Valid point, I do have issues with the state of college athletic strength training in general which might be clouding my opinion. Unfortunately I'm putting thins together based on minimal information from what I see CU doing and adding a large chunk of what I think they're doing based on other coaches. I played a year of D1 baseball (before I gave it up due to my second Tommy John), we ran more distance than sprints. Which also might be a cause for my feelings toward Drew, I know coaches will have you do things that are detrimental to specific sport performance. There is absolutely no reason to make the core running distance 1500x larger than the furthest amount one will ever run at one time on a ball field.
There is just so much lack of knowledge about training in general, even with institutional guidance, half the crap they teach you is outdated and wrong. Ex. You aren't set with a certain composition of slow and fast twitch muscle fibers. Training endurance will make your fast twitch behave like slow twitch and vis versa.
https://renaissanceperiodization.com/muscle-fiber-types-change-training-end-unfounded-debate/
Guys like Bisharat frustrated the hell out of me. I won't get too picky with other players physique's but the dude looked like he never visited the weight room in four years. That dude should've weighed 15 lbs more than what he did Sr year. Fontenot is another. Granted, he's a damn good rb but I can't help but wonder if an extra 10lbs of muscle would give him better top end speed. They don't have to look like bodybuilders but I do question the physique of some of these players and wonder how much emphasis is placed on conditioning when every unit except the o line is rotated like whores through an NBA team. Midnight hammered conditioning
All I remember is thinking last year when Viska went out, that this was the third year in a row with injury problems. My proof for too many injuries will only be anecdotal, unfortunately. Doesn't help they are like an NHL team with giving out info for injuries.
LaViska was a core tear and pubic bone inflammation
Landman, Fontenot, and KD this year.
Purcell both years. I don't remember him getting rolled over this year but I might be wrong.
Mustafa last year
Chris Miller, Blackmon(?) can't remember other secondary players except the dude who cut his leg against Air Force but it felt like our whole starting secondary was out at one point. Same with o line
Guys like Poplawski, D Smith, Tonz, and Moretti but half this crap happens in practice so there is no way of knowing what actually happened. Can't remember what Tonz deal was either
Nate Landman. I don't think I've ever been hurt more by a Colorado players injury
I already told you I learned more from my former strength coach than at uni. I'll put it this way, in the world of strength training an apprenticeship with Louie Simmons is worth more than all the University degrees combined. Louie Simmons was not my strength coach but his name was equally well known in powerlifting circles before he died.
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