86 - Chris Joyner: Auburn University S&C

Joyner Notes

 

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Bio

• Current Auburn S&C coach Baseball (August 2018 - Present, 4th season)
• 16 years in pro ball
• Major League S&C Coordinator for Toronto Blue Jays 2014-2017.
• Major League S&C Coordinator for Brewers 2007-2010
• Minor League S&C coordinator for Toronto Blue Jays from 2003-2006 working with more than 150 players in the system including Roy Halladay.
• Has worked with some big time big leaugers like Roy Halladay, Trevor Hoffman, Jose Bautista, and Josh Donaldson.

 

Notes

• Run your own ship - need to be able to make adjustment on your own because coaches will not always be around
• Scouts asking S&C what a player is like!
• Journaling each week and reflecting on the week
  • Sleep, final exam before the start, program, drink enough?
• All about Developing trust 
• Listening to the players
• Know players you have the best interest at heart
  • Push when they need pushed
  • Let them rest when they need to rest
• Create athlete profiles
  • Movement assessment 
  • Force plate
  • Range of motion
  • Baseline test
  • FMS
• What is the development from the day they stepped in?
• Movement is the foundation, and whatever is on top of it will fall
• You have to have a baseline of movement
• Explode, load, and drive - 
• Track average velo and peak velo
• What does that profile look like?
• Recognize red flags
• Earn the right to load up
• Weight Room where they can just train and be a safe place
• All about patterning (hinge, push, pull , carry)
• Menu of options of the patterns (uppers, lowers, total body,)
• Give them an arm throwing program working with the PC with weightlifting on a calendar. Try to detail as much as possible
• Adapt to skill work, scrimmage, 
• Treat it like spring training - hit the most important patterns
• Starters get them on their routine
• Relievers treated like position players - 2 days in season or 4 days in off season
• Always encourage recovery
• Be as consistent as you can on workout days
• In season - be on a routine, be consistent,
• Giving them ownership of a program based on how their body performs, what they like and how it works for them (individualize)
• Master the simple things
• Surveys at the end of fall to get feedback from players on all areas what they like and do not like
• Incoming guys take summer school and it helps tremendously to get used to routine, campus, coaches and their style.
• Not stretching the cold rubber band - lacrosse ball, thera gun, foam roller
• How do I prepare? I’m fixing to go do some work, so attack it in your pre work
• Philosophy - prepare, work, recovery, repeat
• In season we are more “recovery specialist”
  • Foam roller
  • Cold tub
  • Hot tub
  • Recovery boots
  • Lacrosse ball
• Same movement pattern but different phase of the pattern (load, explode, drive)
• How does their top velo and average velo correlate to show when guys can go back to back and how to program him the days before and after appearance
• What is going on with your body weight?
• The numbers are telling me you just need to rest and recover
• squat , hinge, push, pull, carry
• What movements are they doing on the field
  • Work on them!
• What the fundamental patterns are - it just doesn’t look right and you address those
  • Make time for it in practice - body weight, pushups, balance, stretch
• For us it is movement!! If you are not moving right, work on it
• Heart rate ranges based on who they were (for conditioning)
• Different conditioning for different guys based on their development
• Its not a one size fits all
• Conditioning is about work capacity and does not have to be just running
• cnj0018@auburn.edu
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