Performance Trainer David Donatucci on Starting Small and Scaling Up

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Episode Summary We're joined by David Donatucci, former Director of Fitness for the PGA of America. David has a long history working with athletes of all ages and abilities and he shares some straightforward and easy to follow advice about strength, conditioning and mobility training. "Hip stability, shoulder stability, and abdominal strength are the three main areas that I'm going to approach and attack really with any sport. You need good hips. You need good abdominal stability. You need good shoulders to build your scapular stability, to hold everything in place."

Show Notes

(2:38) Arise Center, the great opportunities and the challenges…

(4:37) The impact of Covid…

(8:44) “With every challenge comes a change, and sometimes change is for the better.”

(10:28) Two avenues of keeping athletes in their routines…

(13:11) Appreciating the complimentary training aspects…

(19:33) “Go carry your bag and walk 18 holes, sometimes 36 in the same day, because that's the only type of conditioning that's going to basically be able to correlate to you doing the same thing while you're out playing four or five days in a row.”

(21:46) How to first approach training with a new athlete and the three main areas of attention…

(25:33) Goals frame the benefits of strength and mobility training…

(27:47) “If the trainer's not doing some sort of an assessment or some kind of evaluation, find another guy, find another girl.”

(30:18) Keep goals attainable and have a plan…

(32:42) “I think the biggest thing is that people have the misconception on really how hard professional athletes train.”

(34:30) There’s nothing new… so get back to the basics…

(37:35) Losing attention span after an hour in the gym…

(42:04) Minimize downtime...

References:

Arise Center for Athletic Development - homepage

Guest:

David Donatucci - website | LinkedIn | Twitter