#359 Freak Athlete Stories & The “Personal” Side of Training w/ NY Giants S&C Coach Craig Fitzgerald

Joe DeFranco's Industrial Strength Show

Joe DeFranco

Fitness, Muscle, Health, Sports, Health & Fitness, Lifting, Bodybuilding, Strength

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🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

This week Joe is joined by the NY Giants Director of Strength & Performance - Craig Fitzgerald. Highlights from this conversation include: The difference between working with pro athletes vs college athletes; Coaching [Industrial Strength Show alum’s] Brian Cushing & Sean Hayes; Relationship building; Fitz’s philosophy on coaching freak athletes [“Do no harm” vs treating them like everyone else]; Freak athlete stories; The most important characteristic(s) needed to become a successful coach…and More! *For a full list of Show Notes & Timestamps visit www.IndustrtialStrengthShow.com

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Brian Cushing (@brian56cushing)
Sean Hayes (@fla_hayes)
Vernon Davis (@vernondavis85)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to episode number 359 of the industrial strength show. I know a lot of you are probably
0:07.5	a bit surprised to be hearing my voice this week after
0:11.9	If you listened to last week's show you heard me
0:15.0	mentioned that there was a pretty good possibility that there wouldn't be a podcast this week
0:22.6	Just because when I looked through my calendar and saw how
0:27.2	How overbooked I totally overbooked myself this week and and I was just looking through the week thinking like I don't have any
0:37.2	Spot any place where I have a block of time to record the podcast
0:43.0	So I'm just gonna have to take the week off from the podcast, but
0:50.6	clearly here we are and and you have today's guest really to thank for that
0:56.4	I cannot take any of the credit all the credit goes to my man
1:02.3	Coach fits Craig Fitzgerald the director of strength and performance for the New York football Giants
1:10.4	stepped up
1:11.6	saved the day and now you guys will get to listen to a conversation with an NFL strength coach as opposed to
1:20.4	Having nothing this week. So I really truly appreciate that
1:26.8	Shout out to Fitz for coming on today's show and so just a quick little backstory if if some of you are wondering how this came about
1:37.8	One of the many things I had scheduled for this week was
1:42.6	a meeting with Fitz and Drew Wilson who is a
1:48.3	An assistant strength coach with the New York Giants on the on the Giants staff as well
1:53.6	They asked if they could stop by my private gym in East Rutherford and
1:59.7	Talk training talk programming
2:02.6	They asked if they could pick my brain a bit with regards to some of the things that they had planned for their players
2:10.2	Who are coming back in April?
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