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#110: Gill1918 presents Marissa Chew "Off Season Jumps Training Part 2" · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  When you're stuck inside in those hallways, this is a great
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  time to do it. So obviously it's a little bit
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  harder because if you put sock on the linoleum, you're just
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  asking for an ice skating rink. But maybe you have some sticky
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  socks from like, what's that called?
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  Air jump or whatever. Those places are trampoline
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  places. Maybe they have those sticky
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  socks, right? Oh my God, I don't know.
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  We all have kids. We know what we're talking about
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  because they stink. But you use those sticky socks
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  as grip socks and you have them do low level remedial hops in
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  their socks. Now, I did just say those things
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  are hard. So I'm not telling you to go out
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  for 50 meters. Or maybe that's when you use
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  their contacts, just five contacts.
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  Because what you're doing then is strengthening the foot.
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  We know our shoes disable our feet at this point.
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  They literally are. They look super cool.
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  Don't get me wrong with stick your head through and through,
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  but all they do is make it so that our feet don't have to work
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  anymore. So if I get a grippy sock and I
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  do remedial low level hops, just on the right leg, just on the
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  left leg, double leg, right, right, left lateral hops so that
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  my outside of my leg is leading the point.
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  Medial hops so the inside of my leg is leading the front.
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  All of these things will allow myself to get stronger, a better
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  proprioception, so better awareness of space as well as
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  injury prevention. So this the fall season, that's
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  all we're doing. They grow these movements so
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  they look more like quote UN quote track and field.
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  But even then, so like this is a good definite 3 weeks of the
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  fall season and then I start to let it evolve.
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  So what does this look like for a pole?
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  Right Pole. It's pretty big in your house
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  area. Maybe not with whoever might be
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  sitting in the room, but I'm doing these things and I have a
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  stubby in my hand. I'm just carrying the stubby
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  because now I'm actually marrying the bottom hands to
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  feet. I've got to have rhythm and I've
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  got to be able to feel in space where I'm going with my top
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  hand, my bottom hand. Am I going farther out from the
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  body? Am I holding too close?
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  Am I starting to cross the body with the pole?
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  Am I letting my pole go way outside to the right or the left
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  respectively? Easy peasy things, but I haven't
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  done anything hard yet. What does it look like for high
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  jump? I mean, at any given moment I
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  can start putting pressure on that outside foot and
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  incorporating that curve to do a 321 hypenia or a left right left
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  or a right left right. It doesn't have to be big level
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  and it doesn't have to have so much space.
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  I can do it with the with the hallway.
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  If you're blessed and you have an indoor facility, by all means
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  keep it small than medical. You know, I, I've mainly focused
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  on the horizontals because it's the easiest to describe, but I
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  think you've gotten the perspective of where we're going
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  with this. The small movements can grow
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  really great, but a really hard time doing the big movements and
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  then going backwards. So, you know, for lack of a
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  better way, and I'm sure you're all familiar.
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  That's the demise of having Instagram, TikTok and YouTube
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  and see the big movements first, try to emulate them.
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  And so when I try to break it down, they're like, but I can't
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  do that slow or I can't do that controlled.
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  I know you can't because you're not strong enough to do the big
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  movement. Do the little movements strong.
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  The big movement is easy. You know, we hear all of the
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  elite athletes when they PB or get that big jump or big jump
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  over a bar. It was effortless.
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  Do you know why? You let the science, science and
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  you let everything create to just happen.
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  You got out of the way. You shouldn't have to force
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  anything. Everything just happens.
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  You let the stars align and distance is the distance.
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  So as I wrap up, I have about 3 minutes left on my clock.
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  Do I have any questions, comments or any anything you'd
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  like me to go? Oh, I see a handcuff the series.
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  Let's go. Did you say you just coached
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  Shot and Dickie do any of the zeros?
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  Can somebody who's closer to the mic tell me what she's saying
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  sorry or come up to the mic, whatever you'd like to do.
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  I don't know what you're comfortable with.
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  It throws in. Here did.
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  You coach throws, did you coach? Shot yes, so I I actively coach
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  shot disk and Jeff and this is all viable for all of that.
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  That's how to add if OK, right, OK, got it all viable because
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  think about it right. So if I'm just doing a glide in
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  the shot put ring, if I have very minimal lower leg
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  stiffness, reactivity and tendon strength, I can't displace
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  myself from the back of the ring to the front of the ring.
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  I can't get from my power position to plant that that I'm
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  I'm a right-handed thrower. I can't displace myself and get
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  into that block position with the left leg to then turn the
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  hip to separate the top, then to push into it and then land
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  safely right. If I'm thinking about javelin,
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  which I know you all don't throw the jab, but there's no way I'm
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  getting crossovers done effectively if I don't have
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  lower length strength and the ability to have the elasticity,
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  erect reactiveness in those tendons.
