WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 109: 4 Weeks Left (Feat. Jeremy Scott) 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:08.959 Hello friends, Happy holidays, and welcome to the Happy half Hour. 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:12.920 We've got a few more weeks of the experimental edition 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:16.840 of the Happy half Hour because we're in the midst 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.240 of a transition up here in the digital team, as 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:21.680 you're aware of. The football team might be as well. 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:23.919 But I have good news to share right out of 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:24.759 the top of the show. 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:26.640 How about this, d L. 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:30.319 We are going to have a new regular on the 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:32.360 Happy half Hour beginning very soon. 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:34.720 Miss Cassidy Hill is. 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:39.559 Joining Panthers dot Com Digital to help us write. She 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:43.160 will be getting here next week. Here's a sick joke 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:45.240 for you that's coming down the stretch of a season. 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.879 She is coming to us from the Green Bay Press 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:51.680 Gazette in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where she covers the Green 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.360 Bay Packers. Her first game as a member of the 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.400 Panthers dot Com Digital staff, we'll be against the Green 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.000 Bay Packers, so I feel pretty good about the know 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:02.240 your foe that week. 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.280 She probably knows that foe pretty well. 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:08.240 So we are excited to get Cassidy in here, and 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.880 you guys are gonna love her. She's got an enthusiasm 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:15.000 about her. She is has been doing this job for 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.480 a while she's covered the Jaguars, she's covered the Packers. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:21.199 I'll let her introduce herself when she gets here, probably 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:23.319 on this podcast in a couple of weeks. We should 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.160 probably break her in Christmas week, maybe something like that. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.080 She can tell us about packing up in the middle 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.240 of the season and how her new boss is real 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.720 jerk by making her drive a U haul from Green Bay, 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.880 Wisconsin to Charlotte in the middle of December to come 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.240 start a new job. But we're excited to get her 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.920 in here. She will become a regular on the Happy 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.440 half Hour, and you know, there may be all kind 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.880 of other changes to the Happy half Hour. You never know, 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.600 we might get that long awaited delightful beverage sponsor. 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:54.520 You know, I think that would be perfect. 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:58.080 I've got our friends downstairs working on that seems natural 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.680 to me if we're gonna call this thing the half Hour. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:02.880 But what do I know? So here's what I know. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.000 There are four weeks left in the regular season, beginning 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.480 with this week's game against the Atlanta Falcons. It seems 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.760 like forever ago when we last saw the Atlanta Falcons, 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.040 and that's because it was It was a coach a go, 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:20.280 It was a lot of expectations ago. It was about 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.040 three months ago when this season opened up. Down in 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.760 the I started to call it to Georgia Dome. Oh 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.079 my god, how old am I? That Building's not even 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.040 there anymore. Come on there and wake up. 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:35.760 Have some more coffee, another delightful beverage I could use 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:36.360 right now. 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.480 So anyway, Yes, it's been a long time since we've 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.440 seen the Atlanta Falcons coming down the stretch of the air. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.720 It's weird to say, the first place Atlanta Falcons, but 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.000 that's just kind of the state of this division. 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.880 And you know, that made me think. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.880 Earlier this week in the mail bag, I pointed out 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.360 just how close this Panthers team is to, you know, 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.320 potentially getting back in the mix for you know, first 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:02.480 place in a bad division. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:03.239 That kind of thing. 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.240 I've joked forever that the NFC South's kind of like 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.720 a trailer park and somebody's got to be the president 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.040 of the hoa And that's the way it is. This year. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.720 The Falcons are six and seven, not a great team 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.400 by any stretch of the imagination, but they're you know, 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.720 in first in this division. But the Carolina Panthers, to 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.919 put them into context with what's going on around them. 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.079 They are thirtieth in the NFL in scoring this year, 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.840 averaging about fifteen point two points per game. The NFL 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.160 average is between twenty one and twenty two points a game. 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:34.720 I think the. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.000 Chargers are sixteenth in the league and scoring. They're averaging 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.680 twenty one point seven points per game per game. So, 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.760 just for the sake of this exercise, let's round up. 