ATHLETIC STRENGTH AND POWER

ASAP Podcast with Football Sports Performance Coach Tommy Moffitt

Former LSU longtime S&C
Coach Tommy Moffitt

One of the big highlights of the HAMMER STRENGTH Clinic that was conducted at the Spooky Nook Athletics Complex in Hamilton, Ohio was the presentation on the opening night by Coach Tommy Moffitt. Basically, he laid out the infrastructure of his championship performance program that had the LSU Fighting Tigers fighting for and winning the big games and the big prizes. He's been in the strength & conditioning field for over thirty years. At Louisiana State for 23 years and prior to there, he'd been at Tennessee Vols and the Miami Hurricanes.

Tommy Moffitt's Championship Level Slide Presentation 
HAMMER STRENGTH CLINIC 

So, I guess it's a no-brainer that the Hammer Strength Clinic roped in the accomplished Tommy Moffitt. And, the clinic was the perfect time to catch an Athletic Strength And Power Podcast recording with Coach Moffitt. We talked strength training and conditioning an discussed how he used Polar heart rate monitors with the Tigers at LSU when conducting speed and conditioning workouts.

Currently, Moffitt has a strength & conditioning website called The Moffitt Method. It looks like a great resource for coaches & athletes and can even merge with TEAMBUILDR, the online strength & conditioning software.  In addition, he has a podcast that he records every Wednesday! 

 

ASAP Podcast with Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Robert Burger

"sports are not the most important thing in life.... but, sports are one of the greatest classrooms for opportunities for young people to experience success and also to learn to deal with failure and to work hard towards a goal with teamwork" 
Dr. Robt Burger Orthopedic Surgeon

 

In this sports science podcast, Dr. Burger talks about 

• Hip and leg issues, and problems stemming from:
  landing mechanics
  recurrent hamstring tears
  achilles tendonitis
  weak core & flexibility issues related to lowered athletic performance & further injury
• The Shoulder and labrum tears

Dr Burger was a former Notre Dame Fighting Irish football player who worked himself into the starting line-up on a team that had Joe Montana as their starting quarterback. The hard work that Burger embraced, earned him an opportunity for a National Championship with that squad! Years later, Dr. Burger's son Bobby also made the Notre Dame team, he was a tight end/fullback. Another son, Chris starred at Xavier University in Cincinnati as a Captain of the Musketeer golf team and brother John played there for Xavier Golf, as well. Meanwhile, another son, Joe Burger, starred and was a team captain at Ohio State Football, himself playing for a National Championship in 2014. Later, OSU scholar athlete was elected Captain for the 2016 Buckeyes.

  "the important thing is not just the success that you did or didn't do, but it's what you've learned through the process"               Dr. Robert Burger Orthopedic Surgeon

Dr. Burger is the Head Team Physician and Medical Director for Xavier University Athletics, Orthopaedic Consultant for the Cincinnati Reds, and head Orthopaedic Team Physician for the College of Mount St. Joseph Athletics. Additionally, he is Head Team Physician for the Cincinnati Steam and his alma mater, Cincinnati LaSalle High School.
 

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Anthony Schlegel's: The DIFFERENCE The Ultimate Striking Machine

We've featured Coach Anthony Schlegel on our site in the past. His colorful and demonstrative personality is pure linebacker. Upon graduation from Ohio State, Anthony was selected with the 76th overall pick in the 2006 NFL draft to the New York Jets. He played with the Cincinnati Bengals and the UFL’s Florida Tuskers before retiring in 2010. Hall of Fame Coach Jim Tressel then hired Anthony to be an assistant strength and conditioning coach for The Ohio State Buckeyes. Schlegel was then retained by current Ohio State Football Coach, Urban Meyer, and Head Strength Coach, Micky Marotti. During Anthony’s tenure at Ohio State, the Buckeyes were the first college football playoff National Champions, accumulated the longest winning streak in school history and maintained a record of 44–10.
As of late, he completed his MBA from the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University and resigned from his post as the associate director of football sport performance for Ohio State football and formed THE DIFFERENCE USA . Check out his exciting new product that was was developed in the weight room of The Ohio State University Football program to develop upper body strength and explosiveness while enhancing an athlete’s hand placement/striking techniques for all positions of the National Champion Buckeyes. It could definitely make a difference in your program, too!

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ASAP Examines the New Hammer Strength Abdominal Crunch

ASAP Director Ted Lambrinides on the road in Chicago at the '09 Club Industry Fitness Exposition at the McCormick Place, the premier convention center in the Windy City. Here's a quick video of the latest abdominal piece from Hammer Strength

ASAP Examines the New Hammer Strength Abdominal Crunch from Coach C Video on Vimeo.

