Our new high school - Benjamin Russell is open and we now have an actual track! Very exciting. Gavin does his speed training on the track today since all the fields were too wet from rain. But this was a great opportunity to see how fast he can run on a track and we timed his very 1st 100 meter sprint! We were very happy with is time and now have a baseline for this that we can practice on as well.
Then we joined up with Collin back at the home gym and got some nordic hamstring exercises in as well as bench velocity testing, and a chest workout. We also finally broke out the jammer arms to test out on our all in one home gym by Landmark Athletics - the TC EXT 3 (see link below if you are interested in this). The jammer arms were very cool and gives a good chest pump as well as a good back workout.
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Let's see if we can set a new PR on the track here.
All right, new PR.
Doing the jammer arms.
Getting a good stretch, good squeeze.
Welcome to my life, welcome to my life, yeah.
Welcome to my life, welcome to my...
We're at the new Benjamin Russell track and field and practice football field.
It's finally open and yes, Benjamin Russell finally has a new track.
It's nice too.
Bounding, explode, explode, explode.
Pogo.
All right, did mini prime times, now big prime time.
Cover distance, explode.
First 40 on the track.
Let's see if we can set a new PR on the track here.
Look pretty fast.
That's slower, 5.15 was first time.
Knees up, stride out, get there, get there.
No way, felt faster.
5.14, that's still your PR, isn't it?
I don't know, maybe.
We've never timed a hundred meter before,
so we're going to do a hundred meter dash while we're at the track,
since it's already measured off for us and just out of curiosity.
He's feeling pretty good on the track.
Got his spikes on, so we're going to see how this goes.
Run all the way through when you get here.
Keep going, keep going, keep going.
All the way through, all the way through, all the way through, all the way through.
That's a lot longer than expected.
That's a long way, isn't it?
Yeah, I tried to chat GPT it.
Oh my gosh, it's a long run.
So here's what Chad said.
For an average 15-year-old athlete, 12 to 13.
Above average fast for sports, 11.8 to 12.
Serious track sprinter, varsity level, 11.2 to 11.7.
Weren't quite there, what were you, 11?
Nine, I think.
11.9, yeah.
11.9, got to get down to that sub 11 for elite.
Breaking 12 is legitimate fast.
Breaking 11.5 puts an athlete in rare territory.
Breaking 11 at 15 is exceptional.
All right, that's according to Chad, pretty good.
All right, well, we now have our first 100 meter on a track.
So according to Chad, that's pretty good for a 15-year-old.
And actually saying his 40 should be faster based on that.
So it said he should be around that five flat,
but I feel like that's where he should be as well.
So we obviously still got to work on some of that starting
acceleration phase.
So he's got pretty good top end.
Just got to keep working, which that's what we're going to do.
We're going to keep working.
He'll continue to grow until you get in the weight room,
get stronger, get faster, get bigger.
Speaking of weight room, probably gonna go hit that right now.
All right, we ran the sprints.
Now we're in the home gym.
Got the OVR peak velocity out today.
We have not done this.
It's the very first time.
Let's see if Gavin's getting any stronger.
I know who's the stranger over here.
Oh, look, somebody's joining us in the weight room.
Hold it like three seconds in your chest and then explode up.
188.
Honestly, I don't remember what our numbers were before.
I got to go look.
All right, that was his first time.
Actually hasn't even really warmed up.
So it's kind of like a warm up maybe.
182 and that's a little less.
Hold on your chest.
Hey, 198.
He came up off the bench.
Making fun of you, boy.
That's how you do it.
All right, Colin's turn.
This is kind of fresh.
No warm up.
He hasn't done this since either.
Let's see.
Hold three.
Oh, that's weak.
2.4 and I don't remember what your best was.
Gavin said his best was 2.1 from before.
All right, second rep.
2.39.
I should have done like some push-ups or something.
That's what I told Gavin.
Y'all should do some push-ups.
Warm up a little bit.
Third set.
Oh, that was way slower.
2.43.
I thought it's going to be really weird.
Yeah.
Press it on my chest.
Three.
Oh, 2.4, boy.
Oh, that was weak.
I've never done this before.
My first time.
2.46.
There you go.
You did the jar method.
2.6.
All right, 2.6.
All right, G's going to do his push-ups.
All right, he feels like he's warmed up.
Go fast.
I didn't say that.
Go fast.
You gotta try new stuff.
1.24.
Oh, it was?
Yeah, new stuff didn't work.
Looks weird.
All right, let's try a second time.
It looks like you're doing something.
We're back.
1.2.
You're definitely-
Oh, it's not happening.
It's not on peak.
But the first one was better.
It was a big drop, so go back one.
Oh!
Oh, it was a 2.01.
Oh, but that looks stupid.
It did.
