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Top ASAP Baseball Athletes

Matt Hank — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:50:30 +0000

Congratulations to two ASAP athletes: Josh Heinz of West Ranch Baseball for being named 1st Team 2010 All Santa Clarita Valley Baseball Team and J.C Cloney of West Ranch Baseball for being named 2nd Team 2010 All Santa Clarita Valley Baseball Team. Impressively both were only sophomores this past season. Once school ended they immediately started up on a training program again. The goal will be to take their performance to the next level this upcoming season.

Check out the article on the All Santa Clarita Valley Baseball Team.

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Pierce Women’s Volleyball Training Session

Matt Hank — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:52:02 +0000

Check out a training sessions with the women’s volleyball team at Pierce College. They are getting ready for the upcoming fall season by out working all other JC volleyball programs in the weight room and on the court.

I use the workout tracks by Workout Muse – make sure to check them out.

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Workout Muse

Matt Hank — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:07:36 +0000

To spice up workouts with my teams I have introduced high intensity circuits to the beat of Workout Muse. It’s great to have a cadence during metabolic training in the weight room. I used this music during parts of the football metabolic circuit. Also, I will be posting a volleyball metabolic circuit shortly and used one of these sound tracks to guide the workout. Check it out.

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Pierce Football Test Week

Matt Hank — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:41:40 +0000

The semester is coming to an end here at Pierce. Therefore, it was time to retest the football team. Results after 6 weeks since the pretesting took place:

Average increase per player – Back Squat: 48 pounds

Average increase per player – Bench Press: 19 pounds

Average increase per player – Clean: 10 pounds

I was very impressed with the squat results. We really worked on lower body strength with squats – bilateral, split stance and unilateral squats. I personally do not put much merit on the bench press, but it was nice to see about a 20 pounds increase across the board. I thought for sure we would have more successful results for the clean. It is a very technical lift and what we saw was a huge increase with athletes who had very little experience performing this lift before. At the same time, many of the athletes who have been performing the clean for many years (through high school) had very little improvement. This could be do to a few different factors: taught incorrectly how to clean in the first place (many times this is true when high school football coaches are not trained and educated to teach Olympic lifts), athletes did not take the first 4-5 weeks of the semester serious when we only performed skill transfer complexes (jump shrugs, RDLs, front squats, light weight/bar only Olympic movements), and finally it could be my fault because of program design or coaching effectiveness. Either way this will improve with the next group of incoming freshmen.

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Pierce Action Pictures

Matt Hank — Sun, 16 May 2010 04:23:41 +0000

Check out a few action shots at Pierce College.

Every program at Pierce College is designed with these training principles in mind (Training philosophies I and Training philosophies II). Every program is 3-6 weeks in length – depending on the training goal and phase of the program.

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Training Circuit

Matt Hank — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:26:53 +0000

Here is a quick clip of a Friday “Fun” Day circuit with a few football players at Pierce College.

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All CIF SS Div I Team

Matt Hank — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:07:15 +0000

Congratulations to Katie (VHS Volleyball) on making Second Team All CIF SS Div I team.

Check it out.

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SCV Volleyball Awards

Matt Hank — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:13:31 +0000

Congratulations to all the ASAP girls volleyball athletes that were selected to the ALL-SCV Girls Volleyball Team.

Player of the Year
Katie Hank – VHS

First Team
Breena Beckett – HHS
Nicole Delange – VHS
Allison Tolido – HHS

Second Team
Brianna Earley – VHS
Carly Carapella – VHS
Casey David – HHS
Hannah Orlandi – WRHS (new ASAP athlete)

Honorable Mention
Bree Braucher – WRHS (new ASAP athlete)
Jennie Long – HHS
Heidi Brown – VHS

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ASAP On The Radio

Matt Hank — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:30:15 +0000

Be sure to check out last weeks on-air interview on KHTS about sports performance and the ASAP Baseball Academy. http://hometownstation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18658:lifestyle-fitness-december1-2009&catid=100:lifestyle-fitness&Itemid=173

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All-Foothill League Vball Athletes

Matt Hank — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:55:43 +0000

Congratulations to all the ASAP athletes awarded Foothill League Honors. Check out the article in the Signal. Great job this season!

League MVP
Katie Hank – Valencia HS

First Team Selections
Nicole Delange – Valencia
Bree Earley – Valencia
Allison Toledo – Hart
Breena Beckett – Hart

Second Team Selections
Heidi Brown – Valencia
Casey David – Hart
Jennie Long – Hart

Honorable Mention
Anne Baker – Hart
Carly Carapella – Valencia

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