Smart also hasn’t announced if he’s keeping Hock at UGA, although the 2 worked together at Bama for many years, so you’d think he might.
Just speculating, but one name to keep in mind might be John Thomas, who has been the assistant SC coach at Georgia for 4 years. Even though he works under the 36-yr-old Hock, he is a long-time SC vet, having been Penn State’s SC coach for 20 years, and was the 1997 SC coach of the year (and once was the SC coach for the US military academy).
He is known for the HIT (high intensity training) method of strength training, which in the SC world is about the exact polar opposite of the Moffitt/Hatch/etc style (but is also what Miami used back under Daryl Hewlett). (In a nutshell, the HIT method likes to isolate muscles and then work them to exhaustion with high reps—more pure muscle building, where Hatch et al prefer Olympic-style lifts that work on total body explosion—more focus on athletic power, and less on pure muscle building)
Anyway, no idea whatsoever about him, but maybe Richt likes him and maybe he’s itching to be the boss again.
Sounds outdated
Is outdated. Olympic style lifts working the whole body > isolating muscles.
I would imagine the guy isn't that dense though.
Want to train football players? Cleans, jerks, squats, deads, snatches, etc
To train football players/dynamic athletes you need to take an integrated approach that consists of functional strength, balance, flexibility, mobility, core work, HIIT, diet (hugely important), AND Olympic lifting. In a nutshell, you need
all of it to burn fat, build muscle, increase endurance (muscle endurance and lung capacity), increase flexibility/balance, and to develop both fast and slow twitch muscles.
Also, I notice everyone here is writing "HIT", but it is 'HIIT' --it is spelled with two "I's", not one. It means "High Intensity Interval Training." And I am not trying to come across as a know it all, but I've been doing Olympic lifting for 16 years, and I've been a competitive CrossFitter for the last 5 years. In short, I work out a sh*t ton, and I've seen everything.
All that said, HIIT is extremely important to developing football players, especially given the nature of the sport (i.e., explosive movements, quick burst, lots of sprinting in game). To understand that, you need to have a clear understanding of what a HIIT workout is and what it is not.
HIIT will accomplish two goals: it will help accelerate fat loss and improve aerobic and anaerobic endurance. When you do a cardio session at the same pace, your body goes into what is called "steady state." This means that your body has adjusted itself to the speed of your movements and tries hard to conserve energy (calories). HIIT stimulates the body in a way that cannot be paralleled by other methods of cardio. Constant change which allows for higher intensity is the key to HIIT.
The main aim of HIIT, like many other methods, remains to be an overall reduction in bodyfat and to improve endurance, but here are the keys: Aerobic exercise enhances respiratory and circulatory efficiency by improving oxygen consumption. Aerobic movements require oxygen to generate force, and enlist slow-twitch muscles for activity over sustained periods of time (minutes to hours). Examples of aerobic exercise includes cardio, jogging, cycling, and running marathons.
Anaerobic exercise, on the other hand, does not require oxygen to generate force. Anaerobic movements use fast-twitch muscles for short bursts of intense activity lasting only brief durations of time (ranging typically from a few seconds to up to a minute). Examples of anaerobic exercises includes isometric holds, burpees/up and downs, tabata circuits (20 seconds on/all-out and 10 seconds off/rest, for 8 intervals) sprinting, and
high-intensity weightlifting. I underline this fact, because the HIIT workout CAN incorporate Olympic lifting (snatches, deads, clean and Jerks, etc.,). CrossFit does a great job integrating Olympic lifts into many WOD’s (which are HIIT workouts to the core)
Lastly, you can live in the gym and work out all day long, but your genetics are key. If you have ****ty genes then all the working out in the world won’t turn you into an elite level athlete. In short, recruiting! Find the recruits with the right genetic makeup, and then you pour all this Godly goodness (i.e., what I wrote about) into him.
