NSCA COACHES CLINIC

At the NSCA Coaches Clinic I saw a very interesting piece of equipment - the link is below. Hope to get one or two , because I think could be very useful to develop lineman.
http://powerblaster.com/
Randy White was the keynote speaker and was very good and spoke quite a bit about the impact that martial arts did to help him develop. A link to the camps he holds is below.
http://randywhitebigmancamps.com/Default.aspx
Finally the UCONN coaching staff did a presentation with the topic of competition being the most interesting. I will try to upload the information about their competition set up soon.

TRACK AND FIELD COACHES CLINIC OF TEXAS

Steve McBride and the TTFCA did a wonderful job with their clinic this year. By far the best throws coach I have ever heard - Larry Howell from Rio Grande Valley spoke on both shot put and discus. The guy has been coaching throws for over 40 years and has many, many state champions. His wife had videos for $20 that was well worth it. If you ever get a chance to hear Coach Howell or get this video you need to.
http://ttfca.com/

GREAT MAGAZINE
If you havent had a chance to check out Power Magazine, Mark Bell and his crew do a great job.
http://thepowermagazine.com/

http://sites.google.com/site/oregonstrengthconditioning/home
Oregon Strength & Conditioning website link

Coach Radcliffe has been doing it a long time at a high level. Guru on plyometrics and developing athletes - key piece of Ducks doing so well. Great book and DVD to have

Oregon Lab YT.mov

UO Strength and Conditioning: "Bullets Over Bowling Balls: Sculpting the...

a small look at what the Ducks do to prepare to compete for championship

Back in action

Hard to believe it has almost been a year since have been active with the blog. A lot has happened in the past year.
This summer we had an outstanding Offensive Lineman Camp and coaches clinic and look forward to building on it each summer. Our Summer strength and conditioning camp has been one of the best I have been involved with. On average we have 45-55 male athletes and 12-20 female athletes that are working as hard as any group I have seen.
I hope to have some video footage up of our summer training soon. I finally broke down and got some battle ropes for our teams and have been very happy with them. Have read but not tried Jim Wendlers 5/3/1 and 5/3/1 for football.
I changed jobs and have had more fun in the past 4 months than I have the past five years. I am now Offensive Coordinator, OL, Head powerlifting and track coach. But what I have enjoyed the most and realized I missed is coordinating strength and conditioning for all sports.
One last note - will take some pictures and post of the 6 new half rack platforms we are getting for our weight room. I am a huge fan of Samson, however due to finances we went with Pro Maxima - will let you know how it turns out.

ITS ALMOST TIME FOR THE OFF SEASON

As many football teams seasons are coming to an end it is already time to start preparing for the 2010 season. For those that make the play offs - congratulations and best of luck! In the next few months I will begin to post with ideas and food for thought on how to best prepare for a great 2010 season.