Athlete of The Month August '08

Athlete of the Month

This Month's Athlete is Orangewood Volleyball Player Erin Anderson. Erin came to us from another facility after not getting the results they promised her. She has shown great improvement in the weight room along with her on court performance. Erin has just started DTS a month ago and has already "seen improvements in her jumping and hitting power". Erin told us she "noticed the difference in the first week"! She has taken her trap bar deadlift from 95lbs. for 5 reps to 185lbs. for 5 reps in less than a month! We feel the trap bar is a great tool to help increase vertical jump because of the proper musculature developed. We can't wait to see her improvement even more as she plans to train during her high school season as every smart athlete should do to maintain strength, increase flexibility and injury prevention.

Summer Recap '08

Although we have a huge following with high school and collegiate athletes parents are seeing the benefits of starting their mighty might athletes sooner! We have witnessed some pretty amazing results from our young athletes.


Matt D. started training with us a few months back and his father was very concerned about his speed and wondered a little why we wouldn't do specific speed training with his son immediately. After his father listened to our approach he was ready to see results! After Matt developed a good base of relative body strength we eased him into our deceleration and acceleration program and the results were amazing!



Matt's football team tested 40 yard dashes the first day of practice and Matt was the fastest kid! Not to mention jumped a 36" Box Jump along with a 19" Vertical Jump at our facility!! To say the training paid off is an understatement. Matt also convinced his Dad to have him stay in our program even through the football season! Makes me wonder about all the High School kids who say they don't have enough time.



Not bad for a 12 year old!


Derrick Z. has been working hard as well increasing his strength, power, speed and flexibility he also has jumped on a 36" plyo box (video below) with a 21" Vertical Jump with little weight training yet increasing his athleticsm and self esteem.




*Just a side note Derrick's older brother Mitchell has packed on over 15lbs. of muscle!

Last kid, I want to mention is Jared Bernhardt a.k.a. Baby Bernhardt who walked in our gym with his brothers Jake and Jesse (Lacrosse All-Americans) and bet me he could bust out 12 chin-ups! I of course didn't believe him so he walked over to the 2" thick pull-up bar and busted out 10! If we had a skinny bar I'm pretty sure he could have done 5 more! After that we tested his Vertical Jump and he jumped a 19" Vertical jump, to say I couldn't believe it is an understatement the family are truly genetic freaks!

Cytosport Awarded NSF Certification

We have had some questions from parents about our products so we wanted to educate everyone on the safety of our product we provide for our athletes.

Benicia, CA – CytoSport, Inc., the makers of Muscle Milk, announced today that it has achieved Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Registration through NSF International’s Dietary Supplements Certification Program. CytoSport successfully met all listing criteria in NSF’s NSF/ANSI Standard 173 - Dietary Supplement, the only standard for dietary supplements. CytoSport manufactures a complete line of nutritional supplements and functional beverages for athletes and active lifestyle individuals. In accordance with NSF/ANSI 173, NSF conducted a plant audit at the CytoSport Benicia facility to verify conformance with GMP’s and will conduct periodic audits to verify continued conformance. Good Manufacturing Practices for the current NSF Dietary Supplement Programs are based on industry recommended GMP’s. The NSF Certification Mark will appear in CytoSport marketing material, advertisements and on their website as verification that they have met all program requirements. “By obtaining GMP Registration, CytoSport has taken the initiative to demonstrate to their customers their commitment to producing safer, higher-quality products,” said David Abney, General Manager, NSF Dietary Supplements and Functional Foods Certification Programs. “We have always believed in the importance of ensuring the identity, purity, quality, strength and composition of our products,” said Michael Pickett, COO. “Our objective is to satisfy consumer needs with superior product quality, efficacy and reliability.” About NSF: NSF International helps protect consumers by certifying products and writing standards for food water and consumer goods. As an independent, not-for-profit organization, our ongoing public health commitment is to encourage everyone to live safer.

New Blood Summer Recap '08

Every summer we train more and more college football players and trust me I'm not complaining! However there are always a few who surprise the hell out of me with hard work and dedication even with extreme time constraints. This summer was no exception with Wake Forest fullback Kevin Harris and Notre Dame's All American defensive tackle Ian Williams.

Ian was only able to train with us for a month but this kid trained hard, listened, did everything we asked of him and always on time even though he did not have consistent transportation.

Read more about Ian here: http://und.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/010808aac.html

Ian hit a below parallel box squat with the cambered bar for 1 rep with 525lbs. but his limiting factor was definitely conditioning and flexibility and well, Ian could tell you we took care of that.
Here he is below performing some backward sled pulls.

