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Aug 2024
1h 18m

424: Rick Franzblau on Strength Mechanic...

Joel Smith, Just-Fly-Sports.com
About this episode
This week’s guest is Rick Franzblau, Assistant AD for Olympic Sports Performance at Clemson University. Rick has a tremendous understanding of athletic movement, both from the technology and biomechanical aspects of the human movement equation. He has worked with a wide variety of sports and athletic movement patterns and has a unique understanding of the sp ... Show More
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