Andrew Leddy HSSCC

This past week we had 2 teams lift the day before a game and one team did a primer lift on game day. They all won. They didn’t win because of the lifts. But they also didn’t lose because of the lifts. What they did do was still develop physical qualities, despite being in-season. Long term development cannot take seasons off just because you’re in-season (which is almost 12 months a year now for kids.)

Plyometric session with our 18U Club Volleyball players.

The irony when parents, kids and coaches tell me they don’t have time for the weights, yet have endless time do to skill work, all in preparation to face an opponent who is 50lbs heavier and much more physical. Yes skills are needed. But not at the expense of physical development.

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Division 1 football players training in a compensatory acceleration style (CAT) upper body strength regimen were compared to a traditional regimen in their off-season. The CAT group was instructed to perform the positive rep as explosively as possible. The traditional group performed repetitions at a traditional tempo. At the end of both off-season training programs, both power and strength were assessed. Power was tested with a seated medicine ball throw and a force platform plyometric push-up test. Strength was assessed by a one rep max in the bench press. Both groups increased strength and power. The group that trained in a Compensatory Acceleration Training (CAT) style improved their bench press by nearly double the amount of the traditional group. Average power, as expected, increased significantly more in the group that trained explosively. Jones, K. K., Hunter, G. G., Fleisig, G. G., Escamilla, R. R., & Lemak, L. L. (1999). The effects of compensatory acceleration on upper-body strength and power in collegiate football players. Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research (Allen Press Publishing Services Inc.), 13(2), 99-105. Practical Application Fred Hatfield was ahead of his time advocating Compensatory Acceleration Training. It is simply superior! Training adaptations are not just a result of weight on the bar. Adaptations from training are a byproduct of tension and duration. You respond to how much force produced, how fast the force was produced, how long you produced it, and how many times you produced it. Force=mass x acceleration. More tension is result of greater bar speed. Maximal strength training and power adaptations can result from lifting weights with maximal force; one more reason to compensatorily accelerate weights.

Heroes get remembered but Legends never die! May you rest in eternal peace with God forever Coach Lou! RIP Lou Holtz ☘️🙏🏼

OK, if we take the PR spin that teams had Carnell Tate's 40 time faster than the ELECTRONIC TIMING the Combine did on face value...how is that possible? Literally the only way would be for his start technique to somehow trigger the timing before scouts are starting their clocks. Interestingly, I can see it. I slowed down his start here, watch how his plant hand is basically the first thing to move, coming up before his other hand starts to swing. I could buy there's half a tenth of a second in that technque vs a guy who triggers with that back-hand starting to swing or the coil in his legs and his plant hand staying on the ground a split second longer.