University of Richmond Athletics
Bodies By Brincks
07/28/2017 | Football
By the time the FCS playoffs rolled around last fall, the injury list for the University of Richmond football team was almost as long as a CVS receipt.
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With nearly 20 season-ending injuries, adversity was the middle name for the 2016 Spiders.
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Entering this fall, Richmond has a clean bill of health and a new approach to strength & conditioning to the credit of new strength coach Scott Brincks.
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"When we arrived here, it was very obvious to me that this was a group of incredibly strong young men who had worked hard prior to our arrival," Brincks said. "Our job was to get them prepared to endure the ways we want to play."
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With a bit more of a focus on athleticism and speed, both on the offense and defensive side of the ball, Brincks went to work conditioning the Spiders over the summer to increase their stamina, balance and flexibility.
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It's a system Brincks had a high-level of success with at Chattanooga for nearly 15 years, where he oversaw the strength department in a time when the Mocs won 40 championships as a department.
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"We have a system that we believe in and that we've had success with," Brincks said. "There are lots of different ways of handling strength and conditioning and you can have a lot of success with a lot of those different ways. I've been fortunate now to have a long relationship with Coach Huesman and most of this staff, so I know the way we are going to want to play and I know the type of movements and strength that our guys need to be prepared for."
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Part of that system includes stamina and injury prevention, two things that will be critical to the Spiders'' success this fall.
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"Injuries are going to happen in football, it's a part of the game," Brincks said. "There's nothing I can do in the weight room that will completely eliminate injuries. But there are things that I believe in and do that lower the percentage of having some of those injuries occur."
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With nearly 20 season-ending injuries, adversity was the middle name for the 2016 Spiders.
Â
Entering this fall, Richmond has a clean bill of health and a new approach to strength & conditioning to the credit of new strength coach Scott Brincks.
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"When we arrived here, it was very obvious to me that this was a group of incredibly strong young men who had worked hard prior to our arrival," Brincks said. "Our job was to get them prepared to endure the ways we want to play."
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With a bit more of a focus on athleticism and speed, both on the offense and defensive side of the ball, Brincks went to work conditioning the Spiders over the summer to increase their stamina, balance and flexibility.
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It's a system Brincks had a high-level of success with at Chattanooga for nearly 15 years, where he oversaw the strength department in a time when the Mocs won 40 championships as a department.
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"We have a system that we believe in and that we've had success with," Brincks said. "There are lots of different ways of handling strength and conditioning and you can have a lot of success with a lot of those different ways. I've been fortunate now to have a long relationship with Coach Huesman and most of this staff, so I know the way we are going to want to play and I know the type of movements and strength that our guys need to be prepared for."
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Part of that system includes stamina and injury prevention, two things that will be critical to the Spiders'' success this fall.
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"Injuries are going to happen in football, it's a part of the game," Brincks said. "There's nothing I can do in the weight room that will completely eliminate injuries. But there are things that I believe in and do that lower the percentage of having some of those injuries occur."
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