Mike Bradley training athletes at Florida State University
Mike Bradley (email – mbradley [at] fsu [dot] edu) is the Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Florida State University Basketball Team. Bradley helped the Seminoles win the ACC Championship in 2012, play in a school record four consecutive NCAA Tournaments (2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012) and earn a No. 3 seed in the 2017 NCAA Tournament.
Bradley designed and equipped the state-of-the-art weight room in the Seminoles’ Basketball Training Facility that opened in 2002. The weight room is considered to be one of the best and most complete in all of Division I sports.
Prior to joining Florida State, Bradley had a very successful four-year tenure at Stanford, the Cardinal won the Sears’ Directors’ Cup as the nation’s top overall program in Division I athletics four times. Stanford played in the NCAA Tournament each of the four years Bradley worked with the men’s basketball team. In 2002, the Cardinal was 31-3 and led the nation in victories.
In the podcast, we cover:
- Mike’s strength and conditioning programs
- What most strength and conditioning coaches get wrong
- The most gifted athletes Mike has ever trained
- And much more
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Selected Links from the Episode
- Ultimate Exercise
- Southern Methodist University
- South Carolina State University
- West Point
- Stanford University
- Resistance Exercise Conference
- High Intensity Training
- Super Slow
- Golds Gym
- MedX
- Nautilus, Inc.
- Beyond Brawn: 3rd Edition by Stuart McRobert ( Amazon US / Amazon UK )
- Ectomorphic
- Objectivism
- Training Bulletins #1 and #2
- Arthur Jones – The Home of Full Range Exercise
- Athletic Journal
- First 50 years in the iron game articles
- The Steel Tip
- High Intensity Training Newsletter
- A Practical Approach To Strength Training, 4th Ed by Matt Brzycki ( Amazon US / Amazon UK )
- Super Slow: The Ultimate Exercise Protocol by Ken Hutchins ( Amazon US / Amazon UK )
- Hardgainer newsletters
- Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body Building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week by Dr Doug McGuff and John R. Little ( Amazon US / Amazon UK )
- High Intensity Strength Training Volume 1: Theory and Application
- High Intensity Strength Training Volume 2: Exercise Protocols and Techniques
- High Intensity Strength Training Volume 3: Organization and Implementation
- High Intensity Strength Training Volume 4: Metabolic Conditioning and Manual Resistance Training
People Mentioned
- Dr Doug McGuff (Listen to my episodes with Doug here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4)
- Luke Carlson (Listen to my episodes with Luke here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4)
- Rob Serrano
- Ann-Marie Anderson
- Arthur Jones
- Thomas Sowell
- John Cristy
- Stuart McRobert
- Al Thornton
- Michael Ojo
- Mark Asanovich (Listen to my episode with Mark here)
- Brandon Allen
- Dr Michelle Segar (Listen to my episode with Michelle here)
- Dr Ken Leistner
- John Wood
- Dr. Ted Lambrinides
- Matthew Brzycki
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428 – Unlocking Synergy or Sowing Confusion: The Risks and Rewards of Adding HIT to Your Health Business with Luke Carlson
427 – The HIT Protocols Pete Cerqua Used to Grow a 7-Figure Personal Training Business
So much for the value of muscle hypertrophy according to Mr. Bradley!
His mention of eccentric emphasized reps caught my attention. Could it be that an eccentric emphasis on repetitions can be cardio-protective…..tendon healing…..trigger-point curative……hypertrophic inducing….flexibility producing….strength producing….myokine delivery jack-of-all trades. Not to mention safe….
Eccentric emphasis is very underestimated indeed and you can actually feel the difference in the muscle and it’s quite profound ! The lowering phase of training is more effective and safer than the lifting phase because in the turn around of the rep is where the joints / connective tissue is the most vulnerable .