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The real Kurt Hester

JCB said:
Data meaning metrics. i.e. Speed testing numbers, lifting numbers, etc. All that stuff is valuable when looking at progress. It validates your training. If you don't know where you're at, how can you know where or IF you're even making progress? You have to track performance, so that's what I meant by data driven analysis.

And why test? Well that goes back to tracking performance and getting physical evidence of whether or not you're even improving.
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I would expect most S&C programs are tracking the basic data, especially if they are testing. It will be interesting to see whether the new coach will utilize a device like the Catapult to track movements during practice and training.

In terms of testing and progress...I could see testing speed but I disagree about testing lifting numbers if that test consists of one rep maxes. It's difficult to establish how increases in certain lifts are going to translate to better football play. Ideally I would think the lifting program is set up so you see progress without have to "test" so to speak. 315x3 in the bench press becomes 365x3 in the normal course of the training program and this way you don't need to max your guys out to validate you can get people stronger. Bottom line is need to see the improvements on the field.
 
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203CT305 said:
I would expect most S&C programs are tracking the basic data, especially if they are testing. It will be interesting to see whether the new coach will utilize a device like the Catapult to track movements during practice and training.

In terms of testing and progress...I could see testing speed but I disagree about testing lifting numbers if that test consists of one rep maxes. It's difficult to establish how increases in certain lifts are going to translate to better football play. Ideally I would think the lifting program is set up so you see progress without have to "test" so to speak. 315x3 in the bench press becomes 365x3 in the normal course of the training program and this way you don't need to max your guys out to validate you can get people stronger. Bottom line is need to see the improvements on the field.
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Yes and no. I mean, if guys are getting fitter and stronger, wouldn't you expect that to translate to on field success? Of course, no would would ever say "Well he made that tackle because he cleaned 350 for 1 in the offseason!!!", so you're right about 1RM's not necessarily being the say all be all when it comes to performance indicators.

And yeah, I'd be interested to see if we implement something like the catapult. I know FSU was implementing something similar. I know it's huge in soccer.
 
I spit out my coffee when he ran out of his shoe while demonstrating a drill and then told the players "You can't Mess with White Lighting!" OMG I am sold on this country redneck.

The Drills all make sense.

Go Canes
 
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I've mentioned before in other posts about the some of the more basic pivotal things we need in a S&C coach. After looking at his bio:
1. BS in ExPhys from Tulane, with graduate work at Tulane also as a graduate strength coach. (y)
2. NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and his USAW Certification(s). (y)

^ These are important and often overlooked for modern-day S&C coaches. Having a background in ExPhys with the requisite "gold standard" certifications from the NSCA or CSCCa does not make someone a great S&C coach, but it at least shows there is an aptitude for research and how modern day strength and conditioning has progressed to this point. There are just too many guys out there like Swasey with degrees in sociology who don't know anything about the science of strength and conditioning and go by "feel". These are high caliber athletes and we can't afford to have people in house whom don't understand biomechanics or energy systems.

3. He has good experience in the private sector as a business owner, but also as an assistant and director of strength and conditioning at the collegiate level. (y)
4. He appears to take seriously data tracking. (y)

^ I was at a national conference a few years ago and there were a number of devices being shown to track all manner of things, with the most common being heart rate. You could have all your guys in a workout put on their heart rate monitors and it would display on a large screen through Polar's software where each guy was at and what true percentage it was of their actual MaxHR (which would have been taken - not estimated - earlier and logged.) If you knew in this particular phase of conditioning you wanted guys to be pushed hard, >90%, you could see in real time who was bull****ting and not actually working as hard as they should be.

The coach made a point to say that FSU had adopted this entire system and was implementing it the following year. It made me so frustrated that we have been so behind on these types of things for so long. That Hester sees the value in data-driven training is a good thing to me.

5. Let's be honest, he's a little nutty. (y) You don't have to be, but some of the best strength coaches I've worked with occasionally had a ***** loose.

Overall, I think this would be a great hire.
 
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