Do we finally have the right strength and conditioning staff?

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VolTexas said:
Trying to figure out the weight room changes. The company they went with seems to go deep with how they use the equipment/train.

In one video there is a segment of prepping with Vitamin C and Gelatin(tendons) one hour before working out to help strengthen tendons. Apparently tendons do not have not much vascular structure, but when you load them, some of the liquid in them gets squeezed out. And when you unload them, the liquid returns. If your body is loaded with C and gelatin, some Gelatin makes it back into the tendon and the tendon gets stronger.

This is really important for avoiding tendon tears and overuse injuries. For me tendons are the limiting element in training and when ripped, they take a long time to heal.
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Minimizing Injury and Maximizing Return to Play: Lessons from Engineered Ligaments
 
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Remy said:
Rock and Fitzgerald may face a few of the same challenges. Trying to "motivate" a young college athlete to take his conditioning beyond where he thinks it is or should be is WAAAAAAAY different from that of a highly paid professional athlete who realizes it's perform or gone and money with it. I suspect most of the NFL guys are men and ready to do what it takes to play and stay on the field, not a lot of motivation needed. Some of these college kids probably have hard time rolling out of bed on time, much less showing up and pushing through physically taxing themselves to the levels expected. That's two different skill sets S&C people will need. Not sure Rock had that part, here's to hoping Fitzgerald does.
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This is not Fitz’s first rodeo with college kids. They will shape up or ship out.
 
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VolTexas said:
Trying to figure out the weight room changes. The company they went with seems to go deep with how they use the equipment/train.

In one video there is a segment of prepping with Vitamin C and Gelatin(tendons) one hour before working out to help strengthen tendons. Apparently tendons do not have not much vascular structure, but when you load them, some of the liquid in them gets squeezed out. And when you unload them, the liquid returns. If your body is loaded with C and gelatin, some Gelatin makes it back into the tendon and the tendon gets stronger.

This is really important for avoiding tendon tears and overuse injuries. For me tendons are the limiting element in training and when ripped, they take a long time to heal.
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I heard they are eating raw baby seal. Helps strengthen ACLs.
 
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Unreal

This program was weak. Rock had them bench 275 last year...BK did 19 tines to lead team. Trey did it 18...there were OL that never cracked double digits.
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Freak said:
Rock Gullickson. There was TONS of hype around his hire.

In recent years our strength and conditioning seemed poor regardless of who was leading it.
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The strength staff is tied to the coaches in many ways. Gullickson is a very good strength coach, but he clearly was working to the wishes of the coaching staff. If Butch wanted lighter, more nimble lineman to be more active and pulling in the run game, gullickson had to train them as such. Which meant less mass, and leaner bodies. Pruitt could have told gullickson that he wanted more mass and more power, but he likes this guy for reasons we may not know. I was a strength and conditioning guy back in the day, and we always talked with the coaches to determine what type of athletes they wanted. It was our job to give them the athletes they wanted. We zone blocked, but we did it with physical maulers, and were extremely successful with it. We trained our guys for power and size. We were consistently bigger and stronger up from and won a ton of games that way.
 
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maxxx said:
The strength staff is tied to the coaches in many ways. Gullickson is a very good strength coach, but he clearly was working to the wishes of the coaching staff. If Butch wanted lighter, more nimble lineman to be more active and pulling in the run game, gullickson had to train them as such. Which meant less mass, and leaner bodies. Pruitt could have told gullickson that he wanted more mass and more power, but he likes this guy for reasons we may not know. I was a strength and conditioning guy back in the day, and we always talked with the coaches to determine what type of athletes they wanted. It was our job to give them the athletes they wanted. We zone blocked, but we did it with physical maulers, and were extremely successful with it. We trained our guys for power and size. We were consistently bigger and stronger up from and won a ton of games that way.
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Craig Fitzgerald has as impressive if not more so resume as rock has, he isn't just some guy that CJP likes for no reason.
 
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maxxx said:
The strength staff is tied to the coaches in many ways. Gullickson is a very good strength coach, but he clearly was working to the wishes of the coaching staff. If Butch wanted lighter, more nimble lineman to be more active and pulling in the run game, gullickson had to train them as such. Which meant less mass, and leaner bodies. Pruitt could have told gullickson that he wanted more mass and more power, but he likes this guy for reasons we may not know. I was a strength and conditioning guy back in the day, and we always talked with the coaches to determine what type of athletes they wanted. It was our job to give them the athletes they wanted. We zone blocked, but we did it with physical maulers, and were extremely successful with it. We trained our guys for power and size. We were consistently bigger and stronger up from and won a ton of games that way.
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I venture to guess that Pruitt went to his strength coach and put on the tape of the bama team and said I want these type of athletes. GBO!!!!!
 
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