Look out for Ian this year we wish him luck and his best season yet. Oh yeah, he's only going to be a sophomore!!!


Kevin came to us with some extreme flexibility, strength and conditioning issues throughout his whole body but what was worse was the fact he still did not have full range of motion in his wrist after a surgery last football season. This to us was crucial if he couldn't be 100% how was he suppose to help his team? With a lot of rehab work we were able to help Kevin come back and actual helped him hit a personal goal of his to get back to benching 405lbs. Which he did! Kevin also brought up some severe weaknesses that really helped him become that total athlete he was looking to become.

Below is Kevin hitting his 405lb. bench along with a video of Kevin performing plyo push-ups off 6 inch boxes.

What wrist problem?

Girls Volleyball Summer Recap '08

Coming back from an ankle injury Olivia Partin used to have a vertical jump at 19" after this summer she has gone from 19" to 24"! Below is a pic of Olivia performing Romanian deadlifts to strengthen her hamstrings and lower back some of they key musculature to improving the vertical jump.

Lizzy Leopre joined Davis Training Systems this summer in hopes of increasing her vertical jump for her college season this year. Besides increasing her vertical jump she has gained lower and upper body strength along with increasing flexibility. Even though she had a busy schedule this summer she didn't make excuses and found the time to train with us twice a week for 6 weeks.

Before Lizzy started with us she jumped a 20" Vertical Jump. The last day of training she tested at 24". That's 4" improvement in 6 weeks!!

Pictured below is Lizzy doing kettlebell work for her Vertical Jump Complex!

After taking sometime off with training Leah Rogers came back this summer to gain back what she lost along with setting some new records for herself going into her high school volleyball season.

Leah went from 23" Vertical Jump this summer to a 30"

Usually we will never box jump for height with a volleyball player but Leah wanted to break our female gym record in the box jump for high school athletes. This record was set previously by Olympic weightlifter Kari Huang with a 37" box jump. Below is Leah jumping on a 40" Plyo Box.

NCAA Verbal Commitments for 2009

We have 2 athletes who have already verbally committed to College for their given sport for next year! We are proud to say we are the only facility who have athletes already verbally committed for 2009!

Jesse Bernhardt - University of Maryland (Lacrosse)

Demi Thompson - University of South Florida (Football)

Summer Recap of NCAA Signees for '08

I first want to congratulate all 20 DTS athletes off to college. They have all worked hard and we can't wait to hear more about them and how they do. Stay tuned for updates! I would also like to point out once again this shows why we are the go to place for enhancing athletic performance!

Jake Bernhardt - University of Maryland (Lacrosse)

Branden Snyder - Lees-McRae College (Lacrosse)

Mitch McGrath - Furman University (Football)

Josh Linam - University of Central Florida (Football)

Jeremy Francis - Oregon State University (Football)

Alex Starky - Western Michigan University (Football)

Chris Perry - Troy University(Football)

Jake Ciccarello - University of Albany(Football)

Jared Pizzuti - Florida Atlantic University (Football)

David Bourget - Endicott College (Tennis)

Alex Smith - Lehigh University (Fooball)

Kevin Halverson - Jacksonville University (Football)

Colin Newton - Lehigh University(Football)

Taylor Beasley - Southern Illinois University (Football)

Nathan Keller - Jacksonville University (Football)

Jay Comas - Wagner College (Football)

Justin Brockhaus-Kann - University of South Florida (Football)

Scott Crumbly - Iona College (Football)

Tarvis Gordon - Iowa Wesleyan College (Football)

Monster Milk

Cytosport the makers of Muscle Milk have a latest edition to their protein line… Monster Milk! This is an ideal protein for the in-season football player who needs extra calories.

Luke Cherry at Cytosport was nice enough to hook us up with the three flavors they have developed.

• Chocolate


• Vanilla


• Strawberry

This stuff is really monster with an awesome taste! Some of our athletes have already gained 5lbs. of muscle in 1 week!

Here's what you can expect in every serving:

Serving Size: 2 scoops

Servings per container: 12

Amount per Serving:
Calories: 350

Calories from fat: 80

Total Fat: 9g

Total Carbohydrates: 17g

Protein: 50g

If you are a client of Davis Training Systems we now have it available.

If not and you want to purchase it go here:

http://www.cytosport.com/Product.aspx?ProductID=33

Either way YOU have to get Monster Milk!