Using the Clean and Jerk as Your In-Season Workout
The clean and jerk is the ideal in-season workout and designed to increase explosiveness. In our weight room, the clean and jerk is our lift during t…
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Targeting the core
To improve athletic performance, one of the most important muscles to train is the core. Most people think that a strong core is just having a define…
Building a Strength Program From the Ground Up "A Work in Progress"
I’ve been a strength coach, weight equipment entrepreneur and speaker for 30 years now, and I consistently get told by high school coaches, “I can ne…
DEVELOPING A SUCCESSFUL SUMMER STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING PROGRAM
Summer is the most critical time of the year to develop speed, strength, and explosiveness. Designing a summer strength and conditioning program for…
Slamming on the Brakes Part 2 Force Absorption Exercise Prescription
Specific exercises, including the use of plyometrics, will help your players decelerate more efficiently In the first part of this article, we discus…
Slamming on the Brakes Part 1 The Need for Deceleration Training
Slamming on the Brakes Part 1 The Need for Deceleration Training It happens all the time. We hear about the latest training ‘secret’ that a coach or…
Are Hamstring Injuries Preventable?
What causes hamstring injuries? Hamstring injuries in football are quite common and most often debilitating. Many great players have been sidelined b…
Head And Neck Training Exercises
Making head and neck training a priority is critical to the success of your strength program. There have been a lot of questions about concussions. W…
Should Football Players Perform Olympic Lifts?
The use of Olympic lifts in the training of football players is quite common. According to many coaches, these lifts are used mainly to develop explo…
IMPROVING YOUR STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING PROGRAM
There are many ways to improve your strength and conditioning program. Here you will learn what to include in your program, how to incorporate Olympi…
Exercises Specific to Tackling (Part II)
Note that most football strength training programs do not target specific skills. They are usually general in nature and target multiple joints, acti…
Training Your Athletes To Be In Peak Physical Condition
The main goal of our strength and conditioning program is to prepare our players for the physical demands of football. The athletes must possess acce…
Position- Specific Metabolic Skills Tree Summer Conditioning
When it is time to condition – be specific! As coaches, we tend to harp on every little detail. “Run this route at exactly 10 yards” or “Roll your hi…
Are You Effectively Working the Posterior Chain?
The concept of posterior chain development is popular among football strength coaches. In essence, it implies working the extensor muscles of the low…
Specialized Strength Training Exercises
Now is the time for specialized strength. If you’ve been following a periodization scheme in your training, the players should now have a well-develo…
Guidelines for Increasing Muscle Mass
The most frequently desired result from weight training is an increase in lean body mass. A gain in muscle mass is especially valuable in collision s…
Triple Extension Movements for Football Using Strongman Training
As a person watches the world’s strongest man contests on TV, what should appear obvious is that these athletes are not only aggressive, fast, explos…
How Do You Build Strength in Linebackers?
My general philosophy of preparing players for competition in the game of football is that the game is played with the hips. To build strength in the…