How many of them are going to stay in town and work with him is my thought. As a group, they seem pretty chickenshit so I wouldn't be surprised if some of them flee from it instead of leaning into it.
I spent a little time reviewing some of Gailvin's videos on youtube where he articulates some of his basic idea and programs for strength and conditioning.
Look, I'm far from an expert, but I understand some basics about how to develop strength and as far as I'm concerned Gailvin is nothing special. He's like so many modern day professional athletic coaches in the way they introduce unneeded complexity into their strength routines, depending heavily on band work, isometric resistance, light dumbbell work, hex bars etc. with a heavy focus on volume over intensity.
He even explicitly mentions in one video I watched how he is getting away from "spinal loading."
Huh?
Look, heavy compound lifts by their nature require some degree of spinal loading. You're not going to barbell squat, deadlift, or press without some degree of spinal loading. But here's the thing: these lifts are by their very nature and simplicity the building blocks of strength development. In the extreme, strength guys like Bjornsson, Hall, and Shaw didn't get to where they are by focusing on single leg kettlebell lunges, side planks, and ab rollouts, which I assure you figure prominently in Gailvan's approach to strength development. No, they got there by squatting, deadlifting, and pressing ever heaver amounts, progressing linearly by adding incremental more weight to the barbell and thus increasing strength -- the ability to produce force against an external object.
Those principles of strength development apply to everyone. Progressive overload is the as old as the Greek myth of Milo of Croton. You get stronger by adding weight to the bar, and going up in weight each training session. Sadly this basic fact is lost on most modern day strength coaches who train professional athletes. Too often the focus of these coaches is to develop programs that allow elite athletes to display their genetically elevated levels of strength and conditioning, rather than challenging athletes to grow stronger via simple. compound lifts progressed linearly . Getting a pro athlete to do 10 30lbs dumbbell goblet squats on a bosu ball -- while visually impressive -- does absolutely nothing to increase their overall level of strength. Getting a NHLer hockey player to up his back squat from 185 to 405, well now we're getting somewhere. That kind objective gain in raw strength allows the athlete to become more effective at their sport while improving their overall resistance to injury as tendons, ligaments, muscles and bones grow to adapt to the increasing amount of stress applied to the body..
So basically I don't think Gailvin will move the needle in regards to our overall team strength levels. Maybe we'll see some gains in conditioning when the season starts if players commit to his overly complex and voluminous levels of HIIT type movements, but I don't expect any noticeable improvements in team toughness, nor do I think his approach will have any positive effect on injury rates.
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