Podcast appearances and mentions of cameron josse

Cameron Josse is an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach for football at Auburn University. Before joining the Auburn Tigers, Cameron served as an Athletic Performance Coach for football at Indiana University. And his journey in sports performance began with a 7-year stint at DeFranco's Training Systems, where he held the position of Director of Sports […] The post Cameron Josse on Sprint Training, Neural Outputs, and Football Specific-Speed appeared first on Robertson Training Systems.

Today's podcast features Cameron Josse, Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at Auburn University. With experience at Indiana University Football and DeFranco's Training Systems, Cameron has worked with athletes from various levels and sports like NFL, NHL, UFC, and WWE. A former football player at the University of Rhode Island and current PhD candidate at Jean Monnet University, Cameron's approach to performance training is both practical and comprehensive. As we move forward in sports performance training, there is more data around speed training for athletes than ever, as well as corresponding logistics and systems. We are understanding that physical preparation is not a one-sized fits all approach, not only between sports, as well as within positions in a single sport. By better understanding key aspects of speed development on an individual level, as well as in knowing the evolving role of strength training over time, we can better serve the needs of the individual athlete. On today's episode, Cameron will cover the process of optimizing resisted sprint protocols in college football athletes, as well as important individual differences he sees between positions and maximal speed ability. We will cover strength training in light of long term athlete speed and power development, sprint biomechanics and injury prevention, as well as concepts of integration between strength and sport skill staffs. Cameron is a brilliant coach with an expansive view of the training process. This conversation is a valuable addition for anyone interested in long term development of speed and athleticism. Today's episode is brought to you by TeamBuildr, the Plyomat, and LILA Exogen. Use the code “justfly25” for 25% off of any Lila Exogen wearable resistance training, including the popular Exogen Calf Sleeves. For this offer head to Lilateam.com TeamBuildr is an online software for coaches and trainers. Use the code “JUSTFLY” for a free 30 day trial of the TeamBuildr software at https://teambuildr.com. The Plyomat is a functional, intuitive, and affordable contact mat for jump and plyometric training and testing.  Check out the Plyomat at www.plyomat.net View more podcast episodes at the podcast homepage. Main Points 4:08- Optimizing Power Output Through Velocity Variation 11:27- Position-Specific Biomechanics in American Football Players 19:31- Position-Specific Force-Velocity Profiles in Sprint Performance 27:50- Enhancing Sprint Training in Team Sport 31:08- Neural Efficiency in Skill Player Performance 36:20- Neural Processes in Sports Performance Optimization 42:30- Optimal Pelvic Alignment for Efficient Running 47:53- Enhancing Movement Quality Through Motor Techniques 57:47- Optimizing Performance by Removing Physical Constraints 1:07:06- Optimizing Training Programs for Athlete Profiles 1:15:02- Explosive Velocity Training for Muscle Hypertrophy 1:17:14- Optimizing Athlete Performance through Strategic Training 1:20:52- Sprinting's Impact on Weight Room Training Integration 1:25:49- Collaborative Communication for Athletic Development Success Cameron Josse Quotes "It's like you're not going to get a ton of return on it if you just keep chasing (gym strength) forever and ever and ever. It seems like there's a certain point where enough is enough, right?" - Cameron Josse" What we're finding is that the, like, the step velocity itself, like how fast the leg moves through the push phase, is really, really important for the bigs. It seems like it. There's a big correlation to performance for those guys, but it's not really. It doesn't seem to be as big of an important factor for the skill guys. Cameron Josse The bigs are so big, they have less opportunity to compensate to a certain degree. Yeah, like, they. It's like, I got to get this big body moving, and, like, we all kind of need to self organize to do this better or else we're not going to move, you know.

This week former DeFranco's Gym client & coach Cameron Josse returns to the podcast! This is Cameron's first Industrial Strength Show appearance since leaving DeFranco's and becoming a collegiate strength & conditioning coach. Cam spent the last two football seasons at Indiana University and is currently the assistant strength coach at Auburn University. On today's episode you'll hear Cameron & Joe's first conversation since Cam's arrival at Auburn. Specific topics of discussion include: Cam's transition from the private sector to becoming a college S&C coach; Has the "NIL" changed college culture & player work ethic; Auburn football off-season workout/template; How the Auburn S&C staff currently programs sled training into their workouts; Using hill training to increase speed & power [while sparing the joints]; Cam shares some new/innovative speed training protocols currently being used at Auburn...and much Much MORE! *For a full list of Show Notes + Timestamps goto www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com. IMPORTANT LINKS CPPS certification [Use code: JOED20] DeFranco's Nutritional Supplements [Use code: MuscleUpMarch] Cameron Josse (@CoachJosse) EP 209 - Developing Strong, Fast, Resilient NFL Players w/ NY Giants Strength Coach Aaron Wellman RHONE [Use code: JOED]

This week former DeFranco's Gym client & coach Cameron Josse returns to the podcast! This is Cameron's first Industrial Strength Show appearance since leaving DeFranco's and becoming a collegiate strength & conditioning coach. Cam spent the last two football seasons at Indiana University and is currently the assistant strength coach at Auburn University. On today's episode you'll hear Cameron & Joe's first conversation since Cam's arrival at Auburn. Specific topics of discussion include: Cam's transition from the private sector to becoming a college S&C coach; Has the "NIL" changed college culture & player work ethic; Auburn football off-season workout/template; How the Auburn S&C staff currently programs sled training into their workouts; Using hill training to increase speed & power [while sparing the joints]; Cam shares some new/innovative speed training protocols currently being used at Auburn...and much Much MORE! *For a full list of Show Notes + Timestamps goto www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com. IMPORTANT LINKS CPPS certification [Use code: JOED20] DeFranco's Nutritional Supplements [Use code: MuscleUpMarch] Cameron Josse (@CoachJosse) EP 209 - Developing Strong, Fast, Resilient NFL Players w/ NY Giants Strength Coach Aaron Wellman RHONE [Use code: JOED]

