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 #33 Foundations of Blazing Speed with Joseph Potts (Top Speed LLC.)
In this episode Gerry welcomes Joseph Potts of Top Speed LLC. to talk all things speed, agility and building blazing fast athletes.
Right off the bat the discussion talks about speed ladders and Joseph and Gerry discuss the many misconceptions some have in terms of how useful speed ladders are. From ground impulse and force displacement, rehearsing patterns and cuing short and choppy strides, the ladder does not provide much when it comes to linear speed AND agility.
From there, the two discuss EVERYTHING related to speed, starting with force development and strength training all the way to rate of force development, velocity based training, elasticity and reactivity and how it all plays in to build speed. Joseph gives his take on his favorite ways to utilize all of those modalities to make his athletes faster and Gerry gives some tips to how you can utilize sleds in your strength and speed training.
To finish up, the conversation discusses the finer points of acceleration and top speed mechanics of the sprint, giving the listener a comprehensive view of what goes into building and maintaining speed as an athlete and coach.
Do you want a GUARANTEED 0.2-0.5 seconds off your 60 time in just 8 weeks... just in time for baseball season?
Click the link to access the Diamond Speed Protocol, a speed program designed by Gerry to get you the fastest you've ever been!