Alabama Hires David Ballou as New Strength and Conditioning Coach
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His ways worked for a while, but you just have to change with the times.
As soon as I saw this play, I commented that it made Najee an extra million on his first contract
Just so y'all don't think I'm a dummy ... I didn't pass ... but I didn't fail. I am very proud of that fact to this dayThanks. That makes sense. ... However, I'm having nightmare flashbacks to my Physics w/ Calculus class @ UA 30 years ago that forced me to choose a "different path"
Ds get degr... wait, never mind...Just so y'all don't think I'm a dummy ... I didn't pass ... but I didn't fail. I am very proud of that fact to this day
I was in that class in the Spring of 1991.Thanks. That makes sense. ... However, I'm having nightmare flashbacks to my Physics w/ Calculus class @ UA 30 years ago that forced me to choose a "different path"
Everybody with an engineering major had to take Cal based Physics I & II.
True story that I've told here multiple times, the professor in the spring class was an older Japanese man. He would have likely been a child or young teen during WW2. In January, the Gulf War had just started. They test the tornado alarm in the chimes each month. The physics building is right next to the Quad. This professor had been on faculty at UA since the early 60's. They fired off the alarm and he got super jumpy, proclaims "Air Raid," and rushes out of the classroom. He comes back shaken, a few minutes later and announces it was just an alarm test. Presumably, he'd heard that alarm monthly for almost 20 years, but in that moment, it took him back to B-29's overhead and a horrific flashback.
I'm right there with you! I fought my way through class 1&2 at UAH which should have been a big red flag that electrical engineering maybe wasn't for me lol. Fast forward 1 year later, I did a 180, changed my major to nursing and never looked back. My personal takeaway from that experience, you either think like an engineer or you don't and it's dang hard to fake if you don't think that way!Thanks. That makes sense. ... However, I'm having nightmare flashbacks to my Physics w/ Calculus class @ UA 30 years ago that forced me to choose a "different path"
I'm still waiting to see that breakaway speed when Najee is carrying the football. This proves it's in there!
It's possible we were in the same class. I either took it Fall 90 or Spring 91 I think. If Sp91, you might remember me - I was the one who looked clueless.
I'm sorry to be hijacking this thread, but... From what I remember, the test was like 15 questions bubble in scantron multiple choice. Every possible permutation of the answer was possible (i.e. Q1 might actually have like 15 possible answers and take up scantron Q's 1-3 or something like that. - I may be wrong, but that's what I remember - I was being tortured so my memory may be failing me, too ).
After my first exam results, I realized studying was futile and started trying to make designs on my scantron. I doubled my score. Good times. I actually studied for the final which is how I didn't fail the class. Also, there were like 250 people in the class. I think something like 5 made As, 10 Bs, 15 Cs, 40 Ds, and 180 Fs. Again, torture.
All of this was before I met my wife in Fall 91 (she's a supergenius which forced me to focus and not play). There's Pre-Meeting-Mrs.BamaNation Brett and Post-Meeting-Mrs.BamaNation Brett.
It leaves the door open for nerdy engineers to move it further off course..............
The first day of undergrad school, they proudly announced "Half of you won't be here at the beginning of your Junior year!" We were mortified, because that meant ""And I will be notifying your local draft board that you are eligible for military service."
So, keeping that in mind, one of the ways they cooked up to make sure they met their quota was to get the resident genius, from the nuclear physics lab, to teach physics to a bunch of confused kids that were barely out of high school.
It worked so well that they ended up giving around 80% of the kids a D. Otherwise, there may not have been enough of us left to fill those seats they wanted filled by our Junior year.
My cousin got his only C in that class. (He turned out to be useless as an engineer, because he is really a mathematician. I tried to tell him, but...............) Only 2 kids got a A. One graduated with a 4.00 GPA, and the other a 3.99. (His only B came in Advanced Freshman Chemistry. The rest of us didn't know there was such a course!)
Fast forward 40+ years.................a buddy who went to the rich college, down the road, mentioned he went to the funeral for this professor. I asked him how he knew him, since he went to the college that only took the really smart kids.
"Oh, he is my cousin."
Told him about how I knew him, and how no one understood anything he said.
"That's ok. No one else in the family did either."
Turns out his family was full of really smart people....................
Lucky us!
Brett...it’s truly amazing how a good woman can save a man from himself!!!It's possible we were in the same class. I either took it Fall 90 or Spring 91 I think. If Sp91, you might remember me - I was the one who looked clueless.
I'm sorry to be hijacking this thread, but... From what I remember, the test was like 15 questions bubble in scantron multiple choice. Every possible permutation of the answer was possible (i.e. Q1 might actually have like 15 possible answers and take up scantron Q's 1-3 or something like that. - I may be wrong, but that's what I remember - I was being tortured so my memory may be failing me, too ).
After my first exam results, I realized studying was futile and started trying to make designs on my scantron. I doubled my score. Good times. I actually studied for the final which is how I didn't fail the class. Also, there were like 250 people in the class. I think something like 5 made As, 10 Bs, 15 Cs, 40 Ds, and 180 Fs. Again, torture.
All of this was before I met my wife in Fall 91 (she's a supergenius which forced me to focus and not play). There's Pre-Meeting-Mrs.BamaNation Brett and Post-Meeting-Mrs.BamaNation Brett.
My wife not only gave me the best of herself.....she also gave me the best of myself. Sounds to me that you and I are both blessed beyond what we deserve.
Roll Tide...congratulations on finding the right woman...and being smart enough to know that she is
Ha, I somehow managed to enroll in Physics with Calculus while simultaneously taking the required calculus class. The moment I realized my mistake was a terrible feeling! I kept having to study the calculus material on my own way ahead of my calculus class and make desperate phone calls to my cousin who had already finished it. It didn’t go well but I didn’t fail haha. I don’t even know how the university allowed me to enroll in the class tbh.Just so y'all don't think I'm a dummy ... I didn't pass ... but I didn't fail. I am very proud of that fact to this day
To be fair, a guy who can squat 600lbs probably can speed squat it at 300. I always thought power was trained on the barbell through power cleans anyways.
You are correct in that "power lifting" is not the same thing as "weight lifting" in terms of goals, and the squat is generally not a power lift exercise. But when you play a sport like football (or run long distances) speed squats are an amazing exercise. I do them with a "hop" at the top in my run training, with no weights at all, and I am 53 years old.
You would be stunned to see how much more explosive strength you get from doing speed squats compared to doing heavy, slow weight squats. Athletes need that explosive strength. In football, they really only play for a couple of seconds, with very short bursts of power needed. Rinse, repeat. Explosive strength (power) is far more valuable than raw strength.
Fast Twitch, right? So in essence, these two guys are at the forefront of finding the perfect mix of fast Twitch and slow Twitch for individual positions in football, instead of a broad approach of lifting as much weight as you can.
I recall in Najee's campaign videos he hit 22 MPH on a treadmill running without pads. It would be interesting to compare to his times in prior years. I believe it is likely that he has made significant improvements in his speed and power.
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