This episodes guest is Cameron Josse.  Cam is currently in his second season as an athletic performance coach with the football program at Indiana University Bloomington.  Cams bio: • Owns seven years of experience preparing and managing multiple levels of athletes. • Trained over 40 professional athletes, including NFL, NHL, UFC and WWE talents. • Came to IU from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he served as associate director of football performance. • Spent eight years working with DeFranco’s Training Systems (2013-14), DeFranco’s Gym at the Onnit Academy (2014-16) and DeFranco’s Training & Consulting (2016-20).  • Earned his bachelor of science in kinesiology from the University of Rhode Island and his master’s degree in exercise science from William Patterson University. • Played defensive back at Rhode Island from 2010-13. • Holds CSCS, CPR/AED, CPPS and FRCms certifications. On this episode Cam and I discuss: Cam's transition from the private to the collegiate sector I asked Cam how he and his partner have dealt with moving to several different states over the past few years I ask Cam to give the listeners some background on Football at University I ask Cam how they have dealt with physical preparation of their players during Covid-19 I ask Cam about the biggest difference between the private and team setting? I ask Cam about speed development for team sport athletes I ask Cam what is he reading? I ask Cam - how does he learn? This was an outstanding episode and I hope you all enjoy it as much as we did! Stay Strong, RB   Show Notes: Twitter - @IUCoachJosse   Books Mentioned: The Process - Level 1 The Process - Level 2   Podcasts Mentioned: ATSW: Episode 205: Shawn Myszka (aka - The Movement Miyagi) - All things skill acquisition and movement mastery OPEX Podcast - Shawn Myszka Ep 9 OPEX Podcast - Shawn Myszka - Ep 96   People and Resources Mentioned: Joe DeFranco Aaron Wellman ALTIS Stu McMillan  Indiana Football Chris Laskowski Bobby Knight Tom Allen Justin Collett Pete Remmes Chris Allen 2021 Indiana Coaching Football Staff ALTIS - Need for Speed course Mike Guadango Buddy Morris James Smith  Charlie Francis Dan Pfaff JB Morin Ken Clarke Shawn Myszki Fergus Connolly Nick Ward  Cynefin Framework

Today’s show features Cal Dietz.  Cal has been the Head Olympic Strength and Conditioning coach for numerous sports at the University of Minnesota since 2000, has worked with hundreds of successful athletes and team, and is the co-author of the top-selling book “Triphasic Training”.  Cal has a multi-time guest on this show, most recently appearing in episode #168 (one of our most popular episodes of all time) on single leg training methods alongside Cameron Josse and Chad Dennis. Cal’s ideas on complex training (French contrast and potentiation clusters) have made a huge impact on the formulation of my own programs and methods.   French Contrast as a training ideology and method has probably been one of the most consistent elements of my training for many years now.  Cal is never one to sit still, and has recently made further advances in his complex training sets as they relate to our neurological and technical adaptations to these movements. On today’s show, Cal talks extensively about his new methods in complex training for improving sprint speed.  As Cal has talked about on previous episodes, even bilateral hurdle hops have the potential to “mess athletes up” neurologically, and so Cal goes in detail on how his complex training sets are now adjusted to address that.  Ultimately, Cal has formulated his gym training for the primary purpose of improving sprint speed and sprint mechanics.  We will also get into Cal’s take on block periodization, and how Cal uses 5,10 and 20 yard dash markers to help determine an athlete’s primary training emphasis for the next block of work. Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster. View more podcast episodes at the podcast homepage. Timestamps and Main Points 05:10 – Breaking a lot of eggs to make a cake: Training Cal and Joel has utilized in that past that may not have worked out so well for the athlete in the process of growing as a coach 12:52 – Cal’s experience with various methods of training + How he trained his son during covid-19 19:56 – Using running and speed to assess athletes, and creating the required adaptations 25:53 – What led Cal to utilizing block method training and block overloads 29:51 – Interpreting and discussing maximal velocity as a training lynchpin 31:45 – Using squats + Examples of “sprint-centric” exercise sets Cal uses 41:34 – What Cal’s working on: Optimizing exercises for your athletes as individuals + Exercises that are best for your brain 43:09 – Quad-dominant vs. Posterior chain dominant athlete assessments + Cal’s 5-10-20 tool 50:45 – The 5-10-20 tool simplified 54:00 – Exercises Cal would assign for Joel, as someone who needs isometric strength? + The best single leg exercise for building leg strength “Usually I had a download (de-load) week and then I’d change the exercise. Then, I started changing the exercises in the download week so the volume was low… that matched the following week so they didn’t get sore starting with the higher volume… I found that when I implemented a new exercise, that’s when they got sore.” “I trained an agonistic muscle with an antagonistic muscle… so what happened was, it didn’t cause a compensation pattern and it kept the global neurological sequence of the nervous system in the right pattern the whole time and it optimized it.” “Running is one of the greatest assessments of any athlete.” “I call it global neurological sequence, it’s just the order and sequence your body moves.” “Max velocity is an indicator of potential in the nervous system, let’s be honest.” “I would start my first set with my quad-dominant athletes at the rear posterior chain exercise and then cycle through everything, which is actually better, Joel, for my weight room functioning.” “I was able to create a tool off a 10-20-yard dash that told me what their weakest link was in training. So, it’s an indicator of what they need for the next two to four weeks in training...

