Penn State is HIT and the Eagles are HIT. I have Freshmen there and I have been to Eagles
training facility.
I just figured out why USC is so fast on the field its the carlisle speed box.
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Only $125. Try my speed cinderblock.
I will order one right away. How does one go about becoming legendary?
Laughing Out Loud!
Cinderblock…
Reallly funny 
they looked a lot tougher in the 2nd half against Wisconsin. Maybe Barwis guys do hold up better. I just hope they don’t get in the fashion of spotting teams 19-0 leads. I am not sure if Wisconsin is as good as people thought. They looked somewhat inept without #9. How many dropped balls by recievers. Michigan D-line was stout. The secondary looked suspect against decent recievers. What would USC’s guys do to that secondary!
Agreed, they did look good late. It helps that Wiscy runs such a conservative offense that helped, along with M’s D pressure, keep Michigan in the game.
I think Bielema runs his own version of Lloyd ball. Playing, at times, not to lose rather than to win.
Hey! That’s Gerrard’s copywright! (don’t know if they actually had that back in Poland)
BTW, if you buy, do you get both halves for 125??
Dude! Im still laughing at that 1! That is a classic rebuttal!
else have any new ground breaking speed inventions now that the SPEED CINDER BLOCK is officially under patent.
http://www.seedsuperstore.com/
Artificial artificial turf.
If you don’t like your athletes running on artificial turf, they can use this.
I figure we’ll sell it for a lot more than artificial turf costs, but it will be worth it.
… there’s a idiot born every minute
They’d get a better benefit dropping it on their own heads
What next? I guess it’s now official. The Barwis factor is officially overrated. I have always liked Michigan, but it is kinda funny to watch them have a down year and watch the Michigan fatihful not be so faithful. Talk about fair weather fans! I just get a laugh because one of the local teams I train many athletes from has coaches who think Barwis is God and his system is great. Looks like I have a little fodder to save my kids from constant overtraining.
You guys are something else, its not the strength coach. The school had a major change in offensive and defensive philosophy give them time. Damn!
How do you think they get the two halves in the first place?
I don’t blame Barwis. It’s just after such shameless self promotion, he just ate a huge piece of humble pie. Look at that loss from a realistic perspective. They just lost to a middle tiered MAC team. You can toss the new philosophies out the window. Teams with better athletes almost always win. You can say what you want but with all the blue chip players on Michigans roster, why are they losing to decent(not great) football teams? The only player who impresses me offensively is McGuffie. Their defense alone should have them beating Toledo. They aren’t getting out schemed, they are getting beaten both physically and mentally by inferior competition. All I say to Barwis is be careful when you tell everyone that you will be the strongest, fastest, fittest team in the country. One thing you need to look at is how good is WVU right now? They are struggling with the same system and athletes RR brought in. Do I think Michigan will be better once he gets more guys in to his scheme recruiting wise? YES. Will they be dominant? That remains to be seen. I doubt they will get any more future pro QB’s as this system doesn’t translate to the NFL very well. They may get good running backs, but I doubt too many great WR and QB’s will come here.
Ok, football guru. Strength coaches dont win or lose games. Lets give them 2-3yrs and see where they are, its like trying to run the wishbone offense with drew bledsoe, not gonna work my friend.
- Mike Barwis stated they would be physically superior, not me. Are they? No.
- I agree that they don’t have correct personnel in place. That doesn’t dismiss losing to Toledo. I am not alone on this fact. Pick up a paper in Michigan.
- I never stated that I was a football guru. Yes, I played college football and I train a lot of college football players. I only care about my kids and their well being. I could care less about U of M except that many local coaches try to emulate Barwis. They flat out wreck kids because of it. 2-3 weight room injuries doing the “Barwis thing”. Maybe Barwis should spend a weekend in TO with Charlie learning how to actually develop athletes. This post is just to clear up why it is important for my athletes for Barwis style training to be shown for what it is. That way I can help protect kids 14-18 yrs old from being ruined before they even get started.
- I will say it one last time. Barwis is good at getting his players to believe in him. Thats great! Now just apply SCIENCE driven training instead of the hit them hard with everything training and you have a perfect scenario.
I have some free time on Mondays so I thought I’d share my take on the matter.
The potential does in fact exist for the physical preparation program to strongly, much more so than it already does, influence team success; however, this will never be realized until the collegiate sport training institution restructures itself in order that all components of the preparation process become an integrated whole and a coaching qualification process is institutionalized.
I do firmly believe, however, that the current infrastructure absolutely allows for the physical preparation program to strongly influence losses.
Assume for a moment, for the sake of conversation, that all of us at the D-1 collegiate level are working with highly gifted athletes across the board (which of course is not the case but generally more so than the smaller college levels).
Knowing what we do about the ‘adaptability’ of the more gifted athlete’s organism (in the context of predisposition for success in anaerobic-alactic disciplines) we know that a vast array of training methodics yield positive results.
Hence all the debate about this exercise and that exercise and this system and that system.
what we also know, however, is that the more ‘anaerobic-alactic-gifted’ athlete, due to their heightened percentage of white fiber and corresponding higher capacity for mitochondrial biogenesis within the white fibers, heightened explosive and speed strength potential, heightened capacity to recruit high threshold MU’s, etc , is that much more easy to sustain the negative results of misdirected training that yields excessive CNS overload, inadequate regenerative loads, insufficient recovery, and so on.
So while nearly ‘anything works’ regarding the physical development of the young college athlete- if anything- it is that much more of a responsibility of the coach who works with the more ‘gifted’ talent pools to have a higher qualification level because, as I previously described, the greater the potential for high performance the greater the possibility of ‘breakdown’.
This is as accurate a statement regarding athlete training as it with respect to race car driving.
In the former Soviet bloc nations the athletes who received the most highly qualified coaching and individualized training were those who demonstrated the highest motor potential for that discipline.
Our quasi equivalent/hierarchy of the collegiate ranks (NAIA, D3, D2, 1AA, D-1) does not enforce a similar requirement or even possess a comparable sports administrative/hiring entity only because we have such an enormous talent pool in the US that masks the inadequacies that exist at the many levels within the sporting institution.
As always, in the end, agree with me or not, it is the athletes who suffer.