The Origins of Combat Strength Training (CST)
The University of Badassery Podcast
C. J. Ortiz & Pat McNamara
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🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Combat Strength Training began during my days of helping to organize the right kind of training—and training facilities—for my fellow special operations professionals, and it grew from there once I left the military.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast clip is taken from the weekly live stream in the Pat Mac Keep the Blaze Alive Coaching Squad. |
| 0:06.0 | I've always meant to ask you this. Talk to me about speed and quickness. Okay, why, how do you differentiate, first of all, those two words? |
| 0:17.0 | Well, right. So it is very simple, me, you know, I'm going to explain it in the most simple way whatsoever. Speed one direction, quickness, multiple directions. So, you know, speed, plain old speed would be like doing a sprint. Right. You know, doing your sprints. It could be uh jumping rope right uh it could be working |
| 0:40.1 | on the focus bag just boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom |
| 0:43.2 | boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom or changing directions right |
| 0:49.6 | you know that fast changing directions lateral move like when i I do the karaoke's with the, you know, |
| 0:56.5 | where your legs are going in different directions. |
| 0:59.2 | Right. |
| 0:59.5 | And I have the band, the resistance band out there. |
| 1:02.2 | That'd be a quickness because I'm sprinting out, stopping, and slow back. |
| 1:06.8 | Okay. |
| 1:07.6 | So, yeah, easiest way to explain it is speed one direction, quickness, multiple directions. |
| 1:12.4 | So like agility, similar, you know, it's synonymous. |
| 1:19.3 | Well, you would have to be agile, right? |
| 1:23.7 | So that's sort of the default. |
| 1:25.9 | We're focusing on the rate and or speed at which you are |
| 1:30.5 | moving. Yep. |
| 1:33.3 | You know. Now, where did that come from? Like, I can understand, you know, you worked with |
| 1:39.8 | collegiate strength trainers in the past. I'm sure they're not known for their speed and quickness. |
| 1:46.0 | Right. |
| 1:47.0 | So how did speed and quickness actually become a part of CST? |
| 1:51.0 | NASM, National Academy of Sports Medicine. |
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