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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 #187 Why Transferability to Sport in Strength and Speed Training is a Better Mindset Than “Specificity,” to Sport
Send us your questions, or thoughts on today's episode!
*SHOW TIMESTAMPS FEATURED AT THE END*
In this episode, Gerry starts things off as usual with a recap of last week's episode on building a social media brand and discusses some of the key points from the episode. Then, he gets into his favorite tweets from the past week as well as answering one of YOUR questions.
From there, the conversation shifts to the show topic, "sport specific training." Gerry talks about his preference for the terms transferability over specificity and the pitfalls of looking at the surface of a sport movement and trying to replicate it in training.
Then, everything you need to know about transferability is addressed including watching sport, learning about it and aiming to find all the aspects that go into a movement. This includes planes of motion, speed of movement, energy systems and more.
If you want to better understand the balance and relationship between training and sport, this episode is for you!
All that and more on this episode of Muscles and Management!
Episode Timestamps
6:10 - Week in Tweets
16:20 - Guidelines, Protocols, and Principles in the Weight Room
19:00 - Basic Terminology and Common Misconceptions
20:27 - Idea of “Sport Specific” and Avoiding Confusion
21:30 - Robustness vs. Sport Qualities
22:30 - Transferability
25:30 - Biggest Issues with Specificity
27:45 - Unstable Surface Training
30:35 - Marketing Ploy’s of Specificity
31:36 - Understanding Sports and What They Require
37:40 - Timeline for Transferability
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