Successful Strength Training for High School Athletes w/ Coach Blayne Lapan, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Coach Travis Mash - Barbell Shrugged #551
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Coach Blayne Lapan Graduated from Springfield College in 2012 with a B.S. in Applied Exercise Science and a concentration is Strength and Conditioning. After graduation he spent some time working as a Physical Therapy Aide as well as training athletes in the private sector at Conca Sport and Fitness in West Springfield Ma. In the fall of 2013 Coach Lapan accepted the newly developed position of Assistant Strength and Conditioning coach at the Williston Northampton School, where he along with one of his mentors, Justin Geyer started the strength and conditioning program from the ground up. In the winter of 2013-2014, Coach Lapan accepted the role as the new head of strength and conditioning at the Williston Northampton School, where he continued to build upon the framework of the program into what it is today.
In his 8 years at Williston coach Lapan has had the opportunity of training many stand out student athletes. Including 6 future professional athletes across a multitude of different sports, over 120 division 1 and division 2 scholarship athletes, and countless Division 3 athletes. He has been apart of a program at Williston where, on average, 20% of its senior class will go on to play college athletics. This is well above the national average of 7% of high school seniors who will move on to play at the next level.
Coach Lapan uses an evidence-based approach to train his athletes a primary goal of injury prevention. Simultaneously he works to improve the strength, power, and movement quality of his athletes to help them improve athletically and ultimately reach their goals on the playing surface.
Coach Lapan takes pride in the fact that he coaches the “whole athlete”. He realizes that strength and conditioning as well as athletics is an excellent vessel for teaching kids about the challenges that life will bring him. He strives to teach his athletes the power of commitment, work ethic, leadership and health and fitness. He realizes that everyone, regardless of there skill level, will have a life after athletics and the life lessons learned under the barbell can be indelible for a developing athlete.
In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:
- In season training to keep athletes strong and healthy.
- Off season training and how it differs from in season
- How to get full teams through a program with limited space and equipment
- Why the weight room is the best place to build good humans
- Overcoming barriers with women in the weight room
- Injury prevention and keeping athletes strong and healthy
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Coach Travis Mash on Instagram
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Barbarale Shrugged, Coach Blaine Lappin, from my alma mater, the |
| 0:06.3 | Williston North Hampton School is dropping in to the podcast. This is insanely |
| 0:11.2 | cool for me because when I was at the high school, we did not have a strength |
| 0:16.4 | coach on staff. And as I talk about in this podcast, I think it ended up costing |
| 0:21.9 | us the doing on champion chips was at the time like the most important thing to |
| 0:25.7 | me in my entire life and winning another hockey game. But it also is really cool. We |
| 0:30.3 | could dig into a lot of my past as an athlete. Some of the real cool successes that |
| 0:34.8 | we have, our team's like still on the record books for really cool stuff. Not only |
| 0:40.8 | that, we get to learn how to build a high school strength conditioning program, |
| 0:44.4 | which is really, really important for many people that are listening to this show |
| 0:48.2 | because you either have kids or you know kids that are interested in getting |
| 0:55.8 | stronger, improving its sports and Coach Blaine does a great job laying out what |
| 1:00.5 | his program looks like and how he builds athletes at the Williston North |
| 1:06.4 | Hampton School. Very, very cool. It's an honor to have Coach Blaine on the |
| 1:11.1 | show just because it's my alma mater and I feel incredibly lucky that we are |
| 1:15.5 | able to connect and it just now I have ties at the school again and it makes me |
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