This week Joe is joined by Calvin Hartman - Head Strength Coach at DeFranco's Training & Consulting in East Rutherford, NJ. Highlights from their conversation include: How Calvin first met Joe; The backstory behind Calvin's internship and how he ultimately took over for Cameron Josse as Head Strength Coach at DeFranco's; The thing Calvin did for Joe that "won him over forever"; The traits that Joe looks for in a trainer/person; What was Calvin's impression of Joe before meeting him vs after meeting him; Who is Calvin's least favorite person to train at DeFranco's?; How does Calvin organize the training week for his high school & college football clients?; Why does Joe place such an emphasis on the "shopping cart thing"... and Much MORE!!   *For Show Notes & Timestamps goto www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com

This week Joe is joined by Calvin Hartman - Head Strength Coach at DeFranco's Training & Consulting in East Rutherford, NJ. Highlights from their conversation include: How Calvin first met Joe; The backstory behind Calvin's internship and how he ultimately took over for Cameron Josse as Head Strength Coach at DeFranco's; The thing Calvin did for Joe that "won him over forever"; The traits that Joe looks for in a trainer/person; What was Calvin's impression of Joe before meeting him vs after meeting him; Who is Calvin's least favorite person to train at DeFranco's?; How does Calvin organize the training week for his high school & college football clients?; Why does Joe place such an emphasis on the "shopping cart thing"... and Much MORE!!   *For Show Notes & Timestamps goto www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com

Today’s podcast features speed and strength coach Brandon Byrd.  Brandon Byrd is the owner of Byrd’s Sports Performance in Orefield, Pennsylvania.  Brandon is an alumni of the University of Pittsburgh and has learned from elite coaches such as Louie Simmons, Charlie Francis, Buddy Morris and others. Brandon’s unique blend of rotating training stimuli, and his competitive, PR driven environment has elicited noteworthy speed, power and strength gains in his athletes. If you follow Brandon on social media, you’ll see the regular occurrence of sprint and jump records from his athletes.  Brandon has some of the highest-output training out there in his ability to cultivate speed and strength. I always enjoy digging into the training of elite coaches, into the nuts and bolts that drives their systems.  Some of the running themes on this show have been ideas such as the rotation of big training stimuli from week to week (such as in EP 190 with Grant Fowler), the power of resisted sprinting (EP 12 and 63 with JB Morin and Cameron Josse), overspeed sprinting (EP 51 with Chris Korfist), and then the power of competition and PR’s (EP 135 with Tony Holler). This episode with coach Brandon Byrd truly brings all of those elements together in a way that gets some of the best training results you’ll find.  On today’s podcast, Brandon goes into the core of his system, and how he rotates his sprint efforts based on the needs of the athlete, to get the most out of their system.  He also goes into his background with Westside Barbell, and the elements he learned from Louie Simmons that go into his training, as well as strength pre-requisites he carries for his athletes to optimize their readiness for the strength and speed program. (Note that when Brandon is talking about fly 10’s he is talking yards, not meters) Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more. View more podcast episodes at the podcast homepage Timestamps and Main Points 5:00 Brandon’s main influences in athletic performance and speed training 11:30 How principles of West-side Barbell training show up in Brandon’s sprint training system 22:45 How Brandon rotates uphill and downhill sprinting to blast personal bests in speed 29:30 How Brandon uses wickets in context of his speed and sprint training 39:30 Concepts in using resisted sprinting, as well as jump training in Brandon’s program 45:20 More specifics on how Brandon rotates and progresses his speed and sprint training throughout the training year, and also how he modulates this for stride length, vs. stride frequency style athletes 58:50 What Brandon’s weekly sprint setup looks like for athletes 1:07.20 The power of “PR”s in Brandon’s system and how that feeds into his entire training session “Once you can control 90% of the force-velocity curve, you can create great athletes” “I don’t think the FMS is a great thing, because when you are sitting statically and not under high forces or high loads, everyone is going to look great, but once you are high speeds in sprinting, or high loads in lifting, you are going to see some weaknesses” “I believe your technique in sprinting is determined by your weaknesses… once you fix their weaknesses, then it is easier to fix technique” “Glute, hamstring, and opposite QL, those must fire explosively and fast, and they all must be strong… when I start an athlete, the first thing I do test is that QL” “In my gym, if you can’t do so much in a 45 degree hyperextension, I can’t put a bar on your back” “The body is scared to go faster… it hates change, so you have to force change by changing modalities… regular sprinting can’t do all those things (in context of using uphill, downhill and resisted sprinting to help break barriers)” “65-75% of the kids I get are heel strikers; they have to run fo...

Cameron Josse is an Athletic Performance Coach for Football at Indiana University. Prior to arriving at Indiana, Cameron spent 7 years in the private sector with DeFranco's Training Systems, operating as Director of Sports Performance from 2014-2020. Cameron has worked with a multitude of athletes in high school and collegiate sports as well as professional athletes in the NFL, NHL, UFC, and WWE. Cameron earned his bachelor's degree in kinesiology while playing football at the University of Rhode Island and holds a master's degree in exercise science from William Paterson University.Links:Twitter: https://twitter.com/iucoachjosseThe Process Bundle: https://uaconcepts.com/product/the-process-bundle/SimpliFaster Articles: https://simplifaster.com/?s=cameron+josseTopics:0:00 - Intro0:29 - Start0:53 - Background5:37 - Team culture12:21 - Player load management16:29 - Testing workout and protocols21:31 - How did you first get interested in speed development?25:01 - How has your thinking changed around this topics since you first started digging into it?29:59 - Qualitative VS quantitative mindset 39:53 - Video analysis for athletes 43:59 - Taking ownership of one’s development47:14 - Quantitative - Speed testing54:49 - Rapid fire questions57:47 - Where can we find you on social?Video interview: https://youtu.be/e4YIdI9m0WU

This episode is with one of the most exciting young coaches who has made a tremendous impact on the private sector and is now leaving his mark with a Division 1 football team. Cameron Josse shares what it is like dealing with larger groups at the college level, how sprinting is so impactful for performance, and so many other knowledgeable aspects of training athletes. Your going love this interview!

