Anyone watching this show?
It’s pretty strange. The methods are weird. Complexes for hypertrophy?
[quote]jp_dubya wrote:
It’s pretty strange. The methods are weird. Complexes for hypertrophy?[/quote]
Wouldn’t surprise me. The guy they have doing it, Mike Barwis, looks like he was just the S&C coach for Michigan. Weirdly, football programs rarely have an actual competent strength program.
Saw 1 episode just last night. The whole show was kind of awkward, I think. Even the relationships between the different football players seemed a bit weird to me.
I will say this about the guy, while I think his methods regarding training athletes are confusing judging by the show (although you never know how much is edited out, squats don’t make for good tv), his work with severe spinal injuries is phenomenal. I don’t know what he does but he gets results. I knew who he was from a couple of other sources specifically relating to rehabilitation before the show came out.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]jp_dubya wrote:
It’s pretty strange. The methods are weird. Complexes for hypertrophy?[/quote]
Wouldn’t surprise me. The guy they have doing it, Mike Barwis, looks like he was just the S&C coach for Michigan. Weirdly, football programs rarely have an actual competent strength program.[/quote]
His Gym is about 45 minutes from me but I have never heard of him. He has a line of supplements called BM. Anyone for a BM shake?
In the first episode he mentioned Hypertrophy 9000 times. Also if I was an NFL player on a contract year I would not be doing anything to absolute failure and risk injury Like those “hypertrophy complexes” and 260lb lunges to failure.
However, from what I have read online he is a pretty accomplished trainer, and that facility looks pretty awesome. With anything it all seems somewhat staged with the pros and especially the Suh episode.
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I hope the hypertrophy! Complexes to failure doesn’t become “a thing.” It seemed like some of the worst parts of crossfit with real weight. Outside of that I’m glad to people do something on TV besides bitch, sip wine, and do made for the camera stunts.
He’s sort of skinny for renowned strength coach but I’m a little biased because he reminds me of a coach I had that tortured (ok, it felt that way in high school) me. He was a bastard but he taught me to bleed in training to win in the world.
Channel?
i wanted to see it, but haven’t caught it yet. i don’t see it On Demand either. so is it worth watching?
Being from michigan and a Huge Wolverines fan I may be a bit biased. But from what I know they guy is known for his extreme conditiong. Spread offenses require a leaner faster athlete who is in better condition to run many More plays a game than a typical offense would. He has become known as the best at that originally. Coming to Michigan put him more in the public eye and took what he was doing to a more public forum.
His arrival was an eye opener. Michigan athletes in the football program are pretty darn good. … but mikes arrival showed this program what the next level of conditioning was. Athletes admitting how much better shape they were in after Mikes programs. Along with physical differences in how the looked leaner/more defined.
Even after Rich rods and there his self departure from Ann Arbor… Michigan football players sought him solely out to prepare them for their Nfl Combines. Brandon Graham/Mike Martin/David Molk ect… thats sayin somethin.
As far as the show goes. It looks like he got big. Real fast. There so much goin on I feel like we are only getting bits and clips of the whole picture. While the big money is in the players like Suh and Richard Sherman seeking him out in the off season. His work with paralyzed people and taking them to a walking state again has gained world wide attention . Now add I the avge Joes/ house moms that he also work with and you have allot of diff. Layers goin on here.
His methods, as shown, may be different. But this is just a glimpse and it is a show…so has to be entertaining. Also keep in mind these are pro athletes being asked to do these sessions. Not your or I.