Join Us and We’ll Teach You and Your Staff How to Design Your Entire Summer Nutrition, Pre-hab, Speed, Agility, Strength, Power and Conditioning Program to Help You Maximize Your Teams Potential
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From the Desk of: Carlo Alvarez
On May 8, 2010, will be the third year that we will host the St. Xavier High School Football Strength and Conditioning Clinic in Cincinnati. Every year we look to improve our clinic by keeping the topics relevant to what’s happening at the high school level.
Last year, we focused on the development of the entire strength and conditioning program from getting your administration to buy into your program, to picking the right sets and reps to maximize your football programs gains. The speakers came from some of the top programs in the country and shared all their secrets. It’s not every day that you get to sit down, listen and interact with the top strength and conditioning coaches from National, BCS and Conference Championship teams.
Over the last year, there has been a swell of topics and information relating to the development of the freshman athlete, injury rates, proper nutrition strategies and program implementation. From experience in the speaking circuit, relationships with doctors, athletic trainers, physical therapist and fellow strength coaches, we have started to see a pattern in how programs are developing their young athletes and its consequences over their 4-year high school playing career. So, we are taking this opportunity at our clinic, to help our fellow football and strength and conditioning coaches develop the complete summer program.
This year, we’ll help you Design a Complete 8-week Summer Program.
- Mike Gordon and Chris Giordullo, athletic trainers and performance rehab specialists will teach you how to maximize the relationship between sports medicine, therapy, reconditioning, strength and conditioning and the head football coach. This has become an integral part of successful programs around the country at the high school, college and professional level.
- Coach Joe Kenn, will help you implement the freshmen athletes into your system, without taking away from the development of your upper classmen.
- Coach Michael Szerszen, will cover how to start your program on the right foot from day one of summer.
- Dawn Weatherwax, will speak on what is important in regards to nutrition for high school athletes and how that maximizes performance
- Coach Lee Taft will talk about what’s the best way to handle large number of athletes as you implement your team speed training sessions
- Coach Mike Shibinski is a motivated speaker, who brings great passion into his talk- Summer Readiness Program- and how that affects your mindset prior to the season
- Dr. Ken is back as our MC and resident expert on all things strength and conditioning. He will moderate the clinic and share his own thoughts as it relates to integrating what you hear and your own unique situations.
This has become the top high school football strength and conditioning clinic in the country and we hope you can join us.
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CEU’s:
CSCS / NSCA – CPT Continuing Education Units = .7CEUs
NATA / BOC Continuing Education Units= 7CEUs
Hotel
Millennium Hotel – Cincinnati
150 West 5th Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
513-352-2120
Mention St. X Clinic for special rate
Clinic Speakers and Topics
Introduction, Welcome and MC
Dr. Ken Leistner, American Strength Training Legend
Football Injury Prevention and Management
Mike Gordon, Head Athletic Trainer, St. Xavier High School
Advances in Sports Rehabilitation and Reconditioning
Chris Giordullo, Director Therapy Education and Research, Wellington Orthopedics
Block Zero: Integrating the Freshman Athlete into Your Program
Joe Kenn, Master Strength and Conditioning Coach, Big House Power
Implementing Your Summer Program from Day One
Michael Szerszen, Asst. Strength and Conditioning Coach, University of Cincinnati
Nutrition Strategies for High School Athletes
Dawn Weatherwax, Performance Nutritionist, Sports Nutrition 2 Go
Summer Readiness Program
Mike Shibinski, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, Princeton High School
Key Concepts in High School Football Strength and Conditioning
Carlo Alvarez, Head Strength & Conditioning Coordinator, St. Xavier High School
Designing a Complete Team Speed Program
Lee Taft, World Class Speed Coach
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CLINIC SPEAKERS
Ken Leistner is an American strength training writer, personal trainer, chiropractor and strength consultant for the National Football League. He is often known as “Dr. Ken”. In 1992, Leistner founded the Iron Island Gym in Long Island and has been a regular columnist for Milo since its inception in April 1993. He was a monthly columnist for Powerlifting USA from February 1979 through November 2000, and was a long-time columnist for Hardgainer. He has written articles for a number of other strength training magazines. He started his own training newsletter, The Steel Tip, in 1985, and published 36 issues. Leistner also contributed a chapter to the book Maximize Your Training. He is married to the former Kathy Tuite, a photographer and world-class powerlifter in the early 1980s.