In this sixth installment of our Seminar Series exploring the Movement Marvels of American Football, Matt is joined by Cameron Josse (@IUCoachJosse). Cameron is a Football Performance Coach at Indiana University. In addition Cameron is also the co-author of The Process: The Methodology, Philosophy & Principles of Coaching Winning Teams Level I & Level II .In this episode Cameron discuss one of the most exciting movement marvels in the NFL today  - Carolina Panthers Running Back, Christian McCaffrey. To purchase the S2S Premium Notebooks for $9.99 or to read the full descriptions of what is in each notebooks, click here. Sponsors: Scouting Academy Hosts: Matt Caraccio (@matty_S2S) Paul Perdichizzi (@paulie23ny) Editor: David Nakano (@KawikaNakano) Website: Saturday2SundayFootball (@s2sfootball)  

Nugget Of the Day: “ The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where h stands at times of challenge and controversy” This quote leads us into our guest today Connor Mielke. Connor is a Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at Auburn University. Connor was a suggested guest by the powerful Cameron Josse and this was an awesome conversation about mastering the basics and making sure you are taking advantage of the opportunity in the moment! Thank You For Listening Keep Chopping Wood

This quote leads us into our guest today Chris McCormick. Chris is the director of Strength and Conditioning of Olympics at FAU. I heard him give a presentation on “Reflections and Resources as A Coach” that was an awesome overview of how we train athletes and how we should train ourselves as coaches in our whole lives. Very similar to previous guests Cameron Josse's talk on the 4 Co-Active Models and approach to training, Chris seemed to take this a step further and dive into what this means for us as coaches as well and it fits the Jordan Peterson rule for life very well! Keep Chopping Wood

Nugget of the Day: “Make sure you're not made ‘Emperor,' avoid that imperial stain, because it can happen before you know it." This quote leads us into our guest today Cameron Josse. Cameron has multiple accomplishments, is the head of Sports Performance at Defranco's Gym, and is the author of the book "The Process: The Methodology, Philosophy & Principles of Coaching Winning Teams". Cameron's thoughts and challenges of the traditional way of thinking have greatly helped me through the years. I was super pumped about this podcast and hope you enjoy it as much as I do. As always, Keep Chopping Wood.

Today’s episode features Fergus Connolly, renowned expert on team performance success factors and holistic integration and welcomes back coach Cameron Josse, director of sports performance for DeFranco’s Training Systems. When it comes to athletics and sports performance, we tend to start in the world of muscles, forces, tissues and exercise physiology.  What isn’t often covered when working with athletes is the multi-factorial considerations that go into actually winning ball games such as game speed, ball speed, technical abilities, tactics and psychological considerations.  One of my favorite quotes on the industry of strength and conditioning is from Mark Watts, which basically says, “don’t take credit for your teams wins when you won’t take credit for their losses”. Most strength coaches want to be able to play a greater role in what it takes to win a ball game than just getting athletes stronger, since eventually that becomes an end unto itself.  On the flip side, sport coaches having a better knowledge of exactly how strength and fitness (and the specificity of that fitness) fit into gameplay helps the total effort of training athletes become better.  To create a better model that can help all parties working with the athlete work in better cohesion, Fergus and Cameron teamed up to write “The Process”.  which is a follow up to Fergus’s renowned book “Game Changer”, on holistic factors in sport success. Today’s podcast is all about the big picture in what it takes to win games, write great training programs from a team sport perspective, and integrate the goals of the sport coaches with strength training more optimally.  It also draws many parallels between concepts such as “short to long” in track and field and in the technical development of team sport athletes, as well other similarities in building a “base of technique” and working from “little to big”.  Other concepts discussed include the 4 Coactive Model of athletic success, the importance of a unified model of winning factors, trends in a successful training week, and more. Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more.   Key Points Why it is important for a strength and conditioning/sports performance coach to understand a unified model of factors that lead teams to win games The role of fitness and conditioning in a unified model of sports performance, and how “lack of fitness” often takes the fault in a loss Trends in a successful sport practice training week in team sports/field sports with the goal of optimizing all four elements in the 4-Coactive model What a “Morphocycle” training template looks like for team sport training Cameron and Fergus’ take on building game speed and the role of the strength coach How to optimize sport movement and game speed training from a “small” to “big” manner “If we have this game model approach, then we can communicate that to the entire staff” ~Josse “Nobody asks you what your bench is or your squat is when you walk on the field, it’s can you play the game.  If we focus on adding 5 more pounds on a bench or squat, that’s not really solving the problem” ~Connolly “I see a lot of strength coaches nowadays that want to have too much control over the whole process (of game conditioning)” ~Josse “The game is what’s most important so we’re looking at all the layers that go into that preparation process leading into that game, and that’s got to align all four co-activates, and by four co-actives, we’re referring to tactical preparation, technical preparation, psychological preparation and physical preparation” ~Josse “They are starting to understand two key things (the importance of) the alignment and cohesiveness between all the different stakeholders in the team’s operation, and second, the ability to reduce the total amount of work the players ...

