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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 #107 Meathead Monday: The TRUE Meaning of Individualized Programming
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In this episode Gerry discusses a hot topic in strength and conditioning, individualized programming.
The idea of changing or altering aspects of a program for the needs of an individual athlete has slowly turned into a token/novel idea, sometimes geared at boosting the perceived value of training.
The conversation starts with the inspiration for the discussion and the idea of token individualization and how many have the misconception that every exercise of aspect of a program needs to be changed for each individual. Gerry explains how to look at the general aspects of athletes (age and training age) and how experience can show what things are steadfast for athletes and need not be changed. It is not variations that make a program individualized, but rather load and how we determine what loading they need.
From there, the discussion turns to assessments (actually using them) and how you should combine assessments and general knowledge about athletes and their age range to make decisions on what specific needs they have. Then, to finish up, Gerry discusses tracking loads for individual athletes and assessing progress as programming continues.
All that and more on this episode of Muscles and Management!
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