Joe Kenn is the owner of Big House Power and the former Director of Athletic Development at the University of Louisville. Prior to Louisville, Coach Kenn spent seven seasons at Arizona State University, including five as the head coach of ASU’s Sports Performance program. Kenn came to ASU after serving as the director of strength and conditioning at the University of Utah from 1999 -2000. Kenn was the head strength and conditioning coach at Boise State from 1994-99, but spent nine years total at Boise State (1991-99). His first coaching assignment came as an assistant football and strength coach at Pine Crest Preparatory School in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (1989-1990). He then became the assistant strength and conditioning coach at Wake Forest University in 1991. Kenn was named the College Strength and Conditioning Professional of the Year in 2002 and has been a finalist for the award four times during his career.
Lee Taft is highly respected as one of the top athletic movement specialist in the country, Lee is co-owner of Sports Speed, Etc., Inc. and President of Lee Taft Speed Academy, Inc. Lee earned his B.S. in Physical Education from Cortland State and his M.S. in Sports Science from the United States Sports Academy. Lee serves as Executive Vice President for the International Youth Conditioning Association (IYCA), the premier international authority with respect to athletic development and young athlete-based conditioning. Over the past 20 years, Lee has worked with many athletes of all ages and abilities. His major focus and passion has been in the athletic development of young athletes. Nationally known as an expert in athletic movement technique, Lee teaches innovative techniques to improve multidirectional speed that are the up and coming teaching methods of many professionals.
Mike Szerszen is in his first year as assistant strength and conditioning coach at the University of Cincinnati. Prior to his appointment, he was Szerszen was the head strength and conditioning coach at EMU for 3 years. Before joining the EMU staff, Szerszen was an assistant strength and conditioning coach at the U.S. Military Academy (Army) the previous year. The 28-year-old Szerszen (12-28-78) earned his undergraduate degree in sports medicine in 2001 from the University of Charleston. He was a graduate assistent strength and conditioning coach at West Virginia University from May 2000 to May 2001. Szerszen was a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach at WVU from May 2001 to July 2002.
Carlo Alvarez is in his sixth season as the Strength and Conditioning Coordinator at St. Xavier High School, the home of Ohio’s Division I Football State Champions in 2005 and 2007, where he oversees the program development of all 13 sports and 700 athletes. He began his coaching career at his alma mater, University of Cincinnati as a student assistant and in 1998, ventured to South Bend, Indiana to the University of Notre Dame. In 2000, he became the Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coordinator for the Cleveland Indians and in 2002, Strength and Conditioning Coordinator for the Cincinnati Reds. He is recognized as one of the top high school strength and conditioning coaches in the country.
Mike Shibinski for over 25 years has been working with top notch athletes at top notch programs. As a three sport athlete and football player at Cincinnati Elder High School, Mike learned the value of hard work and serious training. He honed his athletic skills playing college football for the Butler University (Indianapolis) Bulldogs. Soon after, Mike headed to Ohio State University to become a graduate assistant strength coach for the Buckeyes and a Master’s Degree in the strength training and conditioning of athletes. He began his coaching career at Mansfield (Ohio) Malabar High School and before settling down at Cincinnati Princeton High School, he acquired state championship rings at the legendary Moeller High School and at the Cincinnati Academy of Physical Education (C.A.P.E.).
Michael Gordon has been the Head Athletic Trainer at St. X, for the last 5 years, after spending two years at the Lakota School District and Middletown Regional Hospital. Mike graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a B.S. in Health Promotions -Athletic Training in 2004, and has performed internships with the Cincinnati Bengals under Dr. Robert Heidt, Jr. and with the Cincinnati Reds under Carlo Alvarez. Mike resides in Oakley with his wife Sara, who is a graphic designer.
Dawn Weatherwax is a Registered / Licensed Dietitian with a specialty in Sports Nutrition and Founder of Sports Nutrition 2Go. She is also a Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics, which is the premier professional sports nutrition credential in the United States. Dawn brings a unique understanding of the athlete’s body and its nutritional needs to those interested in achieving specific performance goals and optimal health. Dawn is also the author of The Official Snack Guide for Beleaguered Sports Parents and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Sports Nutrition. She is an Official Speaker for the Gatorade Sports Science Institute and on the approval speaker list for the NCAA. Dawn is an active member in the American Dietetic Association (ADA), Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutritionists Dietetic Practice Group (SCAN), American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA), National Athletic Training Association (NATA), & Greater Cincinnati Athletic Training Association (GCATA).
