Step By Step Training for Wrestlers By Age
General Guidelines- Prepare your child for contact and lifelong body health. Warning! Driven wrestling parents won’t think that this is enough. I disagree. My goal with this is to protect a kid’s body and have them ready for serious competition around puberty. Disguise the workouts as fun or competition with friends. Under 10 boys love […]
Weighing in with Marco Vespa
I just talked with Marco Vespa. Marco is a 2x NY State medalist, he took 3rd in last years tournament. Marco is going into his senior year and just committed to Penn State. PSU is loaded with young light weight talent: RBY, Teasdale, Teske, Davis, Busiello just name the obvious. Can he take a big […]
How to Be Your Best at the Start of the Season
Get back on your workout routine for strength, conditioning of the body and mind and dial-it-in to be lean and mean. Learn from previous years’ failures. The harder you train the harder it is to give up on a goal. Get more recovery time than you think that you need. Don’t even think about dieting. […]
Strength & Speed
If you want your strength to increase you need to grow your muscles. To grow your muscles you need to put them through stress. Wrestlers want strength with as little bulk as possible unless going up a weight class. If you are a wrestler or just an athlete you want the exercises you’re doing to […]
Big Ten TV revenue distribution reaches an insane $51 million per school
The crazy, crazy money in college athletics keeps getting crazier. I don’t see how it can continue at this pace. That’s a huge payday for all parties involved and was to be expected given the recent changes to the Big Ten media partnerships. The advent of conference networks and new television rights deals have led […]
ISIS Suicide Bombers Target Afghan Wrestling Match, Killing 22
A pair of attackers from ISIS hit a wrestling match in the Shi’ite part of the Afghan capital city of Kabul. The first attacker killed a guard outside the sports center, forced his way in, and detonated in the crowd. A second bomber detonated outside in a car, causing more casualties. The wrestling club that […]
Strength and Movement
There has been a lot of talk about strength training in the wrestling world spurred on by Kyle Snyder showing off much of his training on social media. Many old school wrestlers and coaches were brought up with the idea that lifting weights tends to make you slower. That may have been true with the […]
They All Just Can’t Be Into You.
Have you seen the stats? Kids aren’t enrolling in contact sports like they used to. When parents wrap their sons in bubble wrap it is hard to get those same kids interested in a sport that requires rough physical contact. A young coach called me just the other day to talk about a problem that […]
It’s not too late, summer lifestyle pays winter dividends
I see some many high school and college kids that want to get better but they are making decisions that won’t help them get better. I promise you that staying up late, playing hours of Fortnite (or any video game) and otherwise living a sedentary life style, punctuated by a couple hours of working out […]
Weighing In with Pat Downey -Unattached Assassin
I talked with Pat earlier today. I enjoyed our rangy conversation. Downey is an individual that has taken a winding road to being a very good wrestler and it seems everyone has strong opinions about him. I’m a fan of individualism and of Pat’s unshakeable competitive mindset. I hope he finds a place to settle […]
Final X Results & Extended Interviews at Lehigh University
Men’s Freestyle Match 1 61 Joe Colon Fresno, CA (Titan Mercury Wrestling Club) VPO1 Nahshon Garrett Tempe, AZ (Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club), 7-5 92 J’den Cox Columbia, MO (Titan Mercury Wrestling Club) VPO1 Hayden Zillmer Crosby, MN (Minnesota Storm), 5-2 125 Nick Gwiazdowski Raleigh, NC (Titan Mercury Wrestling Club) VPO1 Adam Coon Fowlerville, MI (NYAC), […]
How To Take Care of the Body and Mind this Summer
Heal up the body and mind. If you have had any injuries go see a doctor of osteopathy (DO), a quality physical therapist (myo-fascial release) or sports psychologist to ensure that they really heal up. The mind is just as important as the body. The next step would be to strengthen the formerly weak […]
Weighing in with Alec Pantaleo
I talked with Alec Pantaleo earlier today. Alec is a 2x AA place winner with his highest finish 5th last March in Cleveland. Pantaleo is one of my favorite wrestlers. He can go with and beat anyone when he’s on his game. Not sure what weight class he will be at next season but if […]
10 Things for wrestlers to work on over the summer
Make the Changes necessary to reach your goals. I promise that it won’t be easy. So you can dive into the pain of growth or delay the pain of failure until next season. The choice is yours. Good luck. Be a multi sport athlete. Take a competitive break from wrestling but still get some […]
