Coach Jay Traylor

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Why Your Weight Room Strength Didn’t Transfer to the Field Explosive Strength Deficit Ever have an athlete who could squat a house but only had a 19” vertical jump? Your strongest weight room kid had no burst on the field. There’s a reason. It’s called the Explosive Strength Deficit (ESD). In Science and Practice of Strength Training, Vladimir Zatsiorsky and William Kraemer define explosive strength as “The ability to exert maximal force in minimal time.” The speed at which you apply strength is called Rate of Force Development (RFD). And that’s the missing piece. An athlete can be very strong, but if they can’t apply that strength quickly, it won’t transfer to sport. The goal of training is to improve RFD and close the ESD gap. The good news, RFD is highly trainable. The most effective methods are: • Short sprints • Jumps and plyometrics • Medicine ball throws • Dynamic effort lifts (later in development) Sprinting is the most explosive thing an athlete can do. No barbell exercise approaches the speed or force production of a maximal sprint. If you want to improve a skill, you must train it frequently enough that the body adapts. This is the SAID Principle. Want to run faster? You have to sprint regularly. Do sprints before lifting for three reasons: Max effort – athletes are fresh and can sprint with full intent. Potentiation – sprinting primes the nervous system for heavy lifts. Injury reduction – careful asking fatigued tissue for maximal outputs Jumps train lower body power output. They improve the ability to put force into the ground and redirect the body explosively. Think of jumps as one-shot efforts, separate from continuous plyometrics. Examples: • Box jumps • Single-leg jumps • Multi-directional jumps Jumps should be done early in the workout while the athlete is still fresh. Medicine ball throws develop explosive power in planes barbells and jumps can’t train. They’re also excellent for linking the upper and lower body in explosive movement. Like jumps, throws should be done early in the session, ideally after sprints. If you want your athletes’ weight room strength to show up on the field, you have to train how fast they can use it. That means training Rate of Force Development. Here's what an example week could look like:

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Most high school players aren’t built like FBS starters. And that’s the truth. This data shows the average size of current FBS starters — not recruits — starters. If you don’t match it today, don’t panic. There are THOUSANDS of college opportunities at the FCS, D2, D3, NAIA, and JUCO levels. Get on a roster. Develop. Produce. Then let the game take you where you belong. Stop chasing logos. Start chasing development.

I am not ashamed of my journey. My life will be a testimony. But if I could offer a word of advice to any freshman, sophomore or junior athlete in high school it would be to just listen bro. All them adults in your life not just talking to talk. They been here longer. They done bumped they head already. They trying to save you from doing the same thing. Do not make the mistake of thinking your talent alone is enough. It’s not. Talent open doors. Character and grades keep you there. And if you already messed up, if your GPA not where it should be, if your name been in rooms for the wrong reasons… don’t quit. Keep digging. You can climb out the hole the same way you dug it. Class of 29, 28 and 27 hear me. Take your grades serious.
Choose who you hang around wisely.
Protect your name. Word spreads fast if you a crash out.
Respect authority. Nobody riding for you like your parents and coaches.
Work hard when nobody clapping. Do not wait until senior year to lock in. That GPA do not lie. I’m still figuring it out myself. I’m struggling but I know God got me. Be intentional.
Lock in early. Pray. Show up ready to work. I’m learning the hard way that my future is being built in the small decisions I make today. Start now.

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