Today I have part 1 of a recent interview I did for my buddy Craig Ballantyne.
Craig Ballantyne: Jay, why don’t you give us a little bit of background about who Jason Ferruggia is? Some of the readers may not be familiar with your stuff, so just give us the Renegade Strength Coach background.
Jason Ferruggia: Sure. I’ve been training people since the early 90’s. In 1994 I opened up Renegade Gym in New Jersey with the money I had saved up. I was actually still going to school at the time [...]
It’s almost impossible to imagine it today, but there was a time, many years ago, when athletes avoided strength training like the plague for fear that it would make them slow and “muscle bound.”
Fortunately we have long since discovered that that was a myth and nowadays just about every athlete on the planet, from tennis players and golfers to football players and wrestlers, participates in some type of strength training program. This is frequently talked about by the announcers and highlighted in pregame videos.
How the sporting world has changed over [...]
Question: What is the best way to stay hydrated during training camp and two-a-days? Is there a certain hydration “procedure” during hot weather workouts, which may or may not be limited to a certain form of drink mix.. ( ie, fruit, vitamin supplements, change of food intake, etc.. )
Despite the best efforts of football staffs, we seem to hear of disasters in this area every year……I want to just try and give my son every advantage that I can…
Answer: The best thing I’ve found, that I I’ve used with [...]
In between sets of box jumps recently one of my athletes asked me why we don’t train calves.
“You wanna train calves?” I asked.
“Well, I’d like to have some bigger calves. I mean, mine look kinda silly, being so small and all.”
“Have you seen mine? Not exactly what you’d call huge. More like tomato cans.”
“There not as small as mine, though.”
“Yeah, but I’m 30 plus pounds bigger than you. Proportionately they’re the same.”
“So, you don’t train your calves?”
“Nope.”
“Why not?”
“Well, first of all, I hate training calves. I hate all isolation movements [...]
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