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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 #104 Foundations of Speed Training with Graham Eaton (@grahamsprints)
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In this episode Gerry welcomes on track and field coach Graham Eaton.
Graham has an extensive background as a sprint coach and joins the show to shed some light on what he does to help his athletes be successful and get faster.
To start, Graham discusses the coaches and biggest influences on his philosophies, as well as some changes he made in his mentality in coaching sprints and what prompted them.
From there, the conversation turns to teaching a coach to effectively coach sprinting, remaining consistent/sticking to the plan and all mechanical aspects of sprinting (acceleration AND top speed)
All that and more on this episode of Muscles and Management!
Episode Timestamps
3:04 - Weekly Nutrition Tip with Julian
7:30 - Background on Graham
19:22 - Graham’s Biggest Influences
26:05 - Graham’s Main Coaching Philosophies
30:20 - Biggest Changes in Graham’s Mentality
32:22 - How to Teach a Coach on Sprinting
40:20 - Getting Caught up in Constantly Switching Things for Athletes
58:35 - Static Vs Moving Starts When Sprinting
1:01:37 - Most Important Phases for Acceleration and Top Speed
1:07:05 - Arms in Sprinting
1:08:35 - Graham’s Closing Thoughts
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