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.560 Let's say twenty two points a game. If your Carolina 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:53.240 Panthers scored twenty two points and only twenty two points 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:57.240 in every single game this season, not one point more, 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.880 not one point less, they would be six and seven 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.320 and tied with those Atlanta Falcons for first place in 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:09.280 this flying division. So it just shows you if the 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.440 offensive fix comes in, if they can find a coach 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:16.359 who's able to stabilize thing, you know, it doesn't have 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.039 to be that far. I know there's a lot of 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.120 doom and gloom out there, and I'm familiar with the 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.800 internet too. I look around and everybody's like, Oh, this 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.760 team's five years away from competing. I don't really think 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.159 it has to be that way. When you think about 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.720 the opportunity to make some pretty significant changes this offseason 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:35.600 in terms of the amount of money they've got to 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.640 spend on free agency, they're going to be players, and 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.160 I would imagine they're going to be players for some 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.640 offensive targets. I would imagine there will probably be a 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:49.160 player for maybe some line help fortify that guard position. 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.200 And it makes sense to me when you've run through 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:55.320 as many guards as they have this year, it's natural 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.600 to want to address that area, and I think that's 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:02.000 a possibility. So when I we pulled together that number 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.440 earlier this week, it just kind of just kind of 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.560 blew my mind that that's how close this team actually is. 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:09.880 That if you can go from being down. 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.440 Near the bottom of the rankings offensively to just the 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.479 middle of the pack with what's on hand on defense, 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.200 this thing could turn around pretty quickly. I truly believe that, 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.440 because no matter what happens, and you know, a lot 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.599 of things can change based on the preferences of the 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.880 new coach who comes in here, whoever that happens to be, 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.120 And we're a couple of weeks away from even thinking 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.400 about what that coaching serch is gonna look like. But 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.400 depending on what the next coach wants, there's a pretty 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.559 good base of talent. I mean, you begin with Derek Brown, 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.960 who's playing like an absolute beast right now. 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:43.520 He is. 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.240 Somebody made the point to me that Cortes Kennedy was 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.719 once named an NFL Defensive Player of the Year on 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.720 a two and fourteen Seahawks team. I don't know that 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.320 Derek's gonna win Defensive Player of the Year, but Derek's 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.839 been one of the most impressive defensive players in the 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.919 NFL this season, and to be able to make the 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.400 kind of impact he's made on a defense where not 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.320 much is going right around him on the other side 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.720 of the ball has been impressive. But Derek Brown's gonna 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.440 be back next year. Shaq Thompson's gonna be back next year. 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:16.039 The secondary is turnkey, you know, Dante, JC Vaughn, Xavier. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.400 Those guys are all under contracting back. Brian Burns is 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:23.159 gonna be franchise tagged. I'm certain, I'm almost certain of 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:24.880 it if they don't get a deal done prior to 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.440 free agencies. So I think you're looking at the beginnings 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.920 of what could be a pretty good defense, no matter 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.800 who the coach is, and then if you can make 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.279 those additions on offense, you never know things could turn around, 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:41.880 but that's to be determined at a date in the future. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.920 For right now, we're gonna continue. I've kind of gotten 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:50.120 into this project a little bit. We started this as 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.560 a little bit of a lark of Darren trying to 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.000 fill a little time in this happy half hour by 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.680 letting you listen to someone other than Darren Yell at 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.720 the Cloud. And I've been going to around the building 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.640 talking to the support staff folks who keep up football 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.839 team moving. We started with Kate Callaway, director of Performance Nutrition. 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:12.000 We've gone through the training room. We talked to assistant 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.320 Special Teams coach Devin Fitzimmons, even though I used his 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.080 government name there. Fitz told us some great Chris Tabers 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.640 stories the other week, and this week I wanted to 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:22.840 kind of get into another area that I don't think 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.240 a lot of people have a clear picture of what 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:30.160 actually happens in. I had the opportunity to sit down 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.760 and visit with Jeremy Scott. Jeremy is the head strength 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.800 and conditioning coach who oversees the entire weight room operation 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:41.280 down there for the football team, and Jeremy was good 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.360 enough to share some time with me and kind of 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.960 explain how they go about keeping guys ready and keeping 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.480 guys strong for what is really a grind of an 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:54.880 NFL season, And it's pretty enlightening. I think, you know, 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.600 a lot of people have this perception that NFL weight 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.080 rooms just a bunch of racks of bench presses and 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.280 squat racks that you know, guys are in there grinding 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:07.000 out heavy weight and banging around, and you know, it's 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:08.480 kind of a lab down there. 