Brandon Herring
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The Weights Guy at Hewitt-Trussville HS. I’m 50% serious on this app. I love sandwiches
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Here’s my son on his 17th birthday today performing a clean for those that like them. For those that don’t, you should chill and enjoy watching anyway
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Had a few people ask about our squat progression at our middle school and into 9th grade. Here goes 👇 Body weight, goblet, landmine, zercher, overhead, zombie, front, back. There are some progressions within those progressions.
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Weight training in-season WILL NOT make your athletes sore, tired, mess up their shot, take velocity off throws, jump lower or run slower. I hope every HS coach that actually believes these things reads this and has an epiphany
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In my experience coaching HS students
Girls - very coachable, highly disciplined, high attn to detail. I spend the most time teaching them to strain
Boys- will strain. I spend the most time teaching them to be coachable, disciplined, and attn to detail
🤷🏽♂️
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This isn't grit. Grit is having the mental toughness to persevere thru adversity. This is an embarrassment himself, his team, his University and the game itself
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This video I just shot of a MS kid won't get retweeted, but IMO is 1000x more impressive than the majority of 500lb+ squats I've been seeing
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When one of our athletes signs to play a sport in college, we try to set them up for success as soon as they walk in the door.
@JusticeFinkley
has been at Texas 3 weeks (early grad) and he’s in a rack with the upperclassmen and killing it.
@TBecStrength
sent me this Monday. 🤘🏽
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Your big time back squatter will crumble on the first rep of these if he/she never done it before.
May want to train ☝🏾 as well as ✌🏾
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My 2 cents on toughness. Toughness is a decision you make. No program makes you tough. Nothing my wife ever went thru prepared her for cancer. She made a decision she was gonna kick cancer's a$% and freaking did it. You wanna be tough? Then be tough. MAKE A CHOICE.
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Something to think about as fall sports are starting camp and in-season lifting.
Attn: football coaches
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I coached football for 20 yrs both college & HS. Every 1st day of practice, "They're dying. We're not 'in shape'." You can run 20 110's for time, 40 40s, whatever. They're in trouble 1st day. You get in shape by playing the sport. Try to mimick the sport in conditioning
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My 7th grade daughter has training with her softball team at 6 a.m. She sets her own alarm to wake up. She makes her own lunch. She knows I will leave her if she doesn't wake up on time (AKA bailing her out). Some people think that's harsh. My daughter will dominate theirs 1 day
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"We don't lift heavy in-season. We don't wanna get em tired and sore." Aight. We established 31 new training maxes last week and was up 31-0 with 8 minutes to go in the 2nd quarter but you do you 👌🏼
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Core subject teachers think I am dumb and chose to be a “weights coach” because I wasn’t smart enough to teach a real subject.
I say I’m more intelligent than them because I wear shorts to school everyday and don’t have to teach any of that and get paid the same as them
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Teaching my 11 year old daughter how to hip hinge. "Daddy, I want to go workout." 👊
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I love it when someone that has never been in a weight room with 50 15-18 year olds tells me what I should and shouldn't do in a weight room with 50 15-18 year olds.
It ain't that easy
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I shot this rubber band & it went really far. Then I stretched it & held it repeatedly & shot it again. It went 1/2 the distance. Tell me again why you want to static stretch pregame?
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The "sport specific" weight room training arguement gets tiresome. HS kids need strength/power. There is no "football workout" "basketball workout" or "baseball/softball workout" etc. S&C should build stronger, more resilient athletes. Coaches make them better at their sport
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At church yesterday. Talking w/ man w/ a 14 yr old son that plays baseball.
"Do you do sport specific training?"
"No."
"Not at all?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because I'm not a baseball coach."
"What about in the weight room?"
"Weights don't care what sport you play. Especially at 14"
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For what it’s worth, I like using a trap bar better than using a barbell. Give it a try
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My 8th grade son front squatting. His technique is 🔥. Low key jealous 👀
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There was a mouse in the Fieldhouse. I feel sorrow for the future wives of these boys
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“Core” work.
Prone reactive decel.
Only the 2nd time we’ve done this. Partners need to be better
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I'm gonna miss this young man more than y'all know. He's been an absolute workhorse since his freshman year. He's leaving next week to go play
@TexasFootball
(early grad). They're getting a special man. Love you Fink!
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"Coach, I can't gain weight."
