Episode 06: Feeding The Cats & Technology in the Weight Room with Deerick Smith
Deerick Smith, head strength coach at Southside High School in Arkansas, on Tony Holler's Feed the Cats approach to speed, a conditioning test built on real snap-to-snap rest, and timing gates that run 60 kids in 15 minutes.
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by TeamBuildr , on Oct 7, 2020
Welcome back to another week of The TeamBuildr Podcast and this week our guest is Deerick Smith, a man brave enough to wear tie-dye. Deerick is the Director of Strength and Conditioning and Assistant Football Coach at Southside Charter High School in Arkansas. He is a football coach turned strength coach, is currently getting his masters degree, managing a side hustle, training all of high school athletes, and he still finds time to answer *some* of his DM's on Twitter.
In this episode we get to talk about how Deerick is integrating his weight room with all sorts of technology. They recently purchased a new timing system for speed development, they already use TeamBuildr, and the kids will soon be getting Apple Watches and iPads (can I go there?). We also talk about his new methods of speed training which include 'Feeding The Cats' and the 'Tribe Test' from the coaches at William & Mary.
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