ATHLETIC STRENGTH AND POWER

Professional Development for 2015

I went to my first strength training and conditioning clinic back in 1983. At the time, I was a graduate assistant strength coach at The Ohio State University. The Head Strength Coach, Steve Bliss, was adamant about his staff seeking out ways to improve their coaching by gaining more knowledge and insight on both the science.... and art.... of strength training and conditioning of athletes.
One of the first clinics that I attended was a clinic in Cincinnati where Cincinnati Bengals' Strength Coach Kim Wood was a speaker. The University of Michigan was represented by their strength coach Mike Gittleson. And, a guy who created and wrote The Steel Tip was there, too; Ken Leistner.  These guys were amazing. And, they had some of their athletes on hand to perform some demonstration workouts. These were not the workouts of the local Planet Fitness variety. These guys were going at it with a fervor that most of the coaches in attendance had never seen before.

Coach Wood had some of his Bengal players go through a series of exercises and the coaches in attendance took heed! Since the Bengals had recently been a Super Bowl contestant,  just about every coach had their notebooks and legal pads going full tilt. Nobody scrolled their text messages or email accounts back then!

Anyway, a few days later, a bunch of grad assistants at Ohio State were busy using their new found knowledge. Young Buckeye football players like Jim Lachey, Keith Byars, Chris Spielman and Jeff Uhlenhake were subjected to a new and intense approach to their workouts. Coach Bliss and his assistant, Ted Lambrinides beamed with approval.

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8th Annual MSU Spartans Strength & Conditioning Clinic

 

Coach Ken Mannie and Coach Mike Vorkapich have announced their plans and itinerary for their Michigan State University 8th Annual Spartans Strength & Conditioning Clinic on February 6th and 7th 2015.

--Press Release--

East Lansing, Michigan

 “Tips from the Trenches with the Spartan Strength Staff” will again be a FREE event on Friday evening followed by a great Saturday line-up to be emceed by Dr. Ted Lambrinides, Director of Sports Science for Athletic Strength And Power (ASAP). The complete speaker lineup includes:

Ted Rath - Detroit Lions’ Strength Assistant

Rob Stock - Navy Seal and founder of Human Performance Initiative

Eric Klein - Minnesota Golden Gophers’ Head Strength Coach

Ron McKeefery - Eastern Michigan’s Director of Sports Performance  

Dr. Joey Eisenmann – Director of Spartan Nutrition and Performance Program

And as always, Ken Mannie and the Spartan Strength staff will be on-hand for a roundtable discussion. New this year – each clinic attendee will receive videos of all speakers via email!!!

Spartan Clinic Speaker Topics

 

Ted Lambrinides

• Master of Ceremonies:  2015 MSU Spartan Strength & Conditioning Clinic 

It's that time again to plan for professional development. We at ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power are looking ahead, too. In fact, our Director of Sports Science Ted Lambrinides will serve as the Master of Ceremonies at The Eighth Annual Spartan Strength & Conditioning Clinic at Michigan State University on February 6th and 7th 2015.
Ted has spoken from coast to coast over the last 33 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.
Recently, 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". His most recent talks have been to the football squads at the Michigan State Spartans, the Mississippi State Bulldogs and the Ohio State Buckeyes.
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. In fact, the past two years he's visited  practically every SEC and Big Ten program and several NFL teams as well. 

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