Today’s episode features an expert roundtable on an integrative view of single and double leg (unilateral and bilateral) training.  Experts include Cal Dietz, author of Triphasic Training and University of Minnesota strength coach, Cameron Josse, director of sports performance at DeFranco’s gym (co-author of “The Process”), and Chad Dennis, veteran NCAA and professional level strength coach who is now director of performance for the XFL Seattle Dragons. Single and double leg training is hotly debated in many cases, each method with its own unique aspects, benefits and drawbacks.  In the majority of situations, single leg training is used as a warmup or auxillary while the “big lifts” dominate the landscape of exercise.  Taking a wider view of these training modalities is important when it comes to optimal integration into our own training. On the show today, myself, Cal, Cameron and Chad go over many ideas on this topic, particularly the idea of using single leg training as the primary method in earlier training phases (accumulation, GPP, etc.) and moving towards bilateral dominated training in later training phases (intensification, SPP, etc.). We also take a deep dive into the neurological aspects of barbell (and jump) training, as the ramifications of movements with many, vs. few degrees of freedom (i.e. a walking rotational lunge vs. a heavy quarter squat).   This episode is rounded out by a chat on unilateral jumping progressions and using dynamic work to prepare tissues for the rigors of high intensity training and in-season play. Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more. Key Points A thesis summary of building a foundation of single leg training and then filtering into double leg training Different approaches to periodization and planning in regards to single and double leg training Neurological Ramifications of unilateral vs. bilateral training via threat response Approaches to jump training periodization looking at single and double leg periodization A discussion on using unilateral work in the weightroom, and on field (jumps and sprints) to prepare tissues of the body for the season Quotes from Cal Dietz, Cameron Josse and Chad Dennis “I’m looking at a  progression where we start with a foundation of coordination (single leg/more degrees of freedom) and we transfer that into really high outputs (bilateral training)” ~Cam Josse “Unilateral work favors the cross crawl concept” ~Dietz “I’m not a big fan of single leg squat with dumbbells, because I don’t feel there is enough stress, in my opinion” ~Dietz “In the bilateral (lifting and even plyometric), I didn’t get a good neural feedback loop” ~Dietz “I haven’t found one of my athletes that didn’t go into threat with a double leg, or get better (neurological) responses from a split squat stance” ~Dietz “How do I fix that threat? I just have them march.  If they do a hurdle hop, the next four steps are marching steps, and that takes them out of that threat as they go to the next exercise” ~Dietz “There was a great tissue resiliency built from doing (single leg rudiment hops, filtering into bounding over time, as well as a unilateral to bilateral progression in the weightroom) from the joints, especially in the lower leg” ~Dennis “It makes a lot of sense to use unilateral training in the early during these early periods in the training year, it could be 6-8 weeks, it could be 4 weeks really.  I’m thinking field first, weightroom second” ~Josse “If you are in the weightroom, it’s naturally multi-planar, just because you are on one leg more degree of freedom are involved” ~Josse “If we are concentrating speed and power on the field, how do we support that in the weightroom? Bilateral activities” ~Josse “While we are emphasizing force and accumulation,

This week Joe sits down w/ Cameron Josse and the Head Performance Coach of XFL's Seattle team - Chad Dennis. Highlights from their conversation include: The difference between the "sport science" and "strength & conditioning" staff at the professional level; How to effectively use GPS data to improve training/programming; If Chad could use only 1 piece of technology to improve health/performance what would it be; The power of communication; The link between health & performance; The importance of "speaking your clients language"; Chad's [unusual] training philosophy; The bare essentials that every weight room needs; One of the biggest mistakes young gym owners make when equipping their gym; The greatest thing that Cameron has learned from working with Joe; The importance of context; Chad's new role as Head Performance Coach of the XFL's Seattle team...and much more! For Show Notes & Timestamps goto www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com  

This week Joe sits down w/ Cameron Josse and the Head Performance Coach of XFL's Seattle team - Chad Dennis. Highlights from their conversation include: The difference between the "sport science" and "strength & conditioning" staff at the professional level; How to effectively use GPS data to improve training/programming; If Chad could use only 1 piece of technology to improve health/performance what would it be; The power of communication; The link between health & performance; The importance of "speaking your clients language"; Chad's [unusual] training philosophy; The bare essentials that every weight room needs; One of the biggest mistakes young gym owners make when equipping their gym; The greatest thing that Cameron has learned from working with Joe; The importance of context; Chad's new role as Head Performance Coach of the XFL's Seattle team...and much more! For Show Notes & Timestamps goto www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com  

In this fourth installment of our Seminar Series exploring the Player Problem-Solver Paradigm, Matt is joined by the Director of Sports Performance at DeFranco's Gym Cameron Josse. In this episode we discuss the tactical, technical, physical and psychological components of the problems players face on the field of play. To purchase the S2S Premium Notebooks for $9.99 or to read the full descriptions of what is in each notebooks, click here. Sponsors: Scouting Academy Hosts: Matt Caraccio (@matty_S2S) Paul Perdichizzi (@paulie23ny) Editor: David Nakano (@KawikaNakano) Website: Saturday2SundayFootball (@s2sfootball)  

This week's show gets off to a rough start as Joe shares his recent cell phone (Sprint) problems with Cameron. This leads to a brief discussion about customer service, giving 100% at work...and pumping your own gas?!? After Joe's rant is out of the way, he and Cam get down to business! Together, they discuss how they can improve the out-dated, flawed football conditioning tests that have been around throughout their lifetime, i.e., half-gassers, 16 110's and the 300-yard shuttle. During this episode, you will get to be a "fly on the wall" as Joe & Cam discuss the latest research, time-motion analysis and their personal experiences training thousands of football players. By the end of the show they create new, easy-to-apply, position-specific football conditioning tests that coaches and trainers around the world can now implement!!   For Show Notes & Timestamps goto www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com

This week's show gets off to a rough start as Joe shares his recent cell phone (Sprint) problems with Cameron. This leads to a brief discussion about customer service, giving 100% at work...and pumping your own gas?!? After Joe's rant is out of the way, he and Cam get down to business! Together, they discuss how they can improve the out-dated, flawed football conditioning tests that have been around throughout their lifetime, i.e., half-gassers, 16 110's and the 300-yard shuttle. During this episode, you will get to be a "fly on the wall" as Joe & Cam discuss the latest research, time-motion analysis and their personal experiences training thousands of football players. By the end of the show they create new, easy-to-apply, position-specific football conditioning tests that coaches and trainers around the world can now implement!!   For Show Notes & Timestamps goto www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com

Joe kicks off this historic episode by thanking his audience and announcing the details of his "200th episode contest/giveaway!" After the intro, Cameron Josse joins Joe and together they discuss some of the most polarizing topics in the industry. These topics include: Unstable Training; Improving on-field agility; Youth development & sports specialization; "Internet experts"...and Much MORE!   For Show Notes & Timestamps visit www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com

Joe kicks off this historic episode by thanking his audience and announcing the details of his "200th episode contest/giveaway!" After the intro, Cameron Josse joins Joe and together they discuss some of the most polarizing topics in the industry. These topics include: Unstable Training; Improving on-field agility; Youth development & sports specialization; "Internet experts"...and Much MORE!   For Show Notes & Timestamps visit www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com

