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See, I think the problem here is that the line from the back angle is currently in your butt. That's causing you to be a know-it-all at the moment. We picked up a football player, not a weightlifter, and yet there are more comments here regarding the videos of his max reps on 2 lifts than there are on his highlights. How about we just move away from the weightlifting comments and let our current S&C coach, who is now a Master Strength and Conditioning Coach, worry about his lifting.

True Story. When my fiance (gf at the time) and I were walking around NOVA looking at potential places for her to live when she moved up here we passed a few people wearing ball caps and she leaned in and asked "Why are there so many Wisconsin fans up here?"

I have been teasing her about it ever since. I keep joking that I'm going to get her a Wisconsin hat to wear to Nats games

Explosiveness is not as trainable as many think. It is more of a genetic trait. At the same time, the power clean requires strength to perform.

About half true. What you are talking about are fast twitch and slow twitch muscles that perform different duties and while it is true there is some genetic component to their make up, everyone has slow and fast twitch muscles and you can focus on training them. Sauce: https://www.acefitness.org/blog/5714/slow-twitch-vs-fast-twitch-muscle-f...

While I 100% agree it is hard to teach the power clean, I am going to make the assumption that the school's trainer, a personal trainer, or someone in his life is devoting extra time to this kid's development and is ensuring that he is getting the proper technique to go along with his lifts. When he transitions to college he will have trainers who are having him do the same lifts.

You may not like the powerclean but JC Coleman had a whole spot on twitter about his powerclean last year if I remember correctly. Keene is trying to show he is ready to transition to big boy land.

This guy is also 6' 4". He's covering plenty of distance in his squat to engage the major muscle groups in his legs, maybe not as much of his glutes as he should I concede, but that's how you build strength. I'd be way more concerned with egregious arching of his back as opposed to not hitting parallel. There is nothing unsafe about not hitting parallel but I'm going to still count it.

Lol I knew somebody was going to say this. Yes he is high, and yes he is a little higher than most people realize but it doesn't mean it's not impressive. I worked as a GA under coach Gentry and one of the first things we had to teach by far most kids that came into the program was how to do the major movements properly such as how to squat correctly to depth. If you watched the snapchat videos from before spring practice you will notice that Hilgart has the guys squatting either to depth, or just about an inch or two high if their mobility just isn't there yet. So yes while Keene is about 5-6 inches from actual parallel, (as defined by typical contest standards [ie. the hip crease]) what he is doing is still very impressive and will translate to some serious functional strength down the road.

This is an unfair way to attack the defense. ANY defense (see Alabama last year) can only do so much after a play breaks down and a QB has bought extra time. Scheme has never been able to account for a Tyrod Taylor/Deshaun Watson scrambling. You can harp on the d line getting too far upfield, and that's more of an individual player issue sometimes, but also staying at home to defend the escape lanes doesn't always work (see crazy miracle scrambles) and it is more conservative and leads to less sacks.

Additionally, we have actually struggled with designed runs the last two years with QB counters in particular. Poor tackling and getting out of position have been the bane of these runs.

I'm sorry but you don't know what you are talking about.

The whole "functional strength" thing is complete bull shit. BULL SHIT. How is picking up a heavy bar, and deadlifting not fuctional? How is unracking a heavy bar and pressing it over head not functional.

You can't have power without strength. Work on getting your kids strong, first. Worry about the power clean later, unless you know how to coach it.

Explosiveness is not as trainable as many think. It is more of a genetic trait. At the same time, the power clean requires strength to perform. That strength is developed by squatting and deadlifting. You can more efficiently develop balance those desirable traits with those three lifts than you can by doing shitty powercleaning.

You can train the powerclean all you want, and you're not going to increase the SVJ by much.

And the big thing is that the clean is a highly technical lift. It's not that its hard to learn, but instead it's hard to coach. Most people aren't qualified to teach kids how to properly clean. If I had a dime for every shitty clean performed by highschool and collegiate football players I would be able to buy a nice boat.

The kids are simply better off using their time to learn how to properly squat, deadlilft, and press.

It also says a lot about S&C when people claim their kids are squating 495 when, in fact, they are a good 4 inches above parallel with horrid form.

Man, you must really like Walgreens to make it your avatar...

Oh come on if you're gonna use this one at least use the perfect loop one:

The lifts you suggest are great for a classical body building or power regiment but they are not ideal for functional strength and explosive power. If they are done safely, there is nothing wrong with them.

I would absolutely count it. And form tends to be poor on a one rep max. That's what he has three spotters. The functional depth he went was more than enough to prove he's been working and will still work and that's the point behind that clip. He's a junior in high school for HOAT's sake cut him a smidgeon of slack.

Then it's a good thing he is coming to college where he can learn to do it right. I mean seriously 2 people one here more worried about how he is lifting weights as opposed to happy for the kid to get to come to VT and play some football.