With the off-season workouts soon to begin and many injury issues that need to be addressed, I am wondering who will be leading the strength and conditioning program. We lost John Lott a few years ago and he was excellent. We were very fortunate to replace him with Paul. Markus Paul was on the strength and conditioning staff of the Pats during the Super Bowl run. He's very good. When I look at the team website, he's not mentioned. Rick Lyle is listed as the assistant strength and conditioning coach. Anyone have any info on markus Paul? Thanks.
I believe his name is Sal Alosi. and John Lott was fired a few weeks back by the Browns. I wonder if he will still do the weightlifting at the combine this year. He was hilarious last year.
ALOSI also qworked for us under MARKUS PAUL but is more in to lifting techniques which rely on explosive movements! he is a good teacher!
After a year with John Abraham, Alosi probably couldn't wait to get out of Atlanta. Surprised to hear about Markus Paul, I thought he was Mangini-guy. I'm sure Alosi will do a fine job. It'd be great if John Lott came back as an assistant, but I doubt it. "C'mon Meat push it out!" He was hilarious at the combines last year.
This is from last year when he was with the Falcons: http://www.atlantafalcons.com/team/article.jsp?id=10761 Off and running By Michael Oldham, Atlantafalcons.com February 2, 2006 Sal Alosi's phone won't stop ringing. Less than two weeks after being named the Falcons head strength and conditioning coach, Alosi has been working non-stop from his office adjacent to the Falcons strength training room, hurriedly preparing for the Falcons offseason program which begins in late March. The Long Island, NY native has hit the ground at a full sprint after being brought in by Jim Mora on January 25. His hiring, much like his current state of being, was a whirlwind affair. "Coach Mora called me up two Wednesdays ago," he recounted. "He said he was referred to me by a coach he coached with in San Francisco who he respects very much. "So he calls me up and says, 'Hey Sal -- It's Jim Mora from the Falcons.' 'What's up,' I said. 'Dan Quinn says you're a guy I need to talk to.' I said, 'Cool.' That was it. "Within a week of him calling me and touching base, I was hired." After breaking into the strength and conditioning field as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, Hofstra, the former collegiate linebacker got his first taste of the NFL and its approach to physical fitness with the New York Jets. Starting as an intern with the Jets strength and conditioning department in 2002, Alosi progressed each of his three seasons with the Jets, constantly gaining more responsibilities and honing his skills. "Each year I got more and more responsibilities up until last year when I was assistant director, so I had a lot more of a role in working with [Jets Director of Physical Development] Marcus [Paul], which was different than it was in the past. Markus treated viewed me as more of an equal and we split a lot of our everyday responsibilities." When the opportunity with the Falcons came available, Alosi felt more than ready to answer the call. "I think just about every year throughout my short professional career, I've always been walking that ladder," he emphasized. "Each year I've been given and earned more responsibilities and been doing more tasks and getting better as a coach. "This is just the next step for me." Taking the reigns of as the Falcons strength and conditioning coach at 28 years of age, Alosi becomes one of the youngest assistant coaches in NFL history. But the skeptics who look at his age and immediately question his ability to motivate and coach properly don't bother Alosi in the least. Far from it. "I don't think it's all about age," he smiled. "I think it's about how I relate to the players. I relate to the players extremely well. I'm in the mix with them and they like that. "I relate to them on a different level than most coaches do," he continued. "I get in there and I'm one of the guys. And they respond to that because, I'll be doing all the stuff with them." That's right: Alosi and his strength and conditioning crew will be participating in the workouts they design for the players, actually working out alongside the Falcons in the grueling offseason workouts in preparation for the 2006 season. "Whoever's on my staff, we will lift and run with the guys every day," he stated. "We'll lift once a day with one group, pick one group to lift with, but we'll be out there running with every group. So we've got to be in pretty good shape as a staff. "(The players) can't say, 'I'm tripping because we're doing all this running today.' I say, 'Yeah -- I'm doing it with you.' It's a different aspect of our job is that we can actually be involved. I think that helps." That approach stems from a lifelong affinity of physical conditioning, "This is something I've loved to do since I was a kid," he grinned. "I had the weight set in the garage my dad got me going on when I was young. "I've always enjoyed working out and lifting weights and finding the best ways to get stronger and faster. "When I was in college, we didn't have much of a strength program -- it was run by one of our assistant coaches," he continued. Even then we were always figuring out the best ways to do it. I've always had a passion for it. "The combination of football and strength training are my two passions. I have been extremely fortunate to be able to combine them." But it's more than just a physical pursuit of getting athletes in their peak shape. It's everything that goes into his profession that drives Alosi, that caught the eye of the Falcons, that separated Alosi from other potential candidates for their strength and conditioning coach. "Some guys in this field are part-time guys," he remarked. "They do it when it's comfortable to them. "I devote all my time and energy to this," he stressed. "I'm consumed by it." And when he says that, he means it. "There's not an evening where I'm not doing research," Alosi explained. "We do all our work here at the office, and then in the evening I've got to set aside at least an hour to do my research -- find out what's new, what's going on. "And that's just about every night," he continued. "I might relax on the weekend once in a while, but my job is constant research -- talking to other people, finding out what they're doing and what they're having success with so I don't make the same mistakes that someone else has already made." A tireless work ethic and an unmatched commitment to his craft has paid off for Sal Alosi and in turn, the Atlanta Falcons. And now that he he's firmly entrenched as the strength and conditioning coach of the Atlanta Falcons, what is his first order of business? You guessed it: revamp the weight room. "Right now we're working on making this weight room the best weight room in the National Football League," Alosi said. "We're going to get some newer stuff -- not that the stuff here is bad -- it's just that we're going to upgrade some stuff and get some newer things out there. "It's a combination of wanting to get the new stuff and changing it up for the guys." The Falcons strength training room is a mammoth of a space -- a 5,000-square foot rectangular on the lower level of Falcons headquarters, adjacent to the Falcons three regulation practice fields. Between now and the beginning of March, Alosi will oversee a significant renovation of everything from equipment to decor. "We're just going to change it up a little bit," Alosi elaborated. "We're going to get some new racks, get some new dumbbells in here, get some different machines for rehab-type movements and we'll upgrade our cardio area -- have a little more cardio with some treadmills and some Stairmasters and things like that." But cardio machines and weight platforms notwithstanding, there is still one great question surrounding the Falcons new strength man. One of great significance: What does a man who has spent every year of his life in the state of New York think about moving to the remote, north Georgia mountains? "I'm excited about it," he laughed. "I'm excited for the change. I've been in New York my whole life. But I'm definitely looking forward to a little change of pace. "Now, the city of Atlanta's not too far away if I'm looking for some city life, but there's no city like New York City."
Alosi is a really good S&C coach, but he became frustrated with the importance Herm placed on S&C, or lack thereof. Considering Mangini is the exact opposite, putting great importance on S&C, Alosi sounds like the perfect guy for the job.
I find it interesting that Paul was let go. Hopefully Alosi is an upgrade...although our players eemed healthy, in shape and strong under Paul...