Come on, gotta get a PR.
Gosh.
2.07.
Hurt my head.
1.94.
Colin's back up.
Boy, you're weak.
2.54.
You going immediately?
Boy, you're weak.
2.35.
I'm gonna do a set of it.
2.42.
All right, Gavin wants to go again.
See if he can beat his previous best.
2.15.
Go ahead.
Hey, that's your best, right?
Because it was a 2.14?
I had 2.13.
All right, new PR.
Barely.
Oh, 2.16.
Slow improvement.
2.01.
Yeah.
All right, we're trying a little psychological game here.
Colin wanted the velocity on the right side, or on his left side.
So we swapped it from the right.
Oh, you're so weak.
Hang on, that's an average.
It was 2.54.
2.57.
Oh, 2.45.
Gavin working on some Nordic curls.
Ow, my foot's cramping.
Meanwhile.
Ah, ah, my foot.
That's not funny.
Colin's just warming up on some bench.
He's about to do some normal bench press now.
Slow, controlled.
Gosh.
Did it give?
I don't know.
It just ripped when you pulled.
I think it loosened while you went down.
Yeah.
It definitely loosened.
Can you curl up?
Curling up's the hard part.
I can get down.
There's no getting back up.
Hamstring ease.
Little bounce.
Okay, 1.35.
Still warming up.
Colin's now transitioning to baseball.
And all they're really focused on is lower body workouts.
So he doesn't really get much upper body.
Gavin's still doing some football workout.
A few days a week.
So the weekend, we're trying to get a little supplemental workouts in.
Get them hamstrings for them sprints.
Hamstring ease.
Bails that chest.
You got to.
At 185, several reps.
And he hadn't done much bench since football.
I'm not sure why baseball doesn't do more upper body.
Drive it up.
Oh, a little pause on the chest.
Drive it, drive it.
We have to help spot Gavin.
Colin's going to try the Nordic.
Although he doesn't have it on his heels good, I don't think.
Oh, look at this.
That's stretching out.
It's not popping off.
I do that to me every single time.
That pop, it throws you off.
It doesn't do anything but throws you off.
Someone was asking recently about doing the jammer arms.
And honestly, we've never done them before.
So we just attached them.
You can raise it up and down on this post however high you want them.
And then even the handles are adjustable.
So they're originally up.
And after we got on the bench, we dropped them down one.
And then again, you can just kind of put weight in there.
And this is a pretty good little press,
especially if you use the little hammer grips.
Did you use the side grip?
Yeah, I think I like the hammer grip.
I mean, you could use either one.
But I felt like the hammer grip was probably a little better.
Give you a little side view.
So it's got those little bumpers too.
So it doesn't smash back into your railing, which is good.
Yeah, we kind of got the feel of it now.
So put some bigger weight on there now.
That weight is sliding around.
And maybe you should have put the clip on.
Yeah, well, this side's sliding off.
Always use your clips.
It feels a lot better with more weight on it.
Yeah, it feels like a good chest stretch too.
Yeah.
So this is our first time using the jammer arms.
And I really do like the stretch that you get on this,
kind of using the hammer grip.
And it still probably needs more weight.
But it's actually a nice press.
Now, I will say this bench probably helps a lot
because it's really stable.
I've seen some people try this and the bench moves around a lot.
This bench is solid.
It's not going anywhere.
So if you don't have a good bench, this may not work great.
And it kind of moves around a little bit.
So I guess that's kind of nice
because it kind of floats with you a little bit.
But it definitely feels a good chest press.
And then obviously, you can even do normal grip.
This is probably too high, honestly, for normal grip.
We probably need to drop down one of the grips for that though.
But it's adjustable.
Putting on more weight, stacking it,
doing the jammer arms with a hammer grip,
bench press, good stretch, good press.
Very nice feature to have on this Landmark Athletics.
All-in-one home gym.
It's the TC-EXT3.
Just another feature that you can use on the home gym.
Another cool thing you can do with the jammer arms
is you can do single, kind of like a lat pull.
Or you can even do a double if you want to do double.
They pull you forward.
Better be stabilized.
Another thing that you can do with these jammer arms
is you can kind of do a shoulder press from just kneeled down.
And I know a lot of times, like Collin was even saying,
for baseball, they'll do a little bit lighter weight
and just do real explosive moves in this position.
But you can definitely feel it in your shoulder.
Again, you may not want to do this every time,
but I like to have options and this gives you options.
Collin's working the flies now.
Finishing off the chest.
Doing a good stretch, good squeeze.
Nice set, nice work.
And we are done for the day, guys.
Appreciate you following along.
I know we don't get to work out with Collin as much
during baseball season, but we still at it.
Watch him play baseball soon.
Y'all keep working, keep doing your best.
We'll catch you in the next vlog.
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