wow man, that's awesome that you got to work with all those ppl and do all that stuff. Glad i asked you, i didn't know how u got to where you were, thought you just went to college and then got an internship and started working somewhere or something like that
your entire story you were getting sick results with the athletes
was there ever a time the athletes just didn't get better, like from the get-go you all the people you trainined got awesome results? Did anybody get hurt training under you and it became a big deal or something like that?
Well, i had "witnessed" and "assisted" with ALOT of training before I had trained athletes entirely under my programs. I had the ability to witness what was working and what wasn't, at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. So, before implementing my own programs, all that prior experience really helped me shape my own training ideas.
As far as results go, I can say with confidence that EVERYBODY I trained, who was serious, got good results. I trained lots of people who half-assed shit also, so, of course I had people who didn't improve, but that was mostly on them. Either their parents were paying and they didn't want to be there, or they signed up and just were lazy, those people can't make progress.
Man, you just can't NOT make results if you're improving your strength (in lifts & reactive movements), and managing fatigue properly. Of course some people made really freaky gains, others made just "good gains", but everyone was gaining nonetheless. My duties at MSC for the most part, were putting on muscle & making people faster. I still had the people who were vert focused, fat loss focused, pure speed focused, pure mass focused, etc, but mostly mass & speed for baseball.
I've had a few people get hurt, but most often than not, they did something wrong. One kid broke his ankle doing stepups, he jumped off the box and landed on something all crooked. One kid hurt his hamstring real bad during performance testing, landing extremely deep in a broad jump. One of my minor leaguers had a major back spasm, doing agility drills, the day after squatting. Another minor leaguer tweaked his hamstring shagging in the outfield (catching fly balls). Russo hurt his pec doing iso pushups after iso bench, that lasted a long time. The person I hurt the most, was myself, since I did alot of experimentation with training ideas.
That's about it when it comes to that...
My most proud moment as a s&c coach came during summer s&c camp, in a conditioning session. This new kid shows up, we're doing sled circuits. He's like "LEMME DO IT!". I'm like, "nah man you're not ready". He keeps bugging me, so I let him. He does the circuit, which everyone is completely adapted too, and he pukes his guts out. Then, he's like, "ok im good now let me finish", so I'm laughing and go ok. He does another circuit, pukes his brains out again. Session is now over, and I see him standing on a bench, with a garbage can nearby. Then I see a bunch of kids running around laughing. So I go see what's going on, and he's taking a dump in the garbage can. He kept coming for one week, but disappeared, probably due to the teasing. I guess he couldn't hold it in lololololol.
peace mang.
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