Meet Gerry DeFilippo - https://www.challengerstrength.com/meet-gerry-defilippo.html
Bio
- Head trainer and owns and operates Challenger Strength
- Serves as the strength coach for the Jersey Hitmen.
- He orchestrates the programming and training for eight different Hitmen teams, which range all the way up to the Elite and Premier Junior's Level Programs.
- Since founding Challenger Strength in 2016, Gerry has worked with over 100 college, college bound and professional athletes across multiple sports.
- Numerous articles published on EliteFTS, Muscles and Strength and Elite Baseball Performance.
- Gerry is certified by industry legends Joe DeFranco and James Smith.
- As a Certified Physical Preparation Specialist he specializes in athletic performance, pre-movement preparation, strength, power, speed, core training, program design, and mental toughness, all built on the seven pillars of athletic performance.
- Aside from being a Certified Physical Preparation Specialist and working with athletes, he is also an ISSA Certified Personal Trainer, with a background in personal training and general fitness.
- Great follow on Twitter, shares great content!
Notes
- We can’t just focus on the output, we need to decelerate as well
- Athletes need to get better at deceleration, start AND stop
- If we can’t get better at them in a controlled setting, then we will really be behind in a chaotic, game like setting
- Athletes are having to start up, after they have just stopped
- What do you see “prominent” in your sport?
- Look at it from a simple perspective and expand from there
- You will always have a baseline and a progression and regression
- Progress or regress depending on athlete and where the athlete is. Their “neutral”
- Deceleration isn’t needed if you are not fast enough
- “Earning progression”
- Start and stop sprints
- Yell
- Partner reacts
- Drop foam roller
- Avoid people
- Older athlete separated with sprint work and decel work
- Younger athlete needs more consistent sprint and decel work to get a foundation of movements
- Do they have a year or two of training under the belt to get them in the right group/plan
- In season versus out of season just depending on what you are getting a lot or have not gotten enough
- Are we looking at the movements we need in the game and base programming off that
- If you are not getting better in your rotational output then we have to go heavier
- Why am going to continue doing light rotation work when it is not working?
- Overrated in getting in balance (throwing med right and left handed, not needed)
- You are not going to undo movement with the few med ball throwing
- In season maintenance and focus on what we are not getting in our sport
- Hinge is different with the field and in the weightroom
- ***At a certain point you need to evaluate what your goal is and go all in
- If it is what the kid wants and they go after
- Causation vs correlation - was it the athlete and 3 sports or the genetics
- Jump mat and vertical power
- Learn the reasoning behind the test first, and then get the equipment
- Velocity based training
- Technical proficiency in movements
- If what they are doing is not working
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- Website - www.challeger
- Podcast - muscle and management - spotify
