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Title. Strength and Conditioning Coach. Sports: MBB. Email. knightt@gonzaga.edu. Phone. 509-313-4099. Footer. © 2024 Gonzaga University Athletics.
- Thought Process
- Program Design
- In The Weight Room
- On The Rebound
- Frame of Mind
- Starting Point
It’s important for me to say up front that I don’t think of myself as a “strength coach.” Although that is my title, and I have been in the business for almost 20 years, I have always felt differently than my peers about the way training should be. Contrary to what many of my colleagues follow, my overall philosophy for strength and conditioning wo...
We begin our pursuit of this objective by establishing goals. Most strength and conditioning programs do this with baseline testing, and we used to be the same. When I first started at Gonzaga, I continued the “decathlon” test battery that the basketball program had followed since before the recent run of NCAA Tournament appearances. The decathlon ...
Our players may have a great deal of control over what they do in the weight room, but one thing we always emphasize is ground reaction force. The ground reaction forces that basketball players generate can reach nearly 10 times their bodyweight when they make a full speed vertical jump or hit the brakes and change direction when driving to the bas...
We complement our strength and conditioning work by ensuring that our players recover well. Our athletic trainer is great at helping each guy figure out what works best for him. It doesn’t hurt that we have a number of tools at our disposal. This includes both hot and cold tubs, negative gravity recliners with recovery pants and heat/massage, and s...
We work just as hard at developing players’ minds as we do their bodies. Over the years, I have moved steadily in the direction of focusing more on the mental side of performance. After working with many athletes and watching them both succeed and fail, I’ve realized the defining variable in optimal performance has been their mental approach. Physi...
Below are sample lower-body templates that Gonzaga University men’s basketball players can use to build their own workouts. Each template is then tailored to each player’s needs. Option No. 1 1. Dead lift, 5×3. 2. Box jump to lock, 4×4 each. 3. Nordic hamstring, 3×5. 4. Keiser box step-up, 3×8 each. 5. Keiser rapid-fire four-way hip, 3×10 each. 6. ...
Mar 22, 2021 · Early into the 2020–21 college basketball season, Travis Knight gathered the undefeated Gonzaga men’s basketball team together on a Monday. Knight is, by business card at least, the Zags'...
Mar 6, 2020 · Travis Knight, left, and Mike Nilson - Gonzaga basketball's strength and conditioning coaches. March 06, 2020. |. Jeff Bunch ('92) Share Story. Cura personalis – care for the whole person – is deeply Jesuit and manifests itself in myriad ways at Gonzaga University, including in its top-ranked athletics programs.
Jun 29, 2020 · Travis Knight is a master at creating learning environments in the weight room. He’s got a unique perspective on basketball strength & conditioning, combining complex systems and motor learning theory with vision and mindset training. Travis and I were classmates at Gonzaga back in the 90’s and have worked together professionally since 2006.
Mar 29, 2024 · The outside noise was louder than ever. But Personal Growth Monday is a weekly session headed by trainer Travis Knight and assistant coach and former player JP Batista, one that players attend...
Apr 5, 2021 · Gonzaga Men’s Basketball Strength Coach, Travis Knight, joined us to share how Brett has helped create his weekly Personal Growth Monday meetings with the team. Here are some of the questions I asked Brett: What is intrinsic motivation and can you foster it? What is a coach’s role in personal growth of their players?
