silverback- right now most my income will be made from my other job…the facility will be more of a club for those in the area that love to train…if i make money from it great…but i am going to keep the overhead preety low and have most the the equipment already…the number of plers i have alone that are interested should be enough to make some money from it…do you have the new martin rooney dynamic warmup tape???..bm
I have both the Dynamic Warm-up and the Deceleration Video…
His dynamic warm-up is good, but pretty basic stuff… if you are abreast of what is going on in the training world, you should already be doing something similar…
There are actually a few moves he recommends that I feel I take care of better, as he has some movements that come across as very similar to floor work in aerobics… not sure I could sell that to the kids… good stuff, but we might have to get those thick ankle socks dancers wear if we were to do them…
so mostly the warm-up video didn’t alter my warm-up sequence at all…
i liked the deceleration tape (the brand new one). It covered some points that WSB’s don’t address often… being that they emphasize a quick eccentric mostly. Like me, they recommend a slower controlled eccentric, as this is how an athlete decelerates…a much misunderstood aspect of quickness… so, i personally have my athletes do a 3 count eccentric during repetition method lifts, but a quick eccentric during power and MaxS work.
So I was mor impressed with the deceleration tape, as it showed a couple moves I include as part of my dynamic warm-up for movement training…which is different than my warm-up for lifting…
let me know if you’d like to borrow either or both… i also have a pretty good library of other stuff, including some of Scott aSonnon’s stuff, Paul Vunak Stuff, etc, plus the CF GPP video is a good one to understand more about his view of the GPP phase of training…
the girl in CF’s video has gorgeous running form… stunning
anyway, the facility sounds great… just looking out for your future, as i think it will be great…
I would not worry about power and instead focus on strength (strength is more trainable then speed-strength/strength-speed) and Hypotrophy. The said athlete needs to first develop a sound foundation which can be built of later using more advanced methods. An excellent foundation program would be to alternate Hypotrophy (structural) and Strength (functional) weeks:
Week # 1= Strength (functional)
Week # 2= Hypotrophy (structural)
Week # 3= Strength (functional)
Week # 4= Hypotrophy (structural)
By the way I think the tier system is effective but would not be a wise choice for the high school athlete. Think of the pyramid of conditioning; use basic methods until the trainee becomes more advance then factor the more advance methods in to the equation. Remember there are no best routines only the best at the time. Don?t forget the energy system work.
Hope that helps!
Very true Boss,
but, if you get kids from the summer of 8th grade until they graduate, then their training age would dictate that some more advanced techniques depending on their commitment.
This is why we have differing programs based on preparedness, and not necessarily grade level. There are always those boys that are fully developed at the age og 16, while I was 5’9" 122 lbs… barely a girl.
But, I would agree that if kids were just to stick consistently to the basics, they would be far better off than 99.99% of the kids out there.
TheSilverback I like to stick to the basics (strength and hypotrophy) with the admittedly few high school kids I train. I do agree with you on that the methods should be based on training age not grade level, but from what I’ve seen most high school athletes are in absolute terrible shape so would benefit the most from strength and GPP work not power. That is way I don’t agree with Coach D’s programs, it is rash to train a high school athlete for power production when the athlete can’t even do a 200lb squat, come on! Strength should be the primary focus with maybe secondary emphases on speed! One of my high school football players used Coach D’s program for 6 months he did increased his power, but his strength only increased a very little. Coach D does do an excellent job on GPP, and power development but his programs are better suited for advanced athletes not kids whom don’t possess a base level of fitness (a foundation). You can’t build a house with out a foundation can you?