Seven months ago, Cameron Josse abruptly deleted all of his social media, replaced his smart phone with a flip phone, and virtually "disappeared". On this week's podcast, he breaks his silence and explains exactly WHY he decided to vanish from social media, how it's affected his personal & professional life, and what he's up to now. The second half of the show is dedicated to training. More specifically, Cam shares the new weekly template that he's using with his elite athletes.    For Show Notes & Timestamps goto www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com

Seven months ago, Cameron Josse abruptly deleted all of his social media, replaced his smart phone with a flip phone, and virtually "disappeared". On this week's podcast, he breaks his silence and explains exactly WHY he decided to vanish from social media, how it's affected his personal & professional life, and what he's up to now. The second half of the show is dedicated to training. More specifically, Cam shares the new weekly template that he's using with his elite athletes.    For Show Notes & Timestamps goto www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com

Highlights of Episode 225   The TrainHeroic "Hit The Gym with a Strength Coach" Segment Cameron Josse (Director of Sports Performance for Defranco's Training Systems) is on to talk about speed, speed, speed. We talked about: An overview of Horizontal and Vertical forces in Sprinting Expands on the Heavy Sled Research and Determining the Load of Maximum Power in Resisted Sprinting His article The Truth About Athlete Speed in the NFL His article Fast off the Ball: Revisiting Heavy Resisted Sprinting for American Football The use of organized play-type drills to enhance agility and decision-making How he organizes his weekly layout to include more exposure to speed and acceleration Testing speed through use of flying sprints as a better option than 40-yard dashes   Thanks to TrainHeroic for sponsoring the Hit the Gym with a Strength Coach Segment Click here to start your Free 14 Day Trial. If you decide you love it, tell them Anthony sent you and you will get 25% off the Pro Edition!   The Coaches Corner with Coach Boyle We talked about: His article "Power Cubed" The experiments he's been doing with power Where he is with his power development now     The Business of Fitness with Results Fitness University Alwyn Cosgrove discusses "Avoiding Burnout"     The Functional Movement Systems Segment Gray Cook discusses "Pain in Movement" Click here for a link to the TED Talk Gray spoke about     NEW SEGMENT! The Super Human Strength Segment Dom Mazzone is on to discuss "The final word on the difference between Whey Isolate, Whey Concentrate and Whey Blend" Use the code "strengthcoach" to save 10% off your first order  

The first half of this week's show is dedicated to unilateral training. Cameron Josse discusses why he's added more unilateral work into his athlete's programs, how his current template differs from the "original" DeFranco's template, and the benefits of max-effort unilateral exercises. Joe also shares some lesser-known benefits of unilateral training for the "over 40" crowd. The second half of the show is dedicated to "micro-dosing" and how both Cameron and Joe have recently experienced better gains from doing LESS.  For Show Notes & Timestamps go to www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com

The first half of this week's show is dedicated to unilateral training. Cameron Josse discusses why he's added more unilateral work into his athlete's programs, how his current template differs from the "original" DeFranco's template, and the benefits of max-effort unilateral exercises. Joe also shares some lesser-known benefits of unilateral training for the "over 40" crowd. The second half of the show is dedicated to "micro-dosing" and how both Cameron and Joe have recently experienced better gains from doing LESS.  For Show Notes & Timestamps go to www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com

Today’s guest is Justin Moore, performance education coordinater at Parabolic Performance & Rehabilitation.  We’ve had some prodigious young coaches on this show, such as Matt Van Dyke, Cameron Josse, and Max Schmarzo, and Justin is no exception to that rule. I first came across Justin’s work on Darkside Strength, and it has been one of my top resources this past year in terms of applying Postural Restoration (PRI) Institute principles into my strength and conditioning practice.  For those not familiar with PRI, it is a way of looking at the body from a standpoint of respiration, and its impact on joint position. I’ve found over the years that athletes who tend to thrive more, as they gain weight room strength, in terms of their performance in track, or swimming, are those who have alignments that are closer to optimal.  Athletes who have poor position of the thorax will generally hit glass ceilings of their sport performance, or even go backwards when heavily loaded over time. In my mind, those coaches that are integrating PRI into strength and conditioning based practice are pushing the industry forward in a big way, and can help all of us give our athletes the positioning, and subsequent training they need to reach their highest level, and prevent injury in the process.  Today on the podcast, Justin shares his knowledge on PRI principles, cueing strategies, squat and deadlift sequencing, the role of the hamstrings in lifting, and much more. Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more. Key Points: Justin’s background as an athlete and coach, as well as his mentors in the field How PRI principles have had an impact on Justin’s coaching, alignment and posture of the axial skeleton, length-tensioning of muscle, tri-planar movement, respiration and variability Utilization of PRI and movement based system and internal vs. external cueing Deadlift sequencing based on PRI principles Squat sequencing based on PRI principles The role of the hamstrings in an athletic squat Bands and their use in creating external rotation in squatting Quotes “PRI has given me a lens by which to view all movement with a more discerning eye” “The cranium, the ribcage, the pelvis and the spine; they set the foundation by which I can express strength through the appendicular skeleton” “A lot of times, we get caught up looking at the motion of limbs without appreciation for the foundation for them” “A muscle is going to contract and produce force optimally at its resting length” “Everything we do comes back to gait” “Variability is having options, more of it is not necessarily better, if we are talking about a powerlifter of a 100m sprinter, those people should not have a ton of variability” “If you are unable to manage the sagittal plane, your variability is going to be limited” “A deadlift should be a lower body exercise, it should be a trunk stability exercise with range of motion through the limbs and through the lower body, and strength and power being developed in the pushing muscles of our lower body” “Think of knees going forward as limbs reaching” “If my squat ends up looking exactly like the torso position of my deadlift, then I really don’t consider that a squat” “(in a squat) There is no initiation of hips first, or knees first, they both go at the same time” “If I keep active abs and I keep active, eccentriccaly lengthening hamstrings, in a squat, then I have a chance to get my pelvic floor under my rib cage, and I have a chance to drive it up with my hamstrings, glutes and quads, rather than just my back and quads” “External rotation is going to be coupled with extension and abduction” “We need internal rotation of the hip to squat’ “Internal rotation and valgus are not the same” About Justin Moore

Cameron Josse is the Director of Sports Performance for DeFranco’s Training Systems in East Rutherford, NJ. He has been working with DeFranco’s Training Systems since 2013 and has quickly built up a resume working with a multitude of athletes in high school and collegiate sports, as well as professional athletes in the NFL, NHL, UFC, […] The post Cam Josse on Building a Blazing Fast 10 appeared first on Robertson Training Systems.

