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Five months into this COVID-19 chronicle of shutdowns and testings and masks and re-openings, there now appears to be minute amount of light at the end of the tunnel. Soon, things will be moving back to 20,000 fans at Ohio Stadium for Buckeye Football. The New York Yankees game but no fans in attendance. The NBA in Orlando. Seems hard to grasp. But now reality.
Lucky for me, I have tons of archived training footage and photos, and I'll be adjusting with more ZOOMed ASAP~Podcasts.
But for the strength and conditioning professionals out there, art and science is approaching a collision course. Coronavirus testing formats have changed the strength training groups and the way the training is assembled is the first noticeable change. Facility cleaning is in hyper mode. Every crevice in a training center could hold in germs.
So, now's the time to take a closer examination of the tools that we use in training our athletes. Just the other day, I was able to connect with Tom Grace, a long time strength and conditioning equipment professional who is presently located in Vancouver, Washington with his wife, Juanita . Their business is known as Black Iron Strength and they may just have one of the most time-relevant, innovative products available to the strength and conditioning industry. A complete line of antimicrobial copper strength training equipment. This is the wave of the future. Check it out:

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What is Antimicrobial Copper CuLEAN® by CuVerro®?

Many ancient cultures, including the Egyptians, Romans and Greeks, recognized the inherent antimicrobial properties of copper. Copper-lined vessels were used to sterilize drinking water. Copper compounds were used to treat wounds and infections. With the recent outbreaks of untreatable infections including MRSA, which is often traced back to the work out facility. Black Iron Strength® took the ancient technology of copper and applied it to strength equipment. With this patented technology, Black Iron Strength® is the only equipment manufacturer to offer to offer free weight equipment with copper touch points. Copper surfaces by CuVerro® has been shown to kill more than 99% of bacteria within two hours of contact. Given that bacteria can survive on surfaces for months, Black Iron Strength® prefers to use CuLEAN® Antimicrobial Copper on their products and equipment. It is simply the best material for all surfaces as bacteria cannot thrive or survive on it.

ASAP Podcast with TEAMBUILDR Founder Hewitt Tomlin

TEAMBUILDR, one of our longtime ASAP sponsors, has continued to make some great strides in the strength training and conditioning business, even during a COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, their industry leading online strength & conditioning software has become even more of a game changer for strength coaches everywhere. While the Tennessee Vols, West Virginia Mountaineers and the Golden State Warriors strength and conditioning programs have been major players who have reaped the rewards of using TEAMBUILDR, many other high schools, college programs and professional teams are now under the TEAMBUILDR umbrella. And as a matter of fact, the most fiscally successful and most prominent collegiate athletic program in all of sports, the Ohio State University Buckeyes, have signed on with Hewitt Tomlin's TEAMBUILDR, as Coach Mickey Marotti is delving into the software.

In the ASAP Podcast, our initial attempt at a ZOOM recording, TEAMBUILDR founder Hewitt Tomlin explains the many advantages of using this powerful coaching tool, which is becoming even more beneficial during a shutdown that has left a strength coaching fraternity scrambling for ways to train their athletes from a distance.

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The Tennessee Vols have been on board with TEAMBUILDR on Rocky Top

The West Virginia Moutaineers are one of The BIG12 schools who use TEAMBUILDR online Strength & Conditioning Software

Performance Four Web Clinic 2020 Basketball Strength & Conditioning

West Virginia Mountaineers' Men's Basketball strength and conditioning coach Shaun Brown has had to make fast break transition for his annual Performance Four Strength & Conditioning Clinic this year. Yes, the China Virus zapped The Final Four Atlanta and of course, The Performance Four ATL. Both were set to be huge events, but Coach Brown has gathered his resources and has come up with an alternative rescue!

Using technology support from Hammer Strength, the clinic will switch to an online format. So, coaches can live-stream this clinic on April 9th from 1-5 pm. It has a very reasonable $50 fee and only $15 for high school coaches.

The PERFORMANCE FOUR Strength Clinic

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Thursday, April 9, 2020

1:00-5:00 PM EST

Speakers:

The 2020 Performance Four Clinic Emcee is Ted Lambrinides. He's a nationally recognized former strength training & conditioning coach (Ohio State Buckeyes, Kentucky Wildcats), an NFL Player Tracking analyst, and sports performance consultant for a multitude of NFL and collegiate strength coaches. He's been speaking at clinics in the USA, Australia and Japan since 1982 and has had firsthand studies in the former Soviet Union.

- University of Kentucky - Robert Harris

- North Carolina State University - Pat Murphy

- West Virginia University Sports Scientist - Jason Stone

- Clemson University - Mike Bewley

- Georgia State University - Justin Landry

The clinic is open to all College & High School Strength & Conditioning coaches.

