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Text By: David Larkan
(Page Two)
TM: What type of athletes do you train (type of sports)?
SR: Individuals from team sports make up the majority of my clients. Football, baseball, basketball, rugby and soccer, volleyball as well as some tennis players, cheerleaders, wrestlers, mixed martial artists and even a bull rider to name a few. I don't know much about endurance training although I have trained cyclist to get stronger and improve their core. Many of my clients are former athletes that want to get back into shape. They may not be competing anymore but miss the shape they were once in.
TM: Describe your training philosophy in a nutshell?
SR: Most all team sports require short bursts of explosive movements that consists of strength, power and changes of direction. It is important to train the person to be more "athletic" and get them strong in a balanced way for both injury prevention and speed development.
TM: Okay, we now know your training techniques and philosophies, so how do you monitor your athletes from over training?
SR: Good question. I always encourage proper nutrition and recovery methods that will help them with recuperation. Many of my high school athletes have to train at school as well. Before each session I always ask them what they did at practice that day at school so that I will not push them too hard. Maybe it's a day to work on prehap exercises instead.
TN: Sean, give us your top five tips for performance enhancement.
1. Practicing perfect technique with exercises is much safer and beneficial than over loading with weight and using sloppy form.
2. Train movements such as pushing, pulling, squatting, lunging, rotating, sprinting, and cutting not individual muscles (pecs, lats, etc.). The key is to have a well balanced strength program.
3. Practice and learn good nutritional habits.
4. A simple program done well is better than most advanced programs done poorly.
5. Train at Ross Strength and Speed! (Read past articles: "The Need for Speed" and "The Seven Deadly Sins of Training" from past issues of Today's Man.
TM: How does your approach to training differ from others around our state?
I really do not know much about other programs out there, but I look at the big picture instead of the quick fix. Patience and steady progress is much more beneficial to an athlete's development as well as keeping them healthy.
TM: Who is your most amazing athlete? (If you don't say me, I will never put you on the cover of the magazine)
SR: I am just as proud of the 13-year-old kid that can front squat an empty bar using perfect technique as I am the 200 pound bench presser. As far as the awards go, the most decorated would be Ellis Karvoski, the nations #1 female rugby player. Ellie was a great athlete before I started training her but by applying this type of training philosophy, she has made the All World Cup, the US Player of the Year and her crowning achievement, the Co-MVP of the 2005 103.7 Buzz Bowl! Nathan Campbell from Hazen has also been a great success story. Nathan had never lifted weights ni high school and since he has started training here as a Junior, he has received a $200,000 scholarship to play linebacker for Vanderbilt University. And of course, there's Dave "Rudy" Larkan, the publisher of this fine magazine and whose spirit and passion for athletic competition is only limited by his 48-year-old body.
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