Strength Training at West Point - Coaching Success - #574

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Matt talks to Greg Hess, who is implementing simple, hard, effective strength training at West Point.

Strength Training at West Point: Simple, Hard, Effective

Greg Hess is an instructor and athletic trainer at West Point. In this role, he has a host of responsibilities, including immediate treatment of injuries, overseeing mandatory physical training of all cadets during their cadet basic training, and leading an elective course on compound barbell lifts.

Really, what he is doing, in his roles, is trying to spread the benefits of simple, hard, effective training.

During basic training, he exposes cades to the deadlift and bench press, despite the limited time.

In his elective, however, he has more time to instruct technique on the four main lifts, along with the power clean and power snatch. Cadets also learn how to coach other cadets.

This is a good thing. Cadets at the United States Military Academy (West Point) are being exposed to simple, hard, effective strength training.

Learn about something exciting that is going on at West Point.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Barbell Logic. The podcast where we talk about what it means to
0:08.4	experience strength and how you can use simple, hard and effective strategies in training and nutrition to improve your life.
0:17.0	It starts with meeting you where you are right now and finding lasting solutions.
0:22.0	Welcome to the show. You're listening to the Barbelogit Podcast. I'm your host Matt Reynolds.
0:37.8	This is another episode of the Coaching Success series. Today I've got a very special guest.
0:42.2	I've got a very special guest. I've to become a friend of mine over the last year.
0:45.0	He has a very similar family tree as us, lots of co-friends and mentors, and he is an assistant professor at West Point,
0:54.7	Greg Hess, he's also an athletic trainer,
0:57.3	strength coach, and really probably
0:58.9	the biggest strength evangelist at West Point.
1:01.6	And so, hey man, welcome the show show I appreciate it. Thank you for the opportunity
1:04.9	looking forward to conversation yeah excited to have you on and Dan Shell and I most of our
1:10.6	listeners know who he is we went to kind of a holistic fitness health
1:15.7	event a few months ago and you were speaking and you were speaking on strength and
1:20.0	I had no idea and then you got up and in your presentation you talked about Jonathan Sullivan and the blue book and all this and I was like who is this guy right right by the way for those you most of you were listening to this like Greg is Uber jacked, looks the part, talks the part, had a great
1:34.8	presentation and Dan and I were like we got to get this guy on the podcast and just talk about
1:39.1	what he's doing with strength at West Point. And so you know we've talked about for years and I'll say this so you don't have to you you are a civilian so
1:47.4	which is good so we've talked for years about the need for strength for the war fighter and you are actually able to implement
1:56.0	some of that with some of these West Point cadets or a lot of these West Point cadets.
1:59.8	So I want to start first to kind of establish some of your background.
2:04.0	Sure. What is your background in strength training in again? I know you're an athletic trainer.
2:08.8	Right.
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