Bret Huth

Chasing the Dream ! The Right Way and Again! @HuthStrength #RealTraining

@CoachJoeyG @Jordan_Soukup

Organizations will spend 100s of thousand of dollars on fancy technologies but won’t load the athlete. What are you monitoring if they don’t train? “Can’t have 100 dollar shoes with a dollar squat” Louie Simmons

Earned the break☑️ #EatEmUp

The dangerous idea in human performance is not always doing too much. Sometimes it is doing too little meaningful chronic work, then acting surprised when the body breaks down the moment real demands show up. That is the heart of Gabbett’s training injury prevention paradox. The paper argues that athletes accustomed to higher training loads can have fewer injuries than athletes training at lower workloads, and that non contact soft tissue injuries are often tied not to training itself, but to an inappropriate training program with excessive and rapid spikes layered on top of inadequate preparation. As Gabbett put it, “reductions in workloads may not always be the best approach to protect against injury.” Three points jump out immediately: • Too little meaningful chronic work can leave athletes underprepared for the actual demands of practice and competition. • Rapid increases in load are a major problem for non contact soft tissue injury risk. • Appropriately graded high training loads can improve fitness, and that fitness may help protect against injury while improving resilience and availability. To all my fatigue mitigation specialists, we need to be careful about the resiliency we do not build through the manicure process of being “ready” or feeling good. Everybody will always feel ready to compete on the couch or doing less work. The real question is whether they are truly prepared for the demands of the activity. That is the warning in this paper. The answer is not reckless loading. It is not crushing people. It is building enough meaningful chronic exposure that hard demands are no longer novel when they matter most. Source: Gabbett TJ. The training injury prevention paradox: should athletes be training smarter and harder? Br J Sports Med. 2016;50(5):273 to 280.

ACC II: W8D2 (LOW) The Rx Poliquin Chin 3/3/2/2/2/5/7 75/80/85/90/95/85/80 Bench (PEAK) 7x1 70/75/80/85/90/95/100-85 Top set determined by performance @ 95 (coach’s eye/athlete feel/velo). If more was in the tank they took that final step, if not then they peeled back to 85. Press 3/3/3/7/7 80/85/90/80/80 Prime Rot-8 Seated Row 3x12-8 70-75 #REALtraining @ #TXST

Intense Strength Training is arguably the most effective way to increase joint flexibility in healthy adults. This systematic review & meta-analysis included ~1,500 men & women of varying experience and age, across 36 studies. General results were similar to many of the original studies; a full range of motion resistance exercise is highly effective for most people. Sex had a mild impact, but didn't change the overall conclusion. Intensity on the other hand, played the biggest role. The more intense the lifting, the more benefit on flexibility. Age and experience level had no impact. Why does this work? The 2 prevailing thoughts on how flexibility increases are: 1. Mechanical: Changes in tissue, tendons, muscles, etc. 2. Sensory: Higher tolerance to tissue being stretched. Current evidence suggests that both acute (first few minutes) and short-term (first 8 weeks or so) are likely driven by Sensory. After that, Mechanical might be more plausible. Thus, intensity training probably works well bc it drives both potential mechanisms. Lifting heavy weights is not for everyone, but it is important to recognize that it is as viable a method for improving flexibility as anything we've seen thus far. I'll always remember a @thereadystate video from many years ago about how silly it was to think a static hamstring stretch would do anything to flexibility if said hamstring was capable of deadlifting 500 lbs. The specific point doesn't matter, but he was highlighting a fairly common-sense point that ultimately appears supported by the bulk of the research. Paper is open access (free!) below. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39787531/

I first heard this 30 years ago at age 17, when my trainer Jay Schroeder DRILLED it into my soul. I still remember the day we met. He told me, “I don’t want you to squat 450 pounds in 3 seconds… I want you to squat 350 pounds in ½ second. THAT’S power.” To train with him, he forced me to write a daily training log that timed the concentric portion of EVERY rep, EVERY set, EVERY exercise with a stopwatch. I did this for 6 straight months before he allowed me to train at his gym. It took over an hour daily to write the log, but what I learned about my body and performance was invaluable. Training with this intent changes everything: to move max weights at high speed, EVERYTHING matters. Technique and position must be flawless, no power leaks. You learn to eccentrically LOAD, not just drop with gravity and momentum. My body awareness skyrocketed. Speed is king. Details and intention matter. I stopped caring about increasing my max and started caring about moving my max FASTER. It’s the primary reason I transformed myself from a walk-on who ran 4.8 to a first-round pick who ran 4.3.

