Gonna check in real  quick before I head out to Defrancos,

Wanted to talk about how some of the coaches run their evals.  I've been with Coach M through a few evals, he likes to work from the ground up.  He starts by looking at the athletes feet and working up from there.  A good video describing how important he thinks an athletes feet are can be seen here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9PraNgj9NU.  From here he tends to find issues with the hips, shoulders, etc. through having them perform simple motions like horizontal abduction of the shoulders, simple squats, lunges, among a few others.  From here he can prescribe certain warm ups or exercises designed to enhance their functionality of certain movements and work on certain weak points.  Another benefit is he finds out how the athletes learn; some are good audible listeners and pick things up quickly, some need to "feel" out a motion and perform it physically before they know how to really get it, and some need a lot of time and coaching to learn new exercises.  All different types of motor learning in the gym.

While Coach CJ is more of Coach M's mindset when it comes to programming and actual training sessions, his evals are different in that he just jumps right into a workout without a typical "eval session".  He sets up his warm up to get the athlete or client moving through simple motions like squats and certain skips.  He uses these exercise to see if the person has proper ankle mobility, hip mobility, shoulder, etc.  Also he pushes the pace a little quicker than usual to see where their conditioning is at.  I can appreciate this method in that its practical and quick and lets you see the athlete in action.

Coach P is a version of Coach M's eval session in that he checks the feet and works up from there.  He does a few things different from Coach M, but also includes simple exercise like band pull aparts and push ups.  Its pretty neat because he include me and actually ask me what I see with certain things.  He has an incredible eye for things like certain muscles firing incorrectly around the shoulder girdle or the athletes foot being slightly externally rotated.  I'm ok at it because of some physical therapy background but with his help I should get a lot better at it.

Gotta head out there now, I'll update with some videos and pics next time.

PS- Still waiting to hear back from WP baseball coach about helping out with the programming for the team.  We'll see where that goes.