I understand more about it than you think. I competed in the USPF in the early 80's. You can find me on openpowerlifting.com. I will let you spend some time figuring out who I am. I also coached at two highschools from 1982-1996. My teams spent more time on the mat, than the weight room. When we did lift in the off season, pulling motions, and explosive lifts (powercleans) were a staple of our training.
Realize I have not touched a weight since 1996 so I am a bit behind in current training methods, but to me you get better at wrestling, by wrestling. It is a feel sport that requires a high level of body control and conditioning.
I am not too sure I can figure out who you are but obviously you know a thing or two about lifting. I am about as big a proponent of lifting to improve athletic performance as you will ever see. That being said, in ANY sport you need to TRAIN the sport and it is the most important thing to do to get better.
Not too sure how much you really studied lifting? Power Clean-Olympic style, in my opinion are about the worst thing an athlete can do. The reason is the incredible amount of stress on the joints. Now some coaches will modify them, put just consider the CLEAN position. Think bout the wrists, elbows, and shoulders!!!
Knees and shoulders are the two most common injuries in wrestling and coaches should protect them at all costs! Do everything in season, and off season, which includes proper lifting exercises!!!
By the way, do you know why Olympic lifts became so popular?
All this may be true, yet some strength training focuses seem to have a higher risk of injury vs performance benefit reward ratio when it comes to peak wrestling. Taken with a need to optimize for limited available time, strength training techniques would necessary get prioritized appropriately.
Some might argue, tOSU has misplaced its priorities.
But how would you say Iowa wrestling has done to manage its strength training priorities? Were you happy with Warner, for example?
Lifting MAX weights when training correctly is not dangerous and strengthens the joints. I had knee surgery( torn cartilage from wrestling) and the doctor who did the surgery 1) did not believe I had a bad knee because 2) it was so strong and stable. When he went in he could not believe it was bone on bone. Long story short, he said my ligaments and tendons were like rope. He could hardly move my need to work. This from a doctor who worked on many Pro athletes.
Not sure why some on here are critical of tOSU? their wrestlers as I said looked well trained!
I would say about IOWA that their training is my biggest concern! I have watched what I could find and most of it honestly sucks!!! That being said, just about every college, HS teams training programs I have seen suck!
Way behind the times, do not understand various training techniques, I could go on and on. That is one reason i asked about PSU. I would love to actually see the wrestlers in the weight room. Will add 2 stories, I had a kids I trained in HS go on to college. One to wrestle, the other to play football.
Well one day the wrestling kid left his "program" on my desk to look at. I asked him if he had a pet parrot? He said why? I said put this on the bottom of the cage!!! He was not happy but it was the truth! The 2nd kid was at my gym and he is on one station, then he is on another, and another. He is hitting one body part, then another, and another.....
I ask him after a while, what in hell is it you are doing? He hands me like a note book of papers, this is my program. I look at it and I am like, what in GODS name is this??? Then I started laughing because I coached football with his father so I thought they were playing a joke on me????
NOPE, it was real, and I said Chris. If you was on Steroids and training for the MR. O you wouldn't even be doing all of this in one workout!!!
One thing that has always struck me as odd are the Iowa fan complaints about Cael leaving Iowa State for PSU. Shouldn’t Iowa fans be happy that Cael isn’t still at Iowa State? Of course, who knows what would happen in an alternate reality where Cael & Co. are coaching ISU, but it isn't a stretch to think Iowa would be chasing ISU instead of PSU (or, perhaps chasing both). I think Iowa fans should be happy Cael left ISU so that you can still get these HUGE wins each year.
Us IOWA fans do not like the way he left, and SOME of the supposed reasons he came to PSU. I have said it vERY clearly, if everything is level for all programs, then GOD speed to you. You can ague up and down about the WHYs but you can not ague the facts. There is an incredible discrepancy in recruiting between you guys and EVERYONE else!
@IRONBIRD
You may want to read this slowly.
Symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and how severe they are can vary. People with the disorder can:
- Have an unreasonably high sense of self-importance and require constant, excessive admiration.
- Feel that they deserve privileges and special treatment.
- Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements.
- Make achievements and talents seem bigger than they are.
- Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate.
- Believe they are superior to others and can only spend time with or be understood by equally special people.
- Be critical of and look down on people they feel are not important.
- Expect special favors and expect other people to do what they want without questioning them.
- Take advantage of others to get what they want.
- Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others.
- Be envious of others and believe others envy them.
- Behave in an arrogant way, brag a lot and come across as conceited.
- Insist on having the best of everything — for instance, the best car or office.
WOW guys, I may have narcisism How many of these do I have to have to be diagnosed Doc.???