The cost is $50 per person.

*For more information please contact Shaun Brown - shaun.brown@mail.wvu.edu or (304) 288-9958

Follow The Performance Four on twitter: @Performance_4

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ASAP Podcast with Houston Astros Manager Dusty Baker

Think you've seen and know a little bit about baseball? Imagine being involved with nearly 6,000 games! That's how much involvement in the game of baseball that today's ASAP Podcast guest Dusty Baker has had. Baker knows the history of the game from his days as a kid...with his own heroes. History of the game as a star player. History of the game with today's brand of game and players, too. And he has the stories to go with the experience. For example, in this podcast, Dusty talks about some of the "strength training" that he and the great and legendary Hank Aaron did. He also tells about the evolution of strength training in baseball and how different it was.

And how about these stats?

NLCS MVP
World Series Champ
Two time All Star
Gold Glove Award
Silver Slugger
Four Times Manager of the Year

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The Strength & Conditioning Clinic

It's strength clinic time and there are several reasons to get to one. For one, I've never been to a clinic where I did not return home with something newly added to my coaching toolbox. Fresh content! For example:

Some new techniques and coaching points to use when coaching your athletes.
Or, another way to incorporate certain exercises or lifts into the scope of the training program.
Are my athletes too young to try that lift and will it require too much time and coaching to stir it into the entire training program?
Should our program be a three day per week workout or a four day split? What's Coach Brady Collins' philosophy at Cincinnati Bearcats?
Where should we place our Pit Shark® for optimal use?
What are the pros and cons of choosing a POWERLIFT rack as opposed to the Sorinex model?
How can I educate the entire coaching staff at our school so that we're on the same page?
What is Coach Kenn's purpose for coaching the athletic position?
Our players need more toughness! How does Coach Marotti instill this with his Buckeyes/
Yoga??? It's definitely a piece that needs to be incorporated into our program. How can we add this into our workouts?
How does Coach Ken Mannie develop his Spartan "earned, never given" philosophy?
My star running back plays basketball AND baseball. Now what???
Our athletic director approved our new TRX TRAINING order. How does Coach Matusz choose which TRX exercise to use on a given day?
I never want to move those racks and machines again!!! Never again! What makes REGUPOL ® Sports Flooring by SPECATHLETIC the best?
How often does Coach Dave Lawson suggest that our players squat HEAVY?
What are the features that make TEAMBUILDR®, the premier online strength & conditioning software, a terrific concept for training evaluation, standard and goal setting & athlete performance tracking.
How did strength coach Dr.Ted Lambrinides prepare a young Kentucky Wildcats Basketball squad for their NCAA National Championship run in 2012, a team that include, now NBA superstar Anthony Davis?
Basketball is a long season, how does long time veteran strength coach Shaun Brown keep his West Virginia Mountaineers Basketball squad strong, yet fresh during the season?
What's Coach Al Johnson's advice on strength training during fall camp?
How does WVU Mountaineers Head Football Strength Coach Mike Joseph design his program when taking into account the recovery that's necessary between workout?

Upcoming clinics:

Michigan State Annual Strength & Conditioning Clinic

Notre Dame Football Strength & Conditioning Clinic February 21-22, 2020

Georgia Tech Strength & Leadership Clinic February 21-22, 2020

ASAP Strength Podcast with Cincinnati Bengals (ret) Strength Coach Kim Wood

Coach Kim Wood spent thirty years as a coach with the Cincinnati Bengals. He was hired by the venerable founder and first coach of the @Bengals Paul Brown. Keep in mind that this was during the Bengals' hey day, as the team appeared in two Super Bowls, one of which San Francisco 49er stars Joe Montana and Jerry Rice led hall of fame type performances in the final minutes to take the win out of the grasp of the Cincinnati Bengals, quarterback Boomer Esiason and their head coach Sam Wyche. That left Kim Wood to reload the weightroom jukebox at the "spartan" Spinney Field weightroom and rearrange the power racks, wooden jerk boxes and Hammer Strength machines.
Coach Wood has been a regular guest for the ASAP Strength Podcast features and his most popular podcasts (all-time) PLAY tally continue to keep a narrow lead over Alex Marvez, SiriusXM NFL Radio host and Pro Football Hall of Fame voter. Kind of a big deal!

In this podcast, Kim Wood reminisces about the former Bengals coach Sam Wyche who recently succumbed to complications with melanoma.

