Good insight into the Oregon State Strength & Conditioning program written by Gina Mizell. Head strength & conditioning coach of the Beavers Evan Simon will be a guest on the Elitefts™ Sports Performance Podcast this week.
Enough to finish his set, Ortiz says with his legs as his knees bend one more time. As the Beavers fullback resets the bar, Evan Simon is also nearby. OSU's new head strength and conditioning coach is monitoring and critiquing and jogging -- never walking -- as he moves throughout the Sports Performance Center less than an hour after sunrise on this Thursday morning.
The uniforms for these workouts are orange shirts (for offensive players) or black ones (for defensive players) with the motto "Respect the Process" printed on the back. Because these workouts represent Step 1.
"The main thing we're trying to accomplish is to set the standard for the Coach Andersen era," Simon said. " ... What I told the guys is what we do, it's like a house, and strength's the foundation of that house. The foundation only needs to be so big, but it needs to be so strong, as well.
"Right now, we're laying the foundation of an Evan Simon strength program, a Gary Andersen football program, so these things can grow and flourish and be based on a strong foundation moving forward."
Simon and Andersen go back to their days at Utah, when Andersen was defensive coordinator and Simon was the associate director of strength and conditioning. When Andersen was hired as head coach at Utah State, he brought Simon along as director of strength and conditioning. Simon then followed Andersen to Wisconsin, and now OSU.
So Simon sees himself as an extension of Andersen's on-field product, providing physical and mental preparation for the practices and games to come. And this phase of the year-round "process" is built around the concept of "BTA," or Beavers Team Accountability.
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Source: www.oregonlive.com