Strength Coaching News: Why Every High School Needs a Qualified Strength Coach

Coach Phil Stevens, Dr. Mike T. Nelson, and Dr. Lonnie Lowery discuss a high school strength program that celebrates a dangerously sloppy clean and use it as a springboard to examine coaching quality, injury prevention, long-term development, strength versus speed and power, transfer to the field, and affordable ways schools can bring qualified strength and conditioning expertise to every sport.

00:00 Welcome and Hosts
01:45 Sloppy Cleans and High School Strength Programs
05:10 Numbers, Injury Rates, and Coaching Quality
08:00 The Case for a School-Wide Strength Coach
11:20 Team Building and Safe Training Alternatives
14:00 Standards, Norms, and Four-Year Athlete Development
17:25 Freshmen, Long-Term Planning, and Biological Reality
20:15 Strength Coach Responsibilities and Sport Transfer
23:10 Strength, Speed, Power, and Rate of Force Development
26:15 Youth Athletes, Resilience, and Athletic Development
28:20 Funding and Contracting Qualified Coaching
30:05 Wrap and Disclaimer

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Phil, Jerrell, Mike T, and Lonnie

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Thank you!

Phil, Jerrell, Mike T, and Lonnie