The U Miami Strength and Conditioning Coach and His 45 Pound Barbell Weight Chain Is A Bad Bad Man
FootballScoop – First-year Miami director of strength and conditioning Gus Felder had quite the shoes to fill when he joined Mark Richt in Miami.
“This game is 90% mental and 10% physical, and we understand that. Your body is going to follow your mind, and one thing that we don’t want to do, is we don’t want to quit anything that we start, in life. The stuff that we do in the weight room is not just for football, it will set you up in life.”
“”People in general want to quit things instead of fighting through things. You don’t have a testimony until you have a test. We want to test them now and find how how they’re going to do now before we get out there on Saturdays.”
Then, around the 3:40 mark, Felder talks about the unique bond and relationship that successful strength coaches have with their guys.
“That relationship is big, and it’s something that all strength coaches desire. A lot of these young guys get into the profession thinking that they’re going to ‘train’ someone.”
“We don’t ‘train’ guys, we coach lives. There are a lot of life lessons being brought into this, and brought out of this,” Felder explained before expanding on the respect he has for his former strength coaches at the college and NFL level.
“This is what we do. It’s so much more to ask a guy to put 500 pounds on his back multiple times, or to push a heavy sled. You’ve got to have a relationship, you can’t just grind on someone and then have them go do that.”
Felder then looked directly at a reporter and said, “You wouldn’t want to do what we’re doing because you don’t know me, but once you get to know me you’ll do anything that I ask you to do.”
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I want to do it Coach Felder! Ask me to do it! Coach me! Condition me! Holy shit, I don’t just want Coach Felder in the blog room with me every day yelling over my shoulder while his 45 pound barbell weight chain dangles in my face, I need it. I’ll have like 4 Pulitzers by Christmas.
“We don’t train guys. We coach lives.”
Amazing. Putting that on my bulletin board.
Strength and Conditioning coaches…simply the best. From another planet.