Today's guest is Cameron Josse!  Cameron Josse is the Director of Sports Performance at DeFranco’s Gym at the Onnit Academy. He has worked with DeFranco’s Gym owner Joe DeFranco since he was 17 years old. As a former athlete in DeFranco’s training programs, Cameron was exposed to Joe’s unique approach to developing all the tools needed to succeed in athletics, eventually landing him on staff at DeFranco’s Gym. Cameron has worked with a wide variety of athletes, from youth all the way up to professional. He uses his experience as a former high school and collegiate athlete to enable him to connect with the athletes he deals with on a daily basis. Coupling all of the core principles of DeFranco’s Gym in addition to the unconventional training methods found at Onnit, Cameron aims to create fully optimized athletes that dominate on the field of play.

Today’s guest is Cameron Josse, Director of Sports Performance at DeFranco’s Gym, back for his second appearance on the Just Fly Performance podcast, and this time we’re talking about his results, experiences and lessons learned from heavy sled training, as well as a multitude of other topics on speed training for football players, or anyone else whose sport demands fast accelerative abilities. In our first show together, Cameron highlighted use of the 1080 sprint to create a very specific force based overload to an athletes acceleration ability (as well as general protocols for the speed and velocity range a heavy sled should land an athlete).   This show tied together many facets of Cameron’s speed building ideology, along with some of the directions that he has taken Joe DeFranco’s legendary training templates.  This is a fantastic episode for anyone interested in speed, or who trains team sport competitors. In this episode, we’ll be covering Cameron’s lessons from his heavy-resisted sled training cycles, special strength for speed, top exercises for speed specific to acceleration with technical considerations of common football sprint patterning, lifting progressions from high school to college and the pro’s, and more. Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more. Key Points: Cameron’s summary of the rationale of heavy sled training, as well as his lessons learned from completing a training phase with a heavy sled component Motor learning ideals in terms of letting athletes figure out movement vs. when to coach What Cameron would change in his next heavy sled training group Special strength exercises for improving sprint mechanics Cameron’s top exercises for improving football specific speed Progressions from single leg lifting, to bilateral, and single leg lifting in the professional ranks Quotes “Heavy sleds expose an athlete to the max power environment (in an acceleration) for a little longer” “JB Morin and Matt Cross specifically say (heavy sleds) is not speed training, but rather strength training that is very specific to the sprinting motion” “Heavy sleds gives them more chances to be conscious of their issues and try to self-correct them in that (training) environment” “When my players do med-ball-knee-punch-runs, they all get great frontside mechanics” “I’ve found a flying 10 is less stressful psychologically and physically than running a 40 yard sprint (for combine guys)” “I’ve seen a lot of guys improve their max velocity by just learning how to run upright” “One of my favorite exercises for acceleration specific force is power skips for distance… they see real quick if they don’t have that propulsive ability to launch themselves through a nice launch-point” “Football players are able to reach 96-98% of their maximal velocity by the 20 yard mark” “What I do when I do the dynamic single leg work is focus more on the concentric side of it…. I think that’s really helping emulate starting a sprint from a static start” “The more coordinatively challenging a lift becomes, I won’t put a tendo on… for a reverse lunge that is more stable, or a regular split squat, I’ll throw a tendo on and actually measure it” “It’s a bit of a bell curve that happens, we’ve been taking a lot of our high school guys and doing single leg strength with them first, and then kind of progressing to bilateral stuff, and mixing in single leg work all the time, and then as they become pro’s, we start moving away from bilateral work again, back to single leg work again” About Cameron Josse Cameron Josse is the Director of Sports Performance at DeFranco’s Gym. He has worked with DeFranco’s Gym owner Joe DeFranco since he was 17 years old. As a former athlete in DeFranco’s training programs,

This episodes guest is Cameron Josse of DeFranco Training Systems. Cameron Josse is the Director of Sports Performance for DeFranco's Training Systems in East Rutherford, NJ. Cameron has been working with DeFranco's Training Systems since 2013 and has quickly built up a resume working with a multitude of athletes in high school and collegiate sports, as well as professional athletes in the NFL, NHL, UFC, and WWE superstars. Cameron earned his bachelor's degree in kinesiology while playing football at the University of Rhode Island and completed a master's degree in exercise science from William Paterson University.On this episode Cameron and I discuss: Cam’s background and influences The good and not so good that Cam sees within the physical preparation profession Ego and coaching Overcoaching our athletes Cam’s Training System A detailed discussion on Cam's microcycle set up Using Upper Body as Day 1 in the microcycle for potentiation Biggest Lessions Cam has learned in his career so far Cam's Top Advice  If Cam could invite 5 people to dinner dead or alive who would he invite and why? This was another outstanding episode.Hope you guys enjoy it!Stay Strong, RBShow Sponsor:To get INSTANT ACCESS to almost 20 hours of World Class online video Strength and Conditioning Information go to upmentorship.com

Cameron Josse is Head of Performance for the world famous DeFranco’s Training in New Jersey USA. Over the course of a decade, Cameron has worked his way up from being [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #43: DeFranco’s Head of Performance Cameron Josse appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

This week, Joe D. and Cameron Josse break down the 40-Yard Dash. While listening to this show, you'll learn their favorite drills, exercises, techniques and templates for running a faster 40. For Show Notes & Timestamps go to Joe DeFranco's Industrial Strength Show

This week, Joe D. and Cameron Josse break down the 40-Yard Dash. While listening to this show, you'll learn their favorite drills, exercises, techniques and templates for running a faster 40. For Show Notes & Timestamps go to Joe DeFranco's Industrial Strength Show

