Last Saturday was the first annual University of South Florida Football Strength and Conditioning Clinic.

Since I just live across Tampa Bay from the school (I actually took my last class for my Master’s Degree there), and 2 friends of mine were speaking, I decided to take a road trip and head over there.

Ron McKeefery, Head Strength Coach at USF, was speaking, as well as NFL veteran, and my former boss, Mark Asanovich.

Ron and I, as well as Clinic Coordinator Aaron Komarek, all worked together under Mark for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2001-2002.

Of course, I couldn’t do any filming during the speakers’ presentations (they will be offering a DVD for sale soon-I will keep you posted), but suffice to say that Mark polarized the audience of strength coaches, football coaches and personal trainers with his High Intensity approach to football strength and conditioning-half loved it and learned from it, half thought he was nuts for not including “ballistic” training in his program.

The title of his talk was “The 5 P’s of Strength Training”.

At the risk of copyright infringement (anything for you guys), the 5 P’s were:

Prudent
Productive
Practical
Purposeful
Player Friendly

I’ve probably heard that one a dozen times over the years-but solid advice never gets old.

Here’s a little video of my road trip-including a guided tour of the SERIOUS USF Weightroom:

P.S.–Another road trip coming next month! 2010 Strength and Conditioning/Athletic Development Michigan Clinic, featuring my boy Jim “The Human Flag” Kielbaso, and legendary H.I.T. strength coach Mike Gittleson. If you’re going, make sure you find me and say hello…if you’re not going, you should be.

P.P.S.–Big announcement coming later this week!

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