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.520 But let's let Jeremy explain this. 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.720 He's the scientist. He knows how this stuff works. So 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:18.120 here's our conversation with Jeremy Scott. All Right, as promised 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.240 head strength and conditioning coach, Jeremy Scott joins us here 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.440 on the Happy half Hour. Jeremy, appreciate you taking a 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:25.200 couple of minutes. No, it's a busy time of year. 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.000 It is a busy time of year. But I'm happy 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.200 to be here and you know, get some information out 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.280 to the fans and give them a little insight on 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:32.719 what we do here and the wait when during the. 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.200 Season, Right, that's one of the first things I wanted 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.160 to ask you. I mean, it's we're going into the 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.679 last month of the season. People talk about the fourth quarter. 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.360 How is strength training and what you do with guys 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.600 here in the weight room different in December than it 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:49.840 is in November or October, September, or even March. 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.280 So March and the off season we obviously allowed to 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.800 train them a lot more, a lot more volume, a 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.400 lot more days. We'll run a four day split routine 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.320 with those guys during the off season. Right now, our 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.240 main concern is recovery, and they're so at this point 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.280 in the year, their bodies are fatigued and beat up, 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.520 but we still need to lift and move and keep 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:13.040 ranges of motion active and allow them to recover from 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.880 the game. So that's probably the biggest part of what 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.120 we're trying to do right now. And if anything, we 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:19.920 cut back a little bit of volume on the guys 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.360 that are playing a lot of reps. We get a 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.800 rep count every Monday morning and who had the most reps, 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:27.520 and we'll go down through that list and we'll kind 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.360 of go over their lifting plan and talk about where 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.000 we might want to cut some things out of here 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:33.520 and wait room to kind of make up for all 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.640 the action day and on Sunday, because Sundays are so 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.200 violent and the contact is so crazy and the outputs 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.160 are so high in terms of their running and their 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.760 efforts that the biggest thing we want to do on 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.079 Mondays is kind of get them back to zero from 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.160 the negative that they gave kind of put on their body, 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.520 and that's our main focus on Mondays. And then they'll 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.440 lift again one other time during the week, and I'd 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.600 let them choose whether that's a Wednesday or a Thursday, 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:58.760 and that'll kind of be like on the meat and 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.480 potatoes lift of the week, where we're gonna come in 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:05.360 and you know, have an Olympic variation whatever they're comfortable doing, 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.439 their main squad movement's main bench movements, shin up those 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.360 types of things and beyond that second day of the week. 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.640 So right now, it's like I said, it's it's more 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:17.080 about movement ranges of motion, keeping them active, keeping them 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.000 from getting stiff, stretching them, mobility, all those types of 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:21.120 things is our main concern. 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.800 Is it fair to say that you mentioned in March, 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.960 Is it fair to say that you build strength through 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.360 the off season and then it's maintenance throughout the course. 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:31.560 Of a four month regular season. 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:33.560 I never, I never looked at it. I don't like 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:35.760 that word maintained. I don't want guys coming in here 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.160 with the frame of mind that we're just kind of 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.400 coming in to go through the motions and maintain strength. 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:41.400 Every time they come in here, I want them to 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.720 push themselves and you know, give effort and kind of 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.400 try to you know, get stronger. You know, worst case scenario, 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:48.679 they keep the strength at the rat So what we 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.560 like to do is we run three week blocks during 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.360 the season. In those three weeks, you'll have like a 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.760 moderate week of volume, a low week of volume, and 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:57.600 a higher week of volume, and that's how we wave 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.439 it throughout the whole year. So on the high volume weeks, 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:02.640 the weight, the intensity or the weight on the bar 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:04.840 isn't as much as it would be like in a 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.960 low volume week. And those lovel volume weeks, we tried 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.720 to reach eighty percent intensity on the squad bench like 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:14.040 those main movements, and we feel like doing that every 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.719 three weeks where they touch eighty plus percent keeps them 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.480 strong throughout the year. And we just did that last 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.400 week and you know, everybody did pretty well with it. 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.840 And we also tracked the velocity based training will track 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.000 the bar speed as well. You see, are they still 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.280 moving the same weight as fast as they did in September, 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.560 you know, in terms of meters per second. So we 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:32.880 keep track of all those things. