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Muscles and Management
Over the last near decade, Gerry DeFilippo has trained THOUSANDS of athletes from the youth to pro level across all major team-sports.
Gerry started his gym and brand, Challenger Strength, as an ambitious 22 year old still finishing his college degree.
In the time since, he has built his facility and following into a nationally recognized performance company training thousands of athletes both in-person and online.
Gerry brings guests across all areas of sports and performance training, giving the listener inside access to his rolodex of collegiate, world renowned private and professional performance and sports coaches.
If you are looking to improve your own performance OR knowledge of performance/sports training (and learn how to shape your career), Muscles and Management is for you!
Muscles and Management
Episode #71 Meathead Monday: Quarantine Training Tips Part #2 and Adaptations vs. Variations (Featuring Kevin Poppe)
In this episode Gerry welcomes on Kevin Poppe, strength coach and owner of DST Houston.
Kevin joins Gerry in part #2 of his quarantine training tips to help athletes and coaches navigate this period of unknown while away from their standard training facilities and seeking to continue effective training while at home.
To start, the two discuss the importance of maintaining adherence to goals, time of the off-season for each athlete and still aiming to improve the attributes we would be if we were still at the gym. Kevin points out the effectiveness of plotting programs and goals and writing them down to stay on track.
From there, the conversation turns to training adaptations vs. seeking specific variations and how it can be helpful in training with limited equipment. If we seek to train speed, strength, power etc. vs. trying to do cleans, squats, or other specific variations we can much better accomplish what we need to. Adaptations equal freedom and ability to program with what you have while variations leave you putting together half-baked attempts at mirroring our usual training with equipment.
To finish, Kevin gives some tips for athletes and coaches during this time and the importance of utilizing the internet and social media to find help from coaches you can trust.
All that and more on this episode of Muscles and Management!
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