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- [Man] Welcome to Ballin' with Brett,
your home for an inside look at Ole Miss Women's Hoops.
Here's your host, Brett Ball.
Hi fans, welcome back, I'm Brett Ball,
and I'm joined by special guest Ryan Grubbs,
our strength and conditioning coach.
So Ryan, tell us a little bit about yourself.
Where are you from and how did you
get involved with strength and conditioning training?
- Yeah, so I'm from Indianapolis Indiana,
and kind of how I got into it was I grew up
as a weight lifter, at a very young age
I had the privilege of learning under some great coaches.
(blows whistles)
Post, get off that line, come on, good.
I was an athlete all throughout high school
and a weight lifter at the same time,
so when I got into college, I had a couple injuries,
two shoulder surgeries, and so in college
I got into exercise science, did a lot of internships,
division two, division one, private setting.
And then it kind of just grew from there.
My start position is hand on the line.
So for me, I'm going right hand,
so my right foot will start back.
So right hand, timer starts on your first move.
(blows whistle) Get the arms going too.
So it's like you're running in place.
Good, post. (blows whistle)
Good, drive, drive the arms,
get the arms going, good.
- What has been your best experience prior to coming
to Ole Miss, throughout the internships and working?
- I think my best experience was just learning from all
the great coaches that I got to learn from.
Being in Indianapolis and growing up there,
I kind of had the opportunity
to be around a lot of great minds and some
of the best professionals that we have in the business.
Foot down hard, give me some good reps.
Guards, ready. (blows whistle)
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Good, done, 396, good job.
I think the best part of Ole Miss
is that there's a lot of great coaches.
Not only strength and conditioning coaches,
but just sport coaches, and the Ole Miss culture,
the Ole Miss staff is a very close-knit family,
and so everybody's kind of brought me in,
welcomed me in, and it's been a good experience so far.
- You talk about family, and how has it been working
with the girls and combining the different personalities
but also dividing them in groups
to which you can get the best work out of them?
- Sure, yeah, the girls have been great.
I didn't really know what to expect coming in.
- Excuse me.
- Hey, come here.
- This is an interview.
They can't beat me, what's up.
- I think they've embraced me well,
the team has worked extremely hard,
and the coaching staff here is great.
They support me 100%, and I think that's pretty crucial
to have as a strength and conditioning coach.
- What is your strength and conditioning philosophy,
or what are some of the core values
that you just harp on wherever you go?
- As far as the weight room is concerned,
we're gonna train on our feet.
So we're gonna use full body movements.
Like I said, I came up as a weight lifter,
and so the weight lifting movements
are gonna be a big part of our philosophy,
but it's not gonna be the only thing we do.
- We're rotating this way, so you're going
from agility to sprint, sprint to verts,
verts to the weight room,
and we'll rotate that way.
- [Woman] You Got 488.
- [Ryan] 480, good.
- Let me tell you something,
they's not messing with me.
- [Ryan] Good, Liz, you're up, let's go.
480, come on, you gotta get up, let's go.
Jump.
489.
- What in the world?
Hello, coming back.
- [Ryan] Down and up, jump.
489, top number.
525,
- [Woman] No, she stopped.
- (laughs excitedly) 525!
(laughing and shouting)
- It don't matter, it doesn't matter.
Then once we get out on the court,
we're just concerned with being fast,
being physical and being well conditioned.
So if I'm just gonna put my job on the line
for one attribute, it's gonna be
to have the fastest team on the court.
- We both know, obviously being former athletes,
that every day you don't come in wanting to do it.
There are gonna be some days where you're just tired
or stressed out for something.
How do you motivate the players
when they are maybe stressed out for something
and coming into the weight room,
how do you get them to get the best out of that workout?
- When we had our meeting, the team put together
some standards for themselves,
and so we post those standards in the weight room,
and that's something that they can kind of lean on
when they're not feeling like they want to train,
or feeling beat up, stuff like that.
And we have a good, strong group of senior leadership
on the team as well, girls that have been
in the program for a while, and so those younger girls
can kind of watch the way they do things
and then kind of lean on those older girls to get it done.
- Well Ryan, thank you so much for your time,
and welcome to Ole Miss.
- Thank you.
- Thank you guys for tuning in.
Until next time, Hotty Toddy.
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