Interview With Dr Jacobs

Q: Tell the readers a exiguous bit about your background.

A: Like a lot of other folks I started off in this field as an athlete. I was what some would call a slow gainer. I never assuredly got to big but I gained some size and power. I went off to college and started to accumulate some injuries. I tried to walk on and did not make it so I started to train some more and realized I loved it and stuck with that and walked on to the track and field team. I threw shot and discuss for a while and then discovered and fell in love with powerlifting. I graduated with an undergraduate degree in bodily education. I ended up being conned into working at a local gym that assuredly did not exist. I lived in the closet of the gym for three years, after the first year I owned the gym and turned it into a thriving powerlifting and bobybuilding gym. After that I went back to school and complete my Master's degree and got a job as a impel coach at a small university and took on the responsibilities of the whole athletic department. After that I decided to take a grad assistant spot at the University of Tennessee for one year and after that I became an assistant impel coach at the University of Miami were we one a few national championships and had an extremely thriving team. I also worked in the underground sector and spent twelve years working with the Miami scheme to cure paralysis. Now I am a professor at Florida Atlantic University.

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Q: Tell me a exiguous bit about your time with Dave Pasanella?

A: Dave played two years at N. Arizona and then transferred to Georgia Tech and played two years at fullback and then became there impel and conditioning coach. I was an face counselor for him and his program. We also had a business together called classic Performance, which was one of the first Sports carrying out facilities in the country. Unfortunately Dave passed away and it never took off. We set up a camera so we could analyze the athlete's squats on a big projection screen while they performed them and were able to fix things a lot good that way. This was by far the best component to our success in the weight room.

Q: If you could invent a weight room for high school athletes, what would it consist of?

A: With high school athletes whole one is to not get complex with the fancy glitter. The best investments are sound bars and weights. Solid benches and a bunch of power racks. Power racks are the most efficient. In the 1980's at Ucla I saw a modular theory where they just had a rack and an adjustable bench with a power bar and a pulling bar with bumper plates and free weights. That's how I would set it for high school athletes a place to do squats, bench, chins, dips, and pulls. Start with the basics and don't get caught up with the machines.

Q: What is your doctrine on training football players in the high school setting, start with the weight room and the go into on the field speed and agility training?

A: Now we know that there is this joker called the force velocity curve and with the opinion that when pushing the most weight we are usually challenging the slowest and if it is lighter we move our fastest, but we will never be at our fastest speeds, so we'll have a lower force production. In the opinion of specificity we'll infer that if we want to move fast we can only do that when we are challenging light weight. The truth is that most developing athletes using slow crude impel training bet. 3-8 reps challenging relatively at a slow pace will increase their force yield at all velocities. For developing athlete's you need to focus on three factors technique, technique, and technique. Stay with in your technique and push like hell. Patience, because if there was a good technique than what you did on your first rep, than you should of used it on your first rep. Second thing which I learned from Doug Furnas from when I was at the University of Tennessee is to not set unrealistic goals. If your program tells you to get five reps you get five reps. You never miss a rep. In powerlifting the goal is to go nine for nine, if you look at the very best they tend to be very consistent. So I would say the first step is to use slow and controlled movements and to keep your goals in a progressive nature but in a realistic frame so you get your reps. And third if you are going to do power work in the gym make them basic power movements. I don't think Olympic lifting is a realistic action for most coaches to share. Olympic lifters do multiple sessions per week and there is a lot of technique involved. With high school athlete's I prefer to use a power pull or a high pull as opposed to dive bombing under a bar. The idea is that we do strength, hypertrophy and some power work in the gym. We do not do speed work in the gym, we do that outside, we don't as much overloading. We will not go any higher then 10% of bodyweight. You can do this with a weight vest or pull a sled. We want to turn our gains into speed and do more movement oriented tasks. I think that the best training for lateral movement is a game of pick up basketball. This will make them work harder and be more contentious when it comes to speed and agility training.

Q: How would you go about conditioning high school athletes? Start right off the bat or wait until the season is approaching?

A: It depends on who your athletes are. I would say no more than two weeks and those two weeks will be an active salvage workouts. The time for aerobic rehearsal is when you retire; if I saw a ball player running or walking they would be punished. I believe in the old school periodisation. In Jan. You are starting a strength/hypertrophy phase up until spring ball. Once spring ball comes around you will turn it into an in season maintenance phase. Once spring ball was over we would go into a impel phase until summer started. Over the summer we focused on power/speed/strength, but we did not do any running until the fourth of July. It only takes six weeks to learn the neural aspect of running for the big fellas. If it was a speed guy it would be a exiguous separate maybe go let him run track or maybe 10 weeks. This will prepare them to go all out at camp.

Q: Is there such thing as sport specific lifts in the weight room or is just hype?

A: The only sport specific movement for football is playing football. In training we want to manipulate the factors we think are important. Those factors are going to be associated to joint movement and lines of resistance. It should be sport similar movements and velocities. It is impossible to train the shoulder at the velocity of throwing the football. You don't want to just work the movements that are most predominant in the sport because you can 95% of the time you do but the other 5% we get in odd angles people get hurt, so we want a wide variety.

Q: Would you train each position diff.?

A: No, I remember any times to the dismay of Coach Johnson we had Vinny Testeverde arrival out of the squat rack with 500lbs on his back. Every person squats, kickers all the way to defensive lineman. There might be some exiguous changes but in normal most of the movements are the same. No matter what the sport they all have to move level ahead assuredly fast, occasionally they have to stop and convert directions and every one of them will get hit. The more heavy damage and pounding you cause your body straight through in training the more we invent the capacity to create and recover. Any time you get Doms you are developing the capacity to safe yourself. Now with that being said I would convert things slightly with throwing athletes and cut out the overhead pressing, but everything else will commonly be the same.

Q: As far as salvage what would you have your players do?

A: whole one factor of salvage is to get sufficient sleep. The 8 hour's of sleep generalization is inadequate. The midpoint someone should get 9. When I competed and I was training heavy legs I would need to get at least 12 hours of sleep. Making ready before you train is vital; this includes prehab, mobility, and stretching. Getting out and doing other things performing daily activities. Sitting in a whirlpool and having cold water therapy.

Q: What was the biggest hurdle you had to overcome with your players?

A: Themselves, psychologically these guys would defeat themselves before we even started. We had to work on cognitively restructuring the brain and to do that we had to talk about the issues. You can have All Americans still hearing that voice from there Dad that said he was too clumsy or weak. Until we talk about that and bring it out it would limit them. We would start by setting goals in the gym; we would try and get more reps or lift a heavier load. Every person had to write everything down. We found that was quite productive reinforcement. whole one it showed them somebody gave a damn because I wrote each workout out by hand. We did not have excel back then so I wrote all 315 athletes workout sheets. Then we would adjust on the fly and set goals for each phase on what we foreseen, them to accomplish. After we did that in the weight room it was a lot easier for the position coaches to prepare the athletes. So be sure to set them realistic goals.

Interview With Dr Jacobs

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