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  So yes, I have. So when I was at Wabash down in
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  Crawfordsville IN, they said death by Chew.
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  They called it death by chew and it was great.
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  The throwers that they hated to love me so much because they
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  knew they were going to get, they were, they felt themselves
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  getting better, more agile, more able bodied to move, but it was
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  hard. And so like I had no joke at 1.1
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  of the more agile throwers was like, coach, I'm going to raise
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  somebody from your group. I was like, yo, no, not going to
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  let happen because your coach is going to come yell at me.
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  Nope, not going to do it. But like they, you know, they
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  let us know. They ended up racing one day and
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  I was like, I don't want to know, you said too much already,
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  but no, yes, definitely throwers should be doing movements like
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  this. Great question.
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  Yes, Sir. So I I have middle schoolers and
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  I also become coach Cobalting. So the the last three steps are
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  always problematic to to get the tips for that.
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  I'll be honest with you, rehearsal, rehearsal off the
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  runway. So any rehearsals that have to
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  go with a foul or a take off, Mark, I rehearse them off the
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  runway first and then we bring them back to the runway.
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  It's human nature to keep the body safe, right?
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  Our brain says, hey, stupid, don't run into that.
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  Or even for a success failure rate.
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  We don't want to fail, so we don't want to scratch, foul or
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  even run under. You know, you got to keep
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  yourself from running under. Don't run under, don't run
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  under. We constantly tell them that.
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  So how do I reverse that? Take it off the runway?
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  And what I'll do is I, I use chalk.
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  What I found, especially with the grade group that you're
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  Speaking of, if I give them wickets or mini hurdles or even
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  cones it, it's too much for them, the visual barriers too
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  much. So I just draw chalk lines.
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  What's harmless and what's a Great Barrier is your shoes.
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  They're not scared of shoes, but what they don't want to do is
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  step on their shoe because they love their shoes, right?
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  So you use that as the wicked or the cone and have them prescribe
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  their steps so that they're staying equal, consistent and
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  whatnot into those last three steps.
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  Give them a rhythm too. They're all rhythmic.
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  They can all TikTok at this point, right?
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  That they know what that sounds like.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Great questions. Oh, love.
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  I'm one minute over. Don't kill me.
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  That that time is built in because he don't come on until
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  1:15. So if you got a question.
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  Bet 14 minutes. Let's use it.
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  See, you can't give me an inch because I'll take a mile every
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  time, Frank. Oh, in terms.
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  Of I'm sorry, I can't hear you. I'm pulling myself closer like I
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  can hear you better. It's OK in terms of jumping
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  vertically and horizontally. Can you explain the importance
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  of the weight room in the preseason versus the actual
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  season? Importance of the weight room.
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  For. Vertical versus or vertical and.
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  And. Vertical.
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  And so OK, I'm, I'm going to speak to age groups again,
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  familiarity that's developed in those movements are going to be
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  more important than the power gained.
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  The power gained is necessary, don't get me wrong.
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  But if I'm not coordinated nor confident enough to elicit these
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  movements, there's more at stake, right?
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  So I see, and this is not me judging.
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  This is me not knowing all the background.
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  So I am just judging what's in front of me or critiquing, I
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  should say. I see these freshmen trying to
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  clean. Yeah.
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  And I'm like, Oh my God, I'm not sure I want that happening,
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  right? Because they have no idea.
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  And our collegiates. So I'm talking about freshmen
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  collegiates, not even freshmen in high school freshman.
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  I said that out loud and I'm dead honest about that.
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  Because what they're not doing is any type of high pool.
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  It is all mid back. And I'm like, oh, there goes the
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  thoracic. No wonder your back hurts,
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  right? So what I want in the weight
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  room before, when I know they're capable, I'm going to teach the
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  movements and whatnot, but I can't miss what they need in
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  power and movement, right? So I just take a mid ball and
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  they're going to start at a standing position, drop your
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  center of mass, explode up and throw the Met Ball.
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  That's a snatch with no repercussions.
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  Well, OK, you got to get out from under the ball centers and
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  bonk you on the head. One repercussion.
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  But you know what? If you get bonked, that's
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  another indicator. Your butt don't need to be doing
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  this yet. Like you need to get the
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  coordinated, you know, And then the converse of that is center
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  of mass, balls at center of mass raise high slam downs.
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  These are all weight room movements that don't require the
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  weight room. Now when you start to show
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  evolution, you're you're able and you need to grow into these
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  different movements, then yes, you're still on the quote UN
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  quote rate room. So I'm going to use the words
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  that you used, but the movements are different, right?
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  Show coordination, show confidence and show ability
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  before we move on. Now, I'm not trying to tell you
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  that you need to stay with those Med ball slams forever.