There's 768 g protein in this pic. It cost $9.90. (Get the red lid. It's whole milk)
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The backups when the Powerade and snacks come out at halftime
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A message for strength coaches and football coaches…..
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Y’all think Georgia does speed training in-season too or nah?
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People are in disbelief that an "offensive line coach" has Arkansas playing so well. You don't have to be a QB guru to become a HC. Pittman is one of the best coaches in the country - period.
OL coaches - The 🍄 Society
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So you can get kicked off a big, open grass field while exercising and only 2 people within 60 yds but you can and are encouraged to go to Walmart and stand in the same aisle as 35 people. Got it
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I guess I'm different. I don't shame our athletes about training or not on their Christmas break. Like it or not, they aren't weightlifters. Many don't love training. Maybe if you give them a break during their break, they will be more willing to buy in when they return 🤷♂️
#kids
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I just dropped my 15 year old son off at school. As he was getting out, I told him "I love you". He didn't say it back but that's ok. Dad's- your boys need to hear those 3 words
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Somebody should say it so I guess I will.
Firing the S&C coach citing injuries when coaches are running 3 hour death match practices every week on top of games is complete and utter BS.
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"How much did you have on the bar?"
"I had on 30."
"30? The bar is 45"
"I had on 30 on this side."
"So, 105. You had 105 on the bar."
"Yeah"
Conversations with 14 year olds
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HS coaches all over the country are crushing dreams right now by handing
#61
to a kid that thinks he’s a running back
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Here’s
@JusticeFinkley
with a 330 lb clean. I shut it down but I think he’s still got plenty in the tank
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Freshmen acceleration work. Coaching the anchor man is 80% of the work. Learning to be patient, push the turf away and strike under the hips
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Easy way to get them to run fast is to let them compete.
Acceleration games after sled tows/prowlers and timed 5/10 flys
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Dad brag here. My just turned 16 year old son hit a 235 lb clean today 💪🏽
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Hi speed day. We work over the shoulder runs in here. We’re trying to stay at hi speed with as little slow down as possible looking over our shoulder. Then eyes back north and accelerate to separate.
Be athletic
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Some math for coaches that like "maintenance" workouts in-season so "they don't get tired and sore"
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Example of why deload weeks aren’t needed in HS.
School was canceled Fri for weather. Out for MLK Day. Canceled tomorrow for weather. School could possibly be canceled Wed for travel issues.
It’s also an example of why attendance is the most important metric in HS training.
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"Besides school workouts, he's going to_____for extra lifting,____for footwork,& _____sport work. We put in an entire gym in our basement. We have 37 camps planned."Is there anything else we can do?"
"What time did go to bed last night?& what he eat for breakfast?"
SILENCE
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(Yawn)...just a 270 lbs sophomore doing a kneeling jump into a SL landing...(Yawn)
@JusticeFinkley
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I can’t wait to program these with my freshman boys class of 54 students it’s gonna be awesome
Your spine is not fragile.unless you treat it that way. Find time and opportunities to explore rotation and expose your spine to movements outside of traditional loading patterns for longevity.
@c_bumstead
@GBRSGroup
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The data shows that the athletes that show up the most improve the most
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Unpopular opinion: spring football practice, summer baseball/basketball practice should be eliminated from HS athletics. Would eliminate a major stressor on multisport athletes and encourage more participation. I'm prepared to get blasted here.
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Sport coaches:
The height of the box is irrelevant. How high does the center of mass travel? That’s all that matters.
Red line is 7th line on the wall.
Reduce risks
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Don't you love it when you post a pic or video and the technique police come out and pick it apart? It's called coaching. If they did everything right I wouldn't have a job.
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Overheard behind me last night:
"Is that one of the coaches?"
"Nah. He's just the weights guy."
I'm going to make that my new title. Brandon Herring - The Weights Guy
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Shout out to all the HS coaches!
Except the ones that play a DB at Mike in 2 man at 7on7 camp. No shout out to you
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Me: “Three sets of 20 on face pulls.”
9th grader:
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I wonder how much this bothers the anti-juice, cancel coaches. These men work their tails off, yell, scream, flex, train at 5 a.m., and have rap concerts in the weight room.
They also WIN and serve our country in places that most Americans would never voluntarily visit. Salute
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S&C coaches don't want sport coaches giving input in training.
Sport coaches don't want S&C coaches giving input to sports training.
The athletes thrive when both sides come together, drop ego's, and collaborate.
Communication is the 🔑
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I can get 125+ 7th and 8th graders to leave this room like this by saying "Clean it up."
