Weights of Valor

Year 1 in the swamp! 🐊

Almost that time! Florida Gators Basketball 🐊

First off I’d like to thank my USF athletes, friends, family the entire athletics department and community back in San Francisco - without you none of this is possible.

With that being said I’d like to say a special thanks to Duke Warner, Coach Todd Golden and the rest of the University of Florida athletics family involved in my hiring process for this incredible opportunity to be the Director of Strength and Conditioning for Gators Mens Basketball.

Extremely blessed and grateful to start this next chapter in life and to call the swamp home!

It’s always about the people! My time at USF has been nothing short of incredible. From the bottom of my heart, I’d like to thank all my athletes for impacting my life in more ways than you will ever know. One thing I can truly say is that I never took you all for granted and I hope you felt that every time we interacted! Being your coach was the greatest privilege and I hope you know that every time you came into the weight room I strived to bring out the best in you. It has and will always be about you and the team. Thank you to the administrators, sport coaches and staff that I was fortunate to work with - those relationships will last a lifetime. Love you all.

Dons are in the buildin!

✅ 8-0 (Best start since 1976-77)
✅ Las Vegas Invitational 🏆
✅ Don-dadas just getting started

Overdue for the gang !! We’re coming for it all!!

✅Swim
✅Run
✅Weights

is DIFFERENT!!

“Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much!”

With limited access to a gym it’s a great opportunity to work on sprints! It’s one of the simplest things you can do to work on your power as well as maintain muscle mass. I have begun to analyze my own sprint mechanics by starting week 1 of my 12-week sprint program which starts with working on the Falling Start. The falling starts helps in working some key starting acceleration principles such as:
• Head and Body Position (Posture)
• Shin, Knee and Hip Angle
• Leg Drive
• As well as observing specific behaviors of a joint which start with the feet, heels, toes etc.

Many qualities come into play with the acceleration sprint but just a couple things to keep in mind is to ✅project maximally with each step ✅ raise your center of mass with every step and ✅ increase rhythm with every step. Remember Intent is everything!

Had the opportunity to help prep for the season during the fall - wishing the boys a helluva season. Let’s go Dons! ⚾️

Mood when the Zags are up next on the schedule 🏀
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Brotherhood! Appreciate you dropping me a visit at the USF training grounds! We’ve come a long way - keep up the great work brother.

Words don’t do justice to explain the impact that you have had on our program, university, my career but most importantly, our student athletes. You elevated our athletic performance department to new levels and built something that we can all be proud of. To say that I am extremely grateful for the opportunity you gave me to become a is an understatement. We’re gonna miss you around here coach! Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors!!

Great learning experience this past Friday at Health Performance Summit! on the forefront of how we recognize athlete strengths and weaknesses within a global movement assessment 👊🏽

What were striving for vs. where we are at 😂
Work to do!

The back on your timeline with the ‼️ @ University of San Francisco

Boom 💥 💥💥
First week in the books so you know I had Beach Volleyball straight flexin‼️💪🏽💪🏽

I am excited to say that I have joined the University of San Francisco’s Athletic Performance staff as a full time strength and conditioning coach! What an unbelievable journey as I couldn’t be more excited and grateful for the opportunity to be a USF ! Let’s Work!

Lastly shoutout to my guy for his mentor ship over the last few months! Grateful to have had the opportunity to grind next to you and have appreciated all of your guidance. Pumped for all the continued success headed your way brother!

Although my time at Louisiana Tech University was brief, the relationships I made here will last a lifetime. Thank you LATech administration, coaches and most importantly all the student-athletes for allowing me to be a small part of your journey.. And to my thanks for always bringing the energy 🔥🔥 and the juice to the weight room ‼️ I hope y’all learned from me as much as I did from you! Keep raising the bar!

Shoutout to the squad for bringing back some hardware! 🏆 😤

Almost that time!

It was great linking up with one of my old mentors and brotha, Coach Bayer up at Sonoma State University with some of our old crew! Fortunate to have been in the trenches with such a solid group. Keep pushin boss!

Good first training day! Looking forward to guiding through his athletic development program as he develops his skills as a boxer.
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You are either the hammer or the nail. Be the hammer ❗️🔨

DO. THE. WORK!

Gonna miss this future as she heads to Chicago to start a new chapter and begin her Graduate Program! Thank you for all your hard work and for coming back during your summers to get this training in!

One of my supporters came by to put in some strength and conditioning work this week! Keep pushing the envelope boss-appreciate you bro!

Devote yourself to an idea ✅
Struggle on it ✅
Overcome your Fears ✅
Do the Work ✅
Level up 👆🏾