We are talking weight lifting and Coach Romano’s incredible shoe game! Chris Romano is the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach and Sports Scientist at Walton High School, as well as one of the Assistant Baseball Coaches. Chris has a Masters degree in exercise science, the National Strength & Conditioning -CSCS with Distinction & RSCC (Registered Strength & Conditioning Coaches), USAW Level 2, FMS, and is a Certified Sports Nutritionist. Chris & Walton were one of the 37 high schools worldwide (one of 3 in Georgia) to be named a National Strength & Conditioning Association Strength of America Award winner in 2020, and he has been nominated for the 2020 NSCA High School Strength Coach of the Year. Besides working with high school athletes, Chris has interned with both the Braves and Dodgers Sports Performance Departments and was a volunteer assistant coach for Kennesaw State football S&C in 2019. Chris is one of the National Strength & Conditioning Association's Google Cameo Coaches, creating video demonstrations and answers to trending strength & conditioning google search questions. Chris started volunteering at Walton in January of 2018 and has built Walton's S&C program to include himself as well as a staff of interns working with baseball, football, fastpitch, cheerleading, boys & girls basketball and boys and girls lacrosse. Chris comes from an athlete background having played Baseball, Football, Alpine skiing, and Olympic Weightlifting. Chris represented Team USA 5 times as a master lifter in Olympic Weightlifting competing in 2 world championships, and three pan ams.
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Faigenbaum et al 2009 youth resistance training (more recent data than the 1999 paper) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281535193_Resistance_training_for_children_and_adolescents_Are_there_health_outcomes
Banyard et al 2018, Velocity based training compared with % based training: https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/ijspp/14/2/article-p246.xml
My professor's paper on bat swing kinematics https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1409/
link to energy systems used broken down by sport: https://images.app.goo.gl/hEwL5Skchb7EPTLd8