Jeff Cavaliere

Look, I think the thing that you've done better than anybody is

practical implementation of the things that are going to benefit people that are not time consuming or overly time consuming.

They're easily implemented.

A lot of what I focus on is when we're talking about these drills or exercises to do, a lot of them are body weight or a lot of them are done in minimal space because the more elaborate it becomes or the more time consuming it is or whatever it is, there's just so many reasons for people not to do them.

And they are going to be viewed as the extra stuff until they become adopted and they realize how

much they're helping them it's always gonna be viewed as the extra stuff originally so to get someone to buy into the concept open up the time frame where they can do them let them do it during watching netflix let them do it while me while i'm on the floor doing some crunches after i've already done my workout like open up the restrictions so that you're still getting the effect but you're you're you're minimizing the the uh prescription of it so it's so demanding people don't want to do it

That brings up the point of like how sport specific training has evolved over the years.

There was a time when sport specific training meant doing everything that you could to replicate the motions of the sport and trying to strengthen those movement patterns.

I think gladly we've moved past that stage of training because you can get better at that movement pattern by simply doing that movement pattern.

you can increase the strength of your entire body by increasing the strength of your entire body.

So the focus of the weight room can be to do your general strengthening bilaterally, regardless of what movement pattern, direction your sport favors, and improve the strength there and the function there.

Because the carryover to your movement pattern is there.

Like when you get stronger and then you go back to swing a bat, you're going to still have the increased strength that you built in the weight room,

in your swing of the baseball bat.

And you can throw harder if you're a pitcher, or you can throw further if you're a quarterback, if you improve your overall arm strength and your upper body strength.

A lot of upper body throwing strength has nothing to do with your arm.

It has to do with the stability of your core.

So if you're getting much stronger in your core, you can have more torque generation to throw the ball further without having to do anything to your arm.

So I think the strategy should be

That when you're playing a sport and devoting a lot of time to it, whether at the professional level or not, you still should be focusing the majority of your strength training and conditioning work towards your overall balanced physique, trying to get strong across your entire body.