ACC II: W8D1 (High) The Rx Power Clean 6x1 70/75/80/85/85/85 Clean Pull 3x2 90/95/100 Squat (PEAK) 7x1 70/75/80/85/90/95/100-85 Top set determined by performance @ 95 (coach’s eye/athlete feel/velo). If more was in the tank they took that final step, if not then they peeled back to 85. #REALtraining @ #TXST

"There are two kinds of pain in life: 1. The Pain of Commitment 2. The Pain of Regret Which kind of pain do you want to undergo?" - Curt Cignetti

ACC II: W7D4 (LOW) Seal Row 5/5/5/10 70/75/80/70 Push Press 3/3/2/1/1/1/1 70/75/80/85/85/85/85 Eccentric Contrast Bench w/ Weight Releasers 3x1+5 50/55/60 40% on the hooks 90/95/100 ECC Yield 5-6s ECC Eccentric Cluster Bench w/ Weight Releasers 2x1+1+1 70/75 40% on the hooks 110/115 ECC Yield 5-6s ECC 30s intra-set rest Rotating Poliquin Chin 5/5/5/10 70/75/80/70 Body Building LTE 10/10/AMRAP Rope Hammer Curl 10/10/AMRAP Pulley Lateral Raise 3x10 Chaos Waiter’s Carey 3x20/20 yd #REALtraining @ #TXST

Training stimulus plus performance tracking. In a preparation phase there’s going to be an eps-inflow w/ performance in our jump assessments and timed sprints. Adaptation and fatigue are both a normal and expected response to training. I don’t necessarily agree w/ the knee jerk reaction of monitoring and then changing the plan because if that’s the case you’ll adjust more than you actually train and then there goes your preparation phase. In a competition phase this makes sense because you have to peak on game-day. Prep phases this isn’t the case.

@HuthStrength Really like the progression from extensive to intensive pogos before the jump work. Smart way to prime the SSC. Do you use broad jump distance as a monitoring tool between sessions, or mainly as a training stimulus here?

Day 2 Sprints & Jumps: Accel/Horizontal Emphasis The Rx Extensive Pogo Intensive Pogo A-March+A-Skip Combo A-Run Combo Broad Jump Triple Broads Standing Triple Jump Soft Starts: Walk In/Skip In Hard Starts: Kneeling Laser 1+10 Laser 5-0-5 Broad Jump Testing Resisted 20s (30% BW) #REALtraining @ #TXST

@kdamp @TXSTATEFOOTBALL

I mean… I need to get @HuthStrength to visit the KDamp home gym a couple times. Incredible results in the @TXSTATEFOOTBALL gym this off-season!🐾😀💪

Day 2 of 3 of our Pro Day 225 prep The Rx DE Bench w/ Bands 8x3 @ 40-50% straight weight + 30% band tension Avg Velo Goal set @ .8-.9 m/s If speeds are above velocity ceiling continue to climb in load range. If in range, hold the line, if below the range reduce load. Complex w/ SSL Plio Bench Throws Test set for peak velocity with no additional load. 8x3 @ 10% velocity decrement of test set. If above 10% v-Dec, add additional load, if in the range then hold the line, if below the range reduce load. The 3 Tiers Behind Training for the 225 Bench Test Tier 1 – Absolute Strength 🏋️(Day 1) Your ceiling. The stronger your max bench, the easier every rep at 225 becomes. Think Charlie Francis’ concept of “speed reserve” Tier 2 – Explosive Strength ⚡(Day 2) In sport science terms, this is your rate of force development (RFD) or in laments terms, how fast you can recruit motor units and apply force to the bar. When RFD is high, each rep is faster, more efficient, and “costs less”, allowing athletes to sustain performance deeper into the test. Tier 3 – Special Capacity 🔁 (Day 3) The ability to repeatedly express submaximal force under fatigue. From a sport science standpoint, this reflects strength endurance, local muscular oxidative capacity, and resistance to peripheral fatigue. Athletes who score well here can maintain bar speed and force output across repeated contractions, delaying the drop-off in performance as metabolites accumulate. Strength sets the limit. Power applies it. Capacity proves it. #REALtraining @ #TXST

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ACC II: W6D3 (High) The Rx ISO LL+Manual ECC Hamstring 2x15s+x10/10 Copenhagen Adduction x10/10 Clean 2/2/1/1/1/1/1 70/75/80/80/80/80/80 Clean Deadlift 2x3 90/100 RDL 3/3/3/7/7 70/75/80/70/70 Hatfield ECC Contrast w/ Weight Releasers (40%) 3x1+4 (5-6s ECC Yield) 45/50/55 Hatfield ECC Clusters w/ Weight Releasers (40%) 2x1+1 (5-6s ECC Yield) 65/70 30s Intra-set rest Aux Reverse Hyper 2x12 Hand Supported SSB Calf Raise 2x12 Skater Squat 2x10/10 #REALtraining @ #TXST

@Nick__DiMarco @ElonPerformance Great work @Nick__DiMarco

For anyone that enjoyed the recent RSA post with @ElonPerformance open.substack.com/pub/nickdimarc…

" Champions are built on a thousand invisible mornings." #QuietTime

@JoeyheronCSCS @RjCarrillo11

@RjCarrillo11 @HuthStrength 💪🏻

This dude ⁦@RjCarrillo11⁩ has decided to become a strength coach. Absolutely fires me up! He’s a grad student at Texas State. Needs to get in touch with one of the best in the nation ⁦@HuthStrength⁩ ASAP