We also discuss:

the 2020 NCAA College Football National Championship match-up
The NFL Play-offs
the late Bengal head coach Sam Wyche
the upcoming 2020 Michigan State Strength & Conditioning Clinic
His son, John Wood will be a speaker/presenter at the Michigan State Strength Clinic, his Iron League, Oldtime Strongman Functional Hand Strength websites
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The 2020 Michigan State Spartans Annual Strength & Conditioning Clinic

Michigan State Strength Clinic: February 7 & 8th 2020

It's that time again to plan for professional development. Michigan State Football Strength & Conditioning, is presently prepping for its annual S & C Clinic that's to be conducted on February 7th and 8th of 2020.
Clinic Director Mike Vorkapich, Spartan Assistant Strength Coach, has assembled quite a strong list of clinicians that includes Ted Lambrinides who will serve as the Master of Ceremonies at The MSU Spartans Annual Strength & Conditioning Clinic at Michigan State University on February 7th and 8th 2020. Ted has spoken from coast to coast over the last 38 years on everything under the umbrella of sports and exercise science. Before embarking on his professional career, Lambrinides completed undergraduate, graduate and post graduate studies at The Ohio State University. He served for nine years as a collegiate strength and conditioning coach for the Buckeyes, his alma mater, and at The University of Kentucky. He's been been called upon as a guest speaker to many major college football programs where he's given streetwise and upfront talks to athletes about "Drugs, Supplements and Personal Conduct".

Ted was able to continue sports science research as he coordinated the Exercise Physiology Department at Thomas More College....tweaking his methodologies while training many of the top athletes in the Greater Cincinnati Tri-State Region. As a sports performance consultant, Coach Lambrinides has provided expertise on performance training and ergogenic aids to numerous collegiate and professional football and basketball programs. He's frequented practically every SEC and Big Ten program and most NFL teams as well.

I have been to the MSU Spartan Strength & Conditioning Clinics since their inception and somehow they make it better and even more informative every year. This year's line up promises to be another special event for strength training professionals, students, trainers, physical therapists and personal trainers. It's an excellent opportunity for professional development and updating necessary CEU requirements for CSCCa and NSCA. Clinic Director Mike Vorkapich does an exceptional job organizing and getting the clinic off the ground. The speaking line-up is always top notch and this year will be no different as Head MSU Spartans Strength Coach Ken Mannie, Coach Lambrinides and the clinic staff will get attendees motivated to return to their respective sites with a renewed perspective for establishing updated goals for their programs.

CLICK HERE for the 2020 MSU Strength Clinic Info

The clinic takes place at the Clara Bell Smith Academic Center right across from Spartan Stadium. It's a comfortable, climate controlled auditorium style learning environment with desk format to place electronic learning devices and laptops and notebooks. The practical "lab work" takes place in the Spartan Weight Room within Duffy Daugherty Building.

...... Ed Cicale December 2019

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ASAP Site Visit with Brandon Hourigan at Wake Forest Strength & Conditioning

From our most recent site visit to Wake Forest University, here's a few pics and some video from that trip. The Demon Deacs are settling in at their new facility on their beautiful campus in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. That's where Coach Brandon Hourigan and his hard working staff of Chad Bari, Nick Zinani, Chris Jones, Brendan Nave work their craft of getting the Deacs ready for Saturday afternoon performances and a lot of help from David Bass who is on the Olympic side, as well.

It's a big week at Wake Forest University for Brandon Hourigan and the Demon Deacs. The Director of Sports Performance for Football is prepping the football program for another bowl game as the Deacs are coming off another very successful season that has lead them to a berth in the Pinstripe Bowl with a match-up against the Michigan State Spartans. Wake Forest is going for a fourth straight bowl win. They've defeated Memphis, Texas A&M, and Temple in this current run and are hoping for more as they head to the Big Apple. New York, New York

ASAP at Georgia Tech Strength & Conditioning

Talk about a swarm of Yellow Jackets! This Georgia Tech Football squad was on the go during my most recent visit to Atlanta, as head strength Coach Lew Caralla certainly had things stirred up. This particular workout that sport science researcher and NFL player tracking specialist Dr. Ted Lambrinides and I witnessed consisted of some team building activities, some very well executed squat sets, some single-arm dumbbell bench presses. There was also a pretty serious bar hang competition going on.

Coach Caralla was appointed as head strength and conditioning coach when newly incoming head football coach Geoff Collins arrived in the ATL. Caralla hit the ground running as he assembled his staff of Ryan Horton, Ed Thompson,Kyle Seger and Zach Reed.
The hard work being done is starting to pay off now as the Rambling Wreck are transitioning from being a triple option centered offense to a more pro-style one. The recruiting focus shifts to targeting different types of players that fit the new scheme. But, in the mean time, the GT Yellow Jackets earned themselves a prime time win on their home field at Bobby Dodd Stadium. Georgia Tech jumped out to a quick lead and then watched their defense hold off late game surges by the Wolfpack of North Carolina State University. Coach Collins also put the ball in the hands of their star runner, Jordan Mason, who was able to churn out over 140 yards of rushing as the Georgia Tech offensive line was able to jell when it was most needed.

