USD Baseball 2008

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE TRAINING

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University of San Diego student-athletes receive elite • coaching from their strength and conditioning staff in one of • the premier weight rooms on the West Coast. With 5,000 square " feet of floor space (plus an additional 1,600 square feet of turf), " 16 all inclusive lifting stations and approximately 20,000 pounds .. of free weights, multiple teams can be simultaneously coached in a comprehensive strength and conditioning development program. Medicine balls, dumbbells, gymnastics rings and vari– ous pullup stations are used to enhance the training provided for all 16 of USD's varsity sports. The USD strength staff advocates the use of ground based, multi-joint, explosive free weight exercises in the training of student-athletes. USD teams

are taught the clean and jerk,snatch,squats,deadlift and the various barbell and dumbbell variations. By using the exercises, in com– bination with intense effort, we believe USD student-athletes will be well prepared to meet every physical challenge put to them in competition.