This week’s guest is Lee Taft, who is highly respected as one of the top athletic movement specialists in the world. He has taught his multi-directional speed methods to top performance coaches and fitness professionals all over the world. Today’s episode is all about coaching and building speed in a team sport environment. Through my own journey in learning about the role of vision and reaction in sport this past year, as well as some podcast episodes highlighting reactionary skill as a critical component of the training process, such as Episode #35 with Cameron Josse, I’ve been searching for experts who can lay down solid guidelines on making what we do as strength and speed experts count when it comes to on-the-court play. One of the most frustrating things as a sports performance coach is working extremely hard to improve athletes strength, power and armor, but then watching them struggle to keep up with the movement skill of the opposing team. Lee’s work in multi-directional sport movement helps to fill in that gap. You’ll find great insight particularly from his ideas on reactionary speed, linking movements, sensory roles of the feet in team sport movement, and more. This is an episode that confirmed some things I’d been hearing from great coaches in the past year, and more importantly, sparked new ideas and thought processes in me, to the effect that I’ve been pouring over slow-motion YouTube videos of the world’s best athletes, as well as creating conversation with my fellow sports performance professionals. Lee is a first-class individual, and whatever your mode of coaching (strength, track and field, physical education) I know you’ll love this episode! Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more. Key Points: • Lee’s background in the speed and agility field • How athletes move well innately, are a product of their environment, and when there is a need to coach them • Guidelines in making the decision to actually coach an athlete’s movement pattern and technique • How often to cue an athlete, and how many attempts to go before we give instruction • Some of the worst cues for athletes in the realm of speed and agility • Why the false step • Reasons people can be fast linearly, but lack multi-directional speed • Linking skills and movements, and their importance to speed ability • The line in building speed, where strength coach ends and sport coach begins • Foot strength, shin angles and mobility in the scope of team sports • Lee’s favorite lifts, generally speaking, for speed development Quotes: “The younger coaches should be banned from the internet and “quick access” so that they have to actually lock themselves in a weightroom or court, and learn from trial and error!” “A drill is just a conduit to a skill” “All humans are designed to be able to move. Their exposure to organized activities that force different patterns. That is what is going to determine how efficient and effective they move in those sports” “What my feet do (in response to an attacker or defender) is built in. It’s not a conscious thought.” “If I had the guts to do it, I would open up a facility that was just based on play, but a little more systematic. I have a ton of reaction games, tag games, and implement those in a progression. Play is how we learn, the ability to predict our opponents movement, that is what makes us appear quicker” “Guided discovery means that I make sure I wind you up and head you in the right direction, and let you go. I want to make sure I don’t interfere with your learning process.” “I gotta get out of the way and have enough confidence in myself, and an ego that can be checked and say “the more I talk, the more I delay the learning process”” “If an athlete’s understanding isn’t there, then I’ll immediately give instruction…. If rep to rep,

This week’s guest is DeFranco’s gym director of sports performance Cameron Josse.  Cameron is one of the brightest young performance coaches in the industry, and at age 26 is one of the leaders in ushering in data driven work on heavy resisted sprints for NFL preparation. Cameron trained under Joe DeFranco as a scholastic athlete, and eventually joined his staff where he now works with athletes of all ages, including many professionals.  Right now, Cameron is doing some of the most advanced speed training around for his athletes, which include a contingent of NFL vets and pro-day hopefuls. Much of this work centers around what he is doing with the 1080 sprint based on the research of JB Morin, Matt Cross and others on heavy loaded sprinting.  Heavy resisted loads are quite a hot-button topic right now, as the research suggests their usefulness but there isn’t the practical case study quota right now to really make people jump in on it.  Cameron is doing work right now in this regard, and speaks on his exact methods at length on this potentially effective means of getting athletes faster. Outside of this, Cameron is doing great work on “game speed” based training, which goes far beyond linear speed ability, and is very involved, dealing with lots of sensory and reactive aspects.  Game speed is a relatively new paradigm in the world of sport performance that is of a very high importance to transfer in team sport success. Our talk today also ranges to vertical jump training and means of building the feet for optimal performance.  Overall, this was an amazing talk, and most definitely worth the listen all the way through. Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more. Key Points Cameron’s background Utilizing the 1080 sprint with NFL veteran and pro-day athletes Heavy loaded sprints with the 1080 sprint, and applications for traditional sled sprints in the heavy-load paradigm Linear speed vs. “sport” speed, and all the sensory, reactionary and environmental differences within Cameron’s thoughts on the speed ladder and its effect on movement Common acceleration errors Special strength exercises for vertical jump development Cameron’s take on training the feet Quotes “The 40 yard dash is pretty much the only (combine) test that matters” “Studies have concluded that anywhere form 69-91% of bodymass should be on the sled for recreational or team sport athletes, and as high as 96% for real sprinters.  That’s to improve the mechanical capacity for force at lower velocities.” “The optimal load (for improving force) is found in a range of 48-52% of the velocity decrement” “When I finally found the optimal training load, as an example I had two different running backs, one of them is a little bigger, he is about 220lbs, and his 50% max velocity fell around a load that was 74% of his bodymass, the load that was “optimal” for him.  The other running back that was only 200lbs, his optimal load fell around 82% of his bodymass.” “I’m going to start tapering my athletes down with the lighter resistance sprints directly after their work with the optimal load (within a single workout)” “The 50% (max velocity) rule (for heavy loaded sprints) doesn’t work with split time.  Split time isn’t as accurate as being able to measure maximal velocity, but it’s a step in the right direction” “With jump work, you can get away with (heavy contrast training), you can do a heavy squat and follow it up with an unloaded jump, and it’s OK, but because of how technical sprinting is, that’s a big reason that JB Morin and those guys say that heavy sled work isn’t technical work, it’s specific strength work for sprinting.  If you go that heavy, and then (immediately) go unloaded, you’re going to fall on your face like I did. “It took them 5-6 seconds to run 20m against this (opti...