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.560 Yeah, it's it's way deeper than number of pounds on 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.120 the bar, a number of rips each guy's doing. You 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.120 you had talked me through some of this with Austin 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.800 Corbett's recovery from the ACL when he was in here, 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.640 really in that active phase for him. 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:47.400 Getting back in here. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.040 Talk about that velocity component and how big a deal 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.640 that is. I mean, you guys track every number that 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.160 these guys do, but I mean that that's one that 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.040 I don't think a lot of people are aware of that. 0:11:58.040 --> 0:11:59.840 You would track or keep up with. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.400 So we utilize the gym aware technology and that's basically 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.240 a TENDO unit, and there's a bunch of different ones 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.600 out there, but we feel this one that we attached 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:10.120 to the iPad gives us the best information that we 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:12.000 can have and it just measures the bar speed. So 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.600 if a guy's moving let's say four hundred and five 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.160 pounds on the squad at point eight meters per second 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.200 in September, and you know, if we put that on 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.200 the bar now and it's point five, then we see 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:23.920 how the fatigue is set in and his ability to 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.640 produce force has been affected by the game and the 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.240 accumulation of everything that goes on during the season. But 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.000 it allows us to kind of self regulate where we 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.880 have the certain rep schemes, the certain weights that we 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.280 want them to use, but we also have the speeds 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.200 that coordinate with those weights, and if they can't hit 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:43.240 those speeds, we will lighten the weights up to make 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:44.800 sure that they hit those speeds. So it's kind of 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:48.680 like a self autoregulatory process with the central nervous system 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:50.120 that if we have a certain weight on the bar 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.120 and the guy played a lot and is just shot, 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.560 then this speed will tell us that he's shot, and 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:56.200 we'll adjust the weights from there to get them up 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.800 to the speeds that we want them at. So let's say, 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:00.600 like I said, at four h five is move and slow, 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:02.240 then we'll drop the weight to try to get them 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.120 up to the same point eight for you know, just 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.160 as the number thrown out there, and we'll adjust the 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:07.840 weights they get them back up to that speed. Because 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.680 the speed of the movements really what we're focused on right now. 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.800 And you know how the movement pattern looks you know, 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.920 this is how's the squad look, you know, because a 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:17.800 lot of guys, you know, if if they're not looking 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:19.800 good on the warm upsets, you're not gonna look good 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.520 on them. We're starting to add the weight, so we 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.640 always keep that in mind as well. So and we 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.520 also have a lot of modifications so we'll make with 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:28.319 the guys during the year, you know, to your point 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.920 with you know, a guy that maybe started off to 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.600 your squatting and now does a belt squad because say 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.840 it's taking an alignment for example, because his low back 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:37.760 is so shot and the knees are sore and those 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:41.640 types of things. So, you know, mister and missus Stepper 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.440 have given us the opportunity, you know, with Fit and 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.120 Down to get all this equipment that we need to 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.120 kind of train around all these injuries that we see 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:47.640 during the year. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.640 And that's one of the things that is kind of amazing. 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.040 I think people have this perception in their mind of 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.200 what a weight room looks like, but this looks like 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.600 a computer lab attached to a weight rec I mean, 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:05.120 everything in here is is regulated, calculated, documented. I mean 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.760 that's the data component of this. To me, seems like 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.480 the thing that nobody realized what's going on. This is 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.280 not a guy walking around the gym carrying his clipboard 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:15.280 with him writing down. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:16.000 Number our rips. 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:17.520 This is this is science. 