It's not that hard
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Like the twist tie on a bag of bread. These just disappear into thin air
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Short thread to debunk the "I don't want them to lift heavy in-season. I need them fresh. Let's lift light and maintain" idea that many sport coaches have been led to believe. It's passed down generationally. Intensity or "heavy", doesn't make you tired. VOLUME does. 1/3
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This guy deleted this tweet but I'm gonna put it back out there. It's not like he had a sudden epiphany. This BS belief system PISSES ME OFF.
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Coaches: when young men are arguementative (disrespectful? maybe), the majority of the time it's due to insecurity. So putting them on blast in front of their boys just feeds that insecurity. It took me a loooong time to realize that. Pull them to the side. Way better results
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Acceleration day.
Broad jumps
Power skips for distance
Kneeling linear/lateral takeoffs
Reactive starts
Hill sprints for volume
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“Cool. Now show me how to to do it with 63 high schoolers at once.”
Me scrolling Twitter
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Some shuffle and crossover work. Working the edges of our feet
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Gonna kick the hornet's nest here.
This should be a 15 yd penalty on the QB. Unfair to the defense whenbyou flag them for hitting the QB on the slide
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Acceleration day. Produce power, compete, have fun
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Strength & Conditioning
Name something people have strong opinions on, but actually know little about.
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I have kids that struggle getting a trap bar out of a vertical bar storage and y’all talking about dynamic effort 😂
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The high school football film trade game is the peak level of pettiness
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Buy meat and take flowers home to the wife. Score
Vegans putting flowers on “meats” in a grocery store to honor dead animals 👀🌹
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I told my man
@SyedTanveerRaz1
if he hit 56 feet on the shot I’d tweet it out. Here it is 56-9 1/2 as a junior. Y’all give him some love
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Offensive linemen need to be able to “bend”. Are you working on it? 6’4 300 and 6’4 315
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A big part of coaching is knowing when to shut your mouth and let it develop.
Over-coaching is real. Sometimes you’re hurting more than helping.
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A high school parking lot when school let's out is one of the most dangerous places in the world
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Most football HC's make the OC/DC hire the priority in their program. Most also say "players win games, not play calls". Which is it? S&C coach should be a major priority. If the sword isn't sharp, you won't win the fight. And for the record, I've been a HC, OC, and S&C coach.
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People often ask me if I miss coaching college football. In many ways I do, but I just ate breakfast with my daughter on her 1st day of middle school. I'm good. 👍
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Most of the time Twitter world shows you all the beautiful things. There's ugly in every weight room. But that's why we coach right? Here's the good, the bad, and the ugly. I ain't scared.
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I believe my job as a HS S&C coach is to help kids master movement, not to chase numbers. You can't take calculus before you take Alg 1. Maybe I'm different......
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Speed work with middle schoolers. They played 2 hand touch for warm up cause it’s fun
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This week, all across the country, coaches unceremoniously handed a
#61
jersey to the husky kid that thought he was going to play RB
#RIPdreams
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Conditioning never gets much love on here but I like it so here it is.
30 seconds on 30 seconds off. 4 reps at each station. 3 sets through each.
“Coach, what we did was easy but it sucked.” 😂
@timkettenring
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Sport coaches talk about how games are won in the offseason.
However, many will come in the weight room & stand around talking to one another, or on their phone, or having convos with players.
What if the S&C coach came to practice and did that?
But let’s harp on discipline…
What opinion of yours in sports coaching will have you like this?
[Idea stolen by the way!]
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You know your S&C program is taking hold when your football coaches don't have veins popping out of their heads when you take a 4 minute rest between reps during sprint training.
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Peanut butter and strawberry jelly
Is Superior
To peanut butter and grape jelly
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"Coach, what are the best supplements to take?"
"FOOD"
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“We’re just a small school. We can’t do all the stuff you do.”
1- you have a phone. Get an app and time max v.
2- there’s a hill somewhere near you. It’s 1 of the best tools for accel.
3- you have grass. All you need to change directions
4- you have a weight room
“Yes you can”
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I've seen alot of S&C guys mocking the # of Zoom clinics going on. But, for many HS coaches, especially sport coaches that run their own training, that is a great thing. Knowledge is needed. Just because you feel like it's redundant doesn't mean someone else isn't learning
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A good rule of thumb to live by as a HS strength coach: I train athletes not weightlifters. Their sport is more important than "numbers".
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