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 #183 Loaded Sled Sprints: Moving Slower to Get Faster
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In this episode, Gerry is here to give you a rundown on the art of sled sprinting and tips you can use to add it to your training.
To start, Gerry touches on a review of his week of tweets. From progressive overload and building strength, programming templates for coaches and moving past thinking “this is what we did in my day,” a wide variety of topics are reviewed.
From there, the conversation shifts to everything sled sprinting. Dispelling myths about resisted sprinting, benefits for mechanics and output and all the way to loading strategies. This podcast gives the full layout to a coach or athlete looking to learn about loaded sprints.
All that and more on this episode of Muscles and Management!
Episode Timestamps
3:55 - Complete Guide to In-Season Programming
5:05 - This Week in Tweets: Maxing out, Breaking from old Habits, and Programming Templates
14:03 - Tweet of the Week
15:54 - Loaded Sprinting: Common Myths
25:18 - Mechanical Benefits of Loaded Sprinting
29:00 - Output Benefits of Loaded Sprinting
31:33 - Mechanical Issues to Consider when Doing Loaded Sprints
32:45 - General Loading Principles
38:30 - Loading Based on Time
44:45 - Other Tools for Building Sprint Speed
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