An early look at the Off Season workouts. So far I'm liking what I hear from the players and hopefully translates to some W's.
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hehe
every offseason it’s better, stronger, faster, newer. I’ll restrain my excitement till Sept… :)
Yup,
If there is one thing I have learned from reading BN’s coverage of the off-season, it is to temper one’s expectations and excitement. Every off season we hear how (to borrow a Daft Punk lyric) the team has become ‘harder, better, faster, stronger,’ yet somehow we time after time seem woefully out of shape and lacking in the strength department. As paul said, I’ll believe it when I see it in September.
That said, it is hard not to be optimistic about having Coach Alosi out there instilling some Steeler attitude in our boys.
B.F.
I want to believe in Alosi
S&C has been so bad for so long under the same leadership. This has to make a difference. It just has to. Maybe I’m just trying to convince myself.
think you mean...
NY jets attitude. spanos came from the steelers, alosi was most closely affiliated with the jets.
in any case, i’m hoping our expectations of a legit full-time football S&C coach will pay big dividends next season. i would probably be satisfied just keeping players healthy and on the field as an improvement.
Just hearing
“We havn’t done stuff like this before” leads me to believe we are on the right path haha
+1
If your instinct is wrong every time, just do the opposite!
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
A lot of the exercises
I saw are designed to help prevent muscle related injuries. Kettle bell workouts in particular help prevent muscle tears by strengthening the core, requiring the athlete to use multiple muscle groups simultaneously. Injuries were a major disruptive factor last year, so I am liking what I saw so far. I also got the impression that there are some very different approaches and training techniques being used.
Exciting!
Building stronger bodies and knocking them around with weights right now thats a good thing. $C workouts are/were about the same not sure if they still have Carlisle as a strength coach.
Then thing I saw was the team not being stuck in the weight room just lifting.
I'm Stoked!!
So far I like what I’m seeing and hearing. Somehow what’s going on with the football team feels different than in recent past. There seems to be a sense of purpose and a no non-sense atmosphere permeating the program. So far so good. Can’t wait for the season to start.
I like what I see
One thing that I thought was interesting was one of the players said that they have never pushed around the weighted sleds on the field before. What?! Every top tier coach uses the sleds as they are invaluable for improving speed and anaerobic power. Further proof that mike linn had to go, never implementing a tool like e sleds for football players is so stupid, especially when a program like ours has the resources to get sleds.
Body mechanics is the key...
I’m hoping that Alosi is spotting flaws in the mechanics of how the guys perform the exercises. In that quick clip, I saw some poor technique with how the guys were working with the sleds, kettlebells and battling ropes. These flaws exist because the coaches don’t know how to spot them or that there’s just too many of the guys at one time to supervise (most of the time its the later of these two.) Just my opinion… this is coming from a orthopedic/sports med physical therapist’s point of view.
Yeah, saw the same thing too
But I assumed it was the weeding out effect. Those players who want to play will self correct, while others avoid full exertion and slack on technique.
Every team I’ve been on is player 20 to coach 1. So the player who learns on their own, without a coach acting like a personal trainer, is the one who excels.
by robotchampion on Feb 10, 2012 9:31 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
I noticed that too
However I have yet to see a majority of college football players that can squat with proper form, bench correctly or lift with appropriate tempo. I think it’s just a problem that occurs with 1 coach per 20 athletes,one on one those mistakes are easier to spot.
If I may ask what did you notice with the sleds? I saw some spotty form with the KBs but the sleds looked ok, what did you notice? Just curious
This video confirms that Barr is an OLB.
Working out with Kendricks, Bowens, Ruhl, Zumalt and I think I saw Hoffmeister with that group as well.
I love this stuff, our S&C coach at La Verne went to some coaching clinics where Alosi was in attendance as well, so I’ve seen and done a lot of this stuff before. The workout is a different kind of beast than your traditional football S&C.
As far as the form, players do self-correct after a point.
The only people I saw with poor form on the ropes were (funnily enough) Price and a couple other DB’s rocking side to side instead of staying planted and working their core.
Kettle-bells are really difficult to get a hang of right away, the lineman always over-estimate the weight they should use, which is what looks bad in regards to form.
Alosi knows what he’s doing. I’m confident that the team will at least look way more physically impressive next year. They will have NFL-ready bodies when they graduate.
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