If you make a trip to Chicago.... be sure to check out Al's Beef. What an Italian Beef Sandwich that they serve!!! You've gotta order the sweet peppers and sauce on top, too! Wow! If you have to have lean beef protein... this is the place to get it. Forget about that whey protein powder smoothie.... this is real, bona fide protein. Another ASAP~Five Star Meal Selection.

Philadelphia Eagles Strength Training

ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power recently visited the Philadelphia Eagles Training Camp.  During one of the rained out practices at Lehigh University we called a time-out and had Assistant Strength Coach Jay Merlino explain the Dumbell One Armed Chest Press. Head Strength Coach Mike Wolf demonstrates in the video below. After a brief workout, we headed down to The Bluesky Cafe for brunch. This is the place to go if you love breakfast fare and you're anywhere near the Lehigh Valley. I chose the Sweet Potato Quesadilla with eggs and black bean salsa. Wow! ASAP Program Director Ted Lambrinides: The Banana Bourbon French Toast. The Eagles coaches had a serious brunch going, too! Anyway, here's the video and be sure to try this exercise!

....Ed Cicale

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ABSOLUTE CRUNCH TIME

Crunch Time

Today's post features an absolutely great abdominal / core training workout for you to get a start on that 8 pack that you've been wanting. This workout comes in pdf form and is just a download away. Sarah Ensminger, a former North Carolina State University volleyball player used her graphic design degree to get "Crunch Time" for ASAP Athletic Strength And Power. She picked up part of this routine as a member of the Wolfpack VB squad...then added her own twist, graphically designed the stick people, and sent it on to www.athleticstrengthandpower.com ASAP.  So here's the download and believe me, that's the easy part! .... Coach C

Download crunch_time.pdf

A Closer look at Abdominal Training

A strong midsection or...CORE... is important for both athletes and non-athletes. The focus of today's post will be on training the abdominal muscles. The elusive "eight pack". Dr Ted Lambrinides has written some research on this very subject and how to get started on a CORE strength training program. Download the pdf file and make return visits to ASAP Athletic Strength And Power this week for more information on this important fitness topic. There is also an upcoming podcast and also some CORE and Abdominal Routines to follow. For now, study the anatomy artwork and get ready for Crunch Time!

• Download a_closer_look_at_abdominal_training.pdf

It's Crunch Time

Several years ago, the fitness industry was overcome with a new aspect in physical training and conditioning called: CORE training. Exercise physiologists scurried back to their physiology and kinesiology textbooks to learn more about this new concept in physical training. What is core training...and where do you find out more about it? There are even books and online sites where you buy the "secrets" of Core training. Had personal trainers, physical educators and strength coaches been in the dark for all those years?

More than likely, Core training has been going on for many a year.... just by a different name. And as for those textbooks? Well, there is really no mention of Core training in any of the collegiate physiology textbooks that I researched.  When I asked Ted Lambrinides PhD, an exercise physiologist, he stated that the Core could include muscles anywhere from the latissimus dorsi....all the way down to the knee, and that if one has been following a total body training program...they've been training their Core area all along.

And, as for the "secrets" of Core Training, if you wanted to pay an introductory $9.95 fee, you could go to a website and enroll.  Please email us or click on "comment" at the end of this post if you do an enlighten us on those secrets.

On the serious side though, the Core Craze has placed a re-emphasis on total body training. Many athletes were using just a few "Core Movements" (different from Core Training) and subsequently leaving many muscle groups undertrained. Core Training has been a long time emphasis in Dan Riley's strength and conditioning program, going way back to the 70's...yet he never referred to it as Core Training. Riley worked as head strength coach with collegiate national champion teams at Penn State and Super Bowl  teams with the Washington Redskins. Never referring to as CORE... but his workout routines are full of CORE training exercises. So, the pendulum swings back with emphasis on these muscle groupings again...just that now, it has a different name. So, for many of you long time coaches, rest assured that you probably have been training your athletes right all along.

Coming soon to ASAP Athletic Strength And Power, will be the Podcast interview regarding CORE training that I conducted with Ted. I'm sure that you'll find of interest and you'll be able to take some of the information and inject it into your, or your athletes' workouts.

Also, later this week, we'll explain a great abdominal/ CORE routine that that we picked up from Sarah Ensminger, a former North Carolina State "Wolfpack" Volleyball Star. You'll like this one... so will your Abs... and we'll reveal the secrets of that routine....for free!!!! There is also a downloadable pdf that will accompany it. Make your return visits this week as we delve into the CORE!

Keep Training! .........Coach Cicale

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