ATHLETIC STRENGTH AND POWER

ASAP at Tennessee Vols with Director of Olympic Sports Performance Dan Wirth

When I first met Dan Wirth in 1994, he was the Director of Strength & Conditioning at The University of Arizona. Dan was the head strength coach for the Wildcats football team under head football coach Dick Tomey, the school's all-time winningest coach. Think Desert Swarm..... Tedy Bruschi .... Chuck Cecil. Coach Wirth assisted me with some football strength program design while I was coaching at Ohio's largest enrollment high school, Cincinnati Oak Hills. I visited Tucson several times and was always able to pick up some fresh ideas to tweak my program back in Cincy. Plus, I got to meet legendary basketball coach Lute Olson the day after their national championship parade..... sitting in his office talking hoops with the winning coach!

Coach Dan Wirth(right)with Sports Science Expert Dr.Ted Lambrinides 

Anyway, fast forward twenty-five years and Dan Wirth is still at it. But, now in Knoxville at The University of Tennessee. There's no desert there, but there's Rocky Top, Smokey, checkerboards and lots of bright orange! Coach Wirth is the Director of Olympic Sports Performance for the Tennessee Vols and his newly rebuilt headquarters is amazing! Rows of brilliant Sorinex racks and supplemental equipment, training recovery devices, Pitsharks, The Bear, a slick Teambuildr Online Software system. They have the whole package and the former Iowa Hawkeye linebacker couldn't be happier! 

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The University of Tennessee: Olympic Sports Training

 

Michigan State Football: Getting Ready!

ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power is now into our Big Ten swing and to kick it off, we headed straight to East Lansing, Michigan where Coach Ken Mannie and his well seasoned strength staff were directing the Spartans deep into the Michigan State 4th Quarter Program. It was one of those invisible mornings where champions are built! We captured a ton of content.... but here's a sampler to keep you quelled for a bit until our main feature hits!

 
 

ASAP at Georgia Tech #ATL

​Talk about a swarm of Yellow Jackets! This Georgia Tech Football squad was on the go 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. 
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. And here's more pics of the training!

Georgia Tech's fabled Bobby Dodd Stadium 5:42 a.m. June 19 2019

The rest of the pics of ASAP at The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets strength training