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.800 It is science, and you can ignore it. And you know, shoot, 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.160 when I started, I was back at Pennstane in ninety six, 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.440 that we don't have any of this right right, but 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.760 the ability to track guys, to see the speeds that 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:29.440 they're moving at things, they get them on the force 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.320 plates during the week. We have them to do nord board, 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.000 which is any centric hamstring monitor, so we can see 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.520 you know, any fatigue and the hamstrings fatigue and their jumps, 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.080 their ability to jump, their ability to absorb force as 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.480 that kind of goes down during the year. It just 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.400 allows us. It's another tool that allow us to make 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.680 the adjustments we need to kind of, you know, get 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.840 them back. I always use the word move the needle 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.600 in the right direction, you know what I mean. And 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.640 that's our main focus right now. So like the other 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.480 modalities that we have, you know that we're seeing right 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.200 now is a lot of party. Like again, I always 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.080 go back through the line because they're in a battle 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.400 every play, so sometimes their first lift of the week 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.360 or training session, will do it in the pool, you know, 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.760 unload the joints, get them in there. There's a compression 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.040 with being in the water to kind of help flush 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.240 out all the you know, the byproducts are playing in 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.680 the game. So we'll utilize the pool a lot during 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:17.400 this year as well. 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:22.440 Yeah, is there a misconception that you think people have 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.000 about what happens in that weight room in there that 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.520 doesn't match up the reality of what you guys do 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:28.160 today today. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.120 I think everybody just thinks it's always like heavy squats 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.480 and heavy bench and it's not. You know, you can't 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.560 come in here and just can continually beat down, you know, 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.080 their muscle scalable system in here with everything else they're 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.240 having to deal with. It's not just games, you know, 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:42.840 and either's practice. There's player loads that are in practice, 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.560 and you know, it's not it's not like they don't 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.320 do anything during the week. So there's that accumulation going 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:48.720 way back to it. You can even go back to 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.520 oks if you want, but especially during August, there's a 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.680 lot of accumulation on their bodies right now. So what 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.960 we're doing here again is that the main thing is movement. 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.480 Want them to move well, so again with all the 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:01.640 modifications that we have the ability to make in here, 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.040 I think that's you know, the misconception that it's kind 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:06.880 of like the grassroots train training. Well, we have to 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:08.520 utilize a lot of other things because a lot of 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.920 guys don't have the ability to squad anymore. They struggle 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:13.760 with some of the Olympic variations that we do, so 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:15.640 we have things for them for that, like med ball 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.800 work and those types of things. We have a furnomax. 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:20.400 So everything we try to do right now is train 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.280 them hard, train smart, but everything is trying to be 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.360 joint friendly at this point in time because we still 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.120 feel like their ability to come in here, you know, 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.080 and move the weights we want to move is important. 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.360 Even with three weeks left, it's still important. So it's 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.360 not like we get to the point where we stop training. 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:36.960 And I think the other thing that we get that 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.680 I didn't mention before with the gymalware technology is creates 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:43.080 intent and it creates competitiveness where guys might be working 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:44.960 out on the same rack and you might see someone 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:46.640 move a weight at a certain speed, Well, the next 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.440 guy's going to try to move that way to certain speed. 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.160 So it kind of keeps it interesting with the guys, 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.520 and it kind of helps us with the culture and 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.360 the environment that we want here. Were guys are pushing 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:58.000 each other and competing, so that never changes, you know, 0:16:58.040 --> 0:16:59.720 that's always the same guys. You can kind of get 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.080 on them another, and that's what we want. 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.840 Yeah, it's an environment in here. It absolutely is. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:06.879 I mean, and you see when guys are in here, 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.560 especially during the off season, if guys recovering from an 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.560 injury or something, that pushing each other is a pretty 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.400 important component of what you do here. 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:16.480 Yeah, it is. And I always looked at this place 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:18.600 as like their refuge because you know, there's there's no 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.360 cameras in here. It's just them being themselves and being 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.199 around their teammates and pushing themselves to get better. And 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.639 I always thought, you know, you know, champions and championships 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.480 are one when no one's watching, and that's basically what 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.600 the weight room is. You know, there's just them and 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.359 us and their coaches and they're solving here together kind 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.760 of pushing one another. So I think I love the 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:37.560 atmosphere these guys come in with. You know what, you know, 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:39.520 we're talking about misconceptions. You know, there might be that 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:41.920 misconception out there that you know, when you make a 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.199 team the NFL, then they don't train as hard. You know. 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.320 I've heard that when I was in college, and that's 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:48.639 I couldn't be further from the truth, especially here. You know, 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.679 these guys come in they're no business like, take care 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.040