT THE END*
In this episode Gerry welcomes on Tyler Yearby of Emergence Movement, a sports movement specialist helping athletes with skill acquisition and bridging the gap between strength training and sport.
To start, the conversation takes a look at agility and the need to have athletes participate in random and uncontrolled environments that can challenge their ability to create solutions to situations that are presented to their usual movements and tasks in their sports.
Tyler discusses that athletes can develop pre-determined solutions to issues they have been exposed to and thus turn to them when faced with those similar decision making situations. This, combined with the physical qualities involved in changing direction encompass agility and an athlete's ability to effectively navigate the environments of their sport.
To finish up, Tyler and Gerry discuss how we can best bridge the gap of strength and conditioning to sport for the sake of best preparing athletes.
All that and more on this episode of Muscles and Management!
Show Timestamps:
8:00 - Servicing Clients Remotely During Covid-19
10:40 - Tyler’s Sports and Training Growing Up
14:15 - The Variable of Time & the Use of Conjugate Programing
21:54 - How the Brain is Connected to Exercise
31:00 - 4 Stages of Skill Development
34:00 - Agility Ladders, Force Exertion in Movement, & Other Variables
43:00 - Tyler’s Mindset on Removing Limiting Factors Such as Strength & the Correlation to Young Athletes
51:20 - Should Strength and Skill Coaches be Seperate?
1:00:00 - Energy Systems, Offseasons, and GPP
1:04:29 - Tyler’s Closing Thoughts
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