Performance Trainer David Donatucci on Starting Small and Scaling Up

Fueling The Pursuit

"We need to improve her overall strength. Hip stability, her shoulder stability, and her abdominal strength are the three main areas that I'm going to approach and attack. And really with any sport, I'm going to go with those three main areas. You need good hips. You need good abdominal stability. You need good shoulders to build your scapular stability, to hold everything in place."

Today's guest is David Donatucci, the General Manager of Arise Center for Athletic Development in Jupiter, Florida

David has a long history working with athletes of all ages and abilities and he shares some straightforward and easy to follow advice in our conversation with him today. I loved how simple his approach is to strength, conditioning and mobility training. He shares helpful tips on the benefits of incorporating strength training into your current fitness routine and he drives home the benefits of these tips with some entertaining stories from different athletes he’s worked with in the past.

Timestamped 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 |

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