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  You need to trial give them give them a a wooden dowel, A broom
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  handle if you need and practice those movements.
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  What does a snatch look like? What does a clean look like?
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  What does a jerk look like? All these things you can build
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  up to it. You go down to Menards, Lowe's
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  ace, whatever's closest to you. Buy APVC pipe, use that first.
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  Throw 3 lbs of sand into the PVC pipe, put caps on it, and now
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  you've got a weighted bar. That's whatever path like $0.50.
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  Be innovative. Do what you got to do to get
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  your athletes there. Don't be stuck that they have to
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  have a barbell or a dumbbell or a kettlebell on their hands.
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  Resistance bands, same thing. So are these, I'm going to call
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  it movements in the weight room necessary for output?
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  Yes, but it doesn't have to be the bar with plates and things
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  like that. So you, you, you got a lot more
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  than you. You went to Costco for that
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  Menard or all the trips. Sorry.
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  Any other questions or anything that I can expand on?
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  Oh. Hey coach, aren't you hosting a
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  level 1 here pretty soon for USA Track and Field?
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  It just happened. So I taught on a level one
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  staff. I think it was last weekend.
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  The day's mix up last weekend. We have one coming up.
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  If you go to usatf.org and in the search bar search for
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  coaches education, the calendar for the remainder of the year is
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  up there. I know as educators we just put
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  in our availability, availability for years on the
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  schools on the calendar. Going into next year, more will
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  pop up. Just whatever is available now.
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  So that calendar is coming up. Level 2 is happening if you
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  already have your level 1. Level 2 is happening in
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  December. It that will go out.
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  We're gonna only offer three event groups.
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  I can tell you that combined events isn't one of them because
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  I'm, I'm not, I know I'm not teaching in December.
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  And then we're looking to host potentially another one towards
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  the summer time. They're a hybrid course.
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  So you'll do some independent studies via Zoom?
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  Not via Zoom, I'm sorry. Via modules that we e-mail out
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  to you and then we come together for about 3 days, I think, to
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  apply everything that you've learned.
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  And then we do check for understanding and a little bit
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  of learn by doing. Each of the event groups do it a
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  little bit differently. So I can't speak to as to what
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  everybody does, but the general consensus is everybody's doing
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  an application. I'll learn by doing and then
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  I'll check for understanding. Is there social media or your
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  contacts somewhere to be found? Your your social media, in your
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  contacts. Can I type in?
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  Do you see what I type in here? I can actually give it to him,
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  but if you want to type it up, Yep, go ahead.
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  Yeah, so. Well, where'd that go?
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  There it is. Sorry.
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  You know what? I don't know my IG handle.
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  That's bad. I'm sorry.
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  That's her e-mail and. I get.
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  Her IG handle to you guys like to be honest with you guys like
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  she is my mentor. So like she is the person that I
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  call for all jumps advice. And if you can have her as an
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  instructor, whether it's level 1 or level 2, she is the person to
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  have. So if you have any time in your
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  schedule to get to that class and she's on the docket to teach
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  it, I say do it. It is worth every penny that
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  you're going to spend. OK.
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  That was Paul. Paul is see, Paul is in level 2
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  with me, Low is in level 2 with me.
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  There's so, I mean, you just got literally like a screenshot of
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  what I do and what I, how I go because this is my passion.
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  I mean, kind of like what Cunningham said in the
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  beginning, like coaches club was nothing besides me not wanting
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  to sit still. I don't know how to sit still.
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  I, I, I, that's one of the worst things that I do in life.
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  And so in doing that, like I came up with a group, I, I
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  thought we were, you know, COVID, we all thought we were
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  just going to be limited for a little bit, but I was like, Yo,
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  let's all get for coffee and we'll just talk and not drive
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  ourselves crazy. And that turned into a 4000
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  person group that, you know, across the nation and, and
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  literally international. And all we did for that whole
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  entire time was talk track and education and, and how do I grow
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  myself professionally and things like that?
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  So this is my passion. I'm just blessed enough to get
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  actually paid to do all that I do.
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  So however I can be a resource for you, I'll be honest, my IG
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  handle I do post some training stuff, definitely more results,
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  but I also I'm trying to be better about do training.
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  Her IG handle is big. under score league under score.
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  She's 13. Yeah, big.
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  Under Score League Under Score 2 13.
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  Yeah, big league. I'm a baseball fan.
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  So a big league Chew. Like the gum.
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  Yeah, that's where I got it from.
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  Yeah, so. But yes, no, there it is.
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  I'll write it up there for you. 13 Yep.
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  Hey y'all give coach 2A round of applause.
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  Hey Coach, thank you and I will chat with you later.
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  Appreciate you guys, have a great day, have fun.
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  Thanks. Hey gang, Mike Cunningham here.
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