High Intensity Interview of the Month: Steve Murray
Time for the latest High Intensity Nation Interview of the Month!
This month we are very fortunate to have with us the Strength and Conditioning Coordinator of the University of Toledo Rockets, Steve Murray.
Steve has had a long, impressive career as a Strength and Conditioning Coach, including working at the West Point Military Academy, with the Super Bowl Champion Washington Redskins of the NFL (where he worked under Dan Riley), and of course his current position with Toledo. He has also been using High Intensity Training himself for a very long time, and trains all his athletes that way too.
Listen to this informative and entertaining interview to learn:
- How, as a kid, he used “pop bottles” in his strength training routine-trust me, you have not heard this before
- His extensive experience with negative-only training
- What Barbeque and High Intensity Training have in common
- Examples of High Intensity Training routines he uses with his athletes
- The trick he once played on his athletes-and why they still haven’t forgiven him
- How dangerous being a Strength Coach can be-especially outside the weight room
- And much, much more!
To hear the Steve Murray interview, just click on the play arrow (the little triangle on the left) below:
Don’t forget to leave a comment!
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In 2007 I got hooked on this kind of negative only work because it literally makes you grow every day.
BUT
I made a nasty discovery. Young’s Moduluce ( Stress over Strain )
If you are pulling a spring to its limits it will eventually reach an overload which will cause damage, same for a rubber band.
Under perfect slow candence I was doing negative only dips with weight, when to my horror, my right triceps tendon ruptured. I was not doing anything fast silly or ballistic.
So a word of warning.
Beware of going TOO heavy as the strain will cause a blow out. Stress is the key.
I still get a great effect from these negatives but with more care and less ego.
Now I always pre-exhaust with triceps push downs first and never do these dips with a weighted belt.
We all have limits. Train to be well.
Rob