The strength training facility is located within the football home of the Yellow Jackets, Bobby Dodd Stadium. The scoreboard flashed a message, but nobody was there to see it. However, just a short walk through the tunnel and it was a complete contrast to the action inside the weightroom. We entered the Hugh Spruill Strength Training Center at 5:44 a.m. as the strength staff made preparations for the workout. A few minutes later... the action.

ASAP Fact: On December 10, 1936, just 2 months after former head football coach John Heisman's death on October 3, the Downtown Athletic Club (New York City) trophy was renamed the Heisman Memorial Trophy, and is now given to the player voted as the season's most outstanding collegiate football player.

Georgia Tech's fabled Bobby Dodd Stadium 5:42 a.m.

The Rambling Wreck in training at The Georgia Institute of Technology

More pics from Georgia Tech.... Click Here

Michigan State Football at Ohio State Buckeyes

The Michigan State Spartans, ranked #25 in the AP Top 25 Poll came into Ohio Stadium with one thought in mind. Knock off the #4 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. MSU Coach Mark Dantonio knows how it can be done. He and his MSU squad had done it before and certainly believed it could be done again. And, with only a three point deficit after the first quarter, Michigan State, with their much vaunted and respected defense, had to feel that they could keep things tight. Then, Ohio State stumbled on capitalizing on turnovers. Third down conversions didn't gel. Michigan State played their patented tough-as-nails Spartan "D". However, the Spartan offense struggled to get a foothold against a Buckeye defense that is extremely stingy in their own right. In fact, OSU defensive line coach Larry Johnson has been cranking out a ton of talent lately. Past stars Joey Bosa, Nick Bosa Sam Hubbard, and now Chase Young are all members or former members of Johnson's "rushmen" crew. If you can't find ways to score on these guys, it's just a matter of time before the Ohio State offense, loaded with the speed and size that can strike at almost anytime, will put up enough points to win the contest.
Following the game, Buckeye Head Coach Ryan Day presented the Buckeyes' head strength and conditioning Coach Mickey Marotti with the game ball stating that "he's the guy this whole thing is built upon. He's the backbone.... the blood that runs through this whole program. And to say that we're tough, it's because of him and his strength staff and all the work that they put in with these (Buckeyes)".
Congratulations to Coach Mick on this honor!

Asst. A.D. for Football Sports Performance Mickey Marotti was awarded the game from Head Football Coach Ryan Day.

Click here for all of the pics from the game

ASAP PODCAST with Tennessee Vols Director of Olympic Sports Performance: Dan Wirth

Dr Ted Lambrinides (L) sharing a conversation with Coach Dan Wirth in the Sports Science Lab at The University of Tennessee. It's remarkable to see the upgrades that have occurred here in Knoxville.

The Pics and video from The University of Tennessee

Online strength and conditioning software plays a very significant role with the University of Tennessee Vols strength training program. With the exceptional number of athletes at this Southeastern Conference (SEC) school, the online software is conducive to managing an infinite number of trainees. Discover more about this TEAMBUILDR platform that offers coaches & trainers the opportunity to put training programs online in our exclusive ASAP PODCAST with Coach Dan Wirth.

ASAP PODCAST with Tennessee Director of Olympic Sports Performance

Coach Dan Wirth

ASAP at Ohio State Basketball with S&C Coach Quadrian Banks

Ohio State Basketball Director of Strength & Conditioning: Coach Quadrian Banks
Coach "Q" is responsible for directing the basketball performance training game plan and works directly with Ohio State Basketball Coach Chris Holtmann They're in their third year together and the blueprint is very goal oriented: prepare the Buckeye basketball program for the demands of an upper echelon, college basketball schedule. With a season timetable that includes the likes of Michigan State, West Virginia, Kentucky, Cincinnati, Villanova, North Carolina, Maryland, and the Big Ten foes, Coach Banks has been energizing this squad for what promises to be action packed challenges!

Ohio State Basketball players are reminded everyday of the tradition that has transpired here in Columbus. John Havliicek, Jerry Lucas, Clark Kellogg, Jim Jackson, Herb Williams, Michael Redd, Mike Conley. BOOM. The Schottenstein Center hallways are filled with memorabilia of a storied college basketball program and the present day stars can't help but take note as they head to their daily workout and practice sessions.