NEW EXERCISE / GREAT BLOG

At the NFL Experience - Under Armour had a big set up and saw an exercise with a rope and bands that I had not seen. I really liked it and hope to get 4 of them set up soon. When I got home I looked up there info on the website below. Not sure I will ever want to pay the over $1,000 to become a certified tester/trainer. Great thing about using Sparq was that it didn't cost anything - of course you kind of get what you pay for, they haven't replied to an email in about a year and seemed to have fallen off the face of the Earth.
http://www.combine360.com/

Found a short rope for what seemed like a reasonable price at Rogue Fitness. When I was in Abilene for clinic and stopped by ACU, they had quite a bit of Rogue equipment - this will be my first order from them.
http://www.roguefitness.com/conditioning-ropes.php

There were a couple of other movements from the UA site that we are gonna put at the end of workouts for challenges - gonna post link below - I'm still trying to figure out how to put multiple videos in a single blog post

Here are two using a BOSU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRtPmeiWGBw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SHatZ-ykGQ&feature=player_embedded
Here is one with heavy rope - figured if was buying for the pulls needed to find something else to use for
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HQ5UBIZEls&feature=player_embedded

Ran across an amazing blog - link below
http://www.benbruno.blogspot.com/

TUNCH PUNCH / BUDDY MORRIS

We are getting a tunch punch ladder. Went to Abilene a couple of weeks ago for Air Raid/3-3 Clinic that McMurry University put on. Which by the way was an excellent clinic. Matt Mumme put on a very nice clinic. McMurry has to have one of the best and most experienced staffs in Division 3 football. Hal Mumme running the air raid and Joe Lee Dunn running the 3-3 stack. Neal Brown (OC at Texas Tech) also had a great lecture that included screen-run combos and there option play out of trips. While I was in town I also stopped by Hardin Simmons (which does put out some of the brightest minds in the world). They had a tunch punch ladder so I messed around with it a while and started liking it more and more. Jesse Burleson who is now the head coach at HSU and will still coach OL was talking it up. You can get a 9 foot 3 man tunch punch from Rae Crowther for right at $800.00 including shipping.
Will let you know how we implement it into off season after we get it.
Then I started looking at Tom Myslanski performing the drills for Tunch Ilkin in the video - which got me looking at some Buddy Morris information also.
Got some time with the great weather we are having in Dallas so will blog about some Buddy Morris stuff and what I saw at the NFL Experience went to last week with my son.
Below is link to Rae Crowther and the Tunch Punch ladder
http://www.raecrowther.com/tunch06.shtml

5/3/1 RESULTS
AVERAGE CLEAN GAIN = 19
AVERAGE SQUAT GAIN = 25
AVERAGE BENCH GAIN = 16
AVERAGE VERTICAL GAIN = 1 INCH

• This was after 7 weeks of training - instead of downloading week 8 we tested (since we start track and field next week)
• The 2nd cycle based lifts off of 95% instead of 90% - felt the number of reps the kids were getting on the last set was extremely high
• Was glad to gain an inch on vertical without any plyometrics
• used the 4 day split
• Biggest gain on bench was 40lbs, biggest gain on squat was 45 (depth was better post than pre test), biggest gain on clean was 35, biggest gain on vertical was 3 inches
• 34 players tested pre and post

Link to Jim Wendlers 5/3/1 E-books

http://www.flexcart.com/members/elitefts/default.asp?cid=370&m=PD&pid=2976

http://www.flexcart.com/members/elitefts/default.asp?cid=370&m=PD&pid=3362

Link to Jim Wendlers youtube

http://www.youtube.com/user/JimWendler

LINEMAN TRAINING VIDEO FINALLY DONE

This has taken me quite a while to put together. Made a few attempts on my own and posted some of the video on youtube channell. Finally decided to work with Championship Productions and they did a great job of putting together a video that I feel will really help develop lineman during the off season and summer.

Link below should take you to championship productions
http://www.championshipproductions.com/cgi-bin/champ/p/Football/Off-Season-Training-Drills-Workouts-for-Offensive-Linemen_FD-03685.html

If you get the video let me know what you think, hope to do some more videos with Championship in the future and your feedback will be appreciated.

Power Train Sports

STEELERS AT WORK

SOME BEHIND THE SCENES OF TOP 2 NFL TEAMS STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING

PITTSBURGH
http://www.mensfitness.com/fitness/441?print=1
GREEN BAY
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/ic/blogs/insider/2010/03/mark-lovat-meets-media.html
AJ HAWK LOVE OF THE WEIGHTROOM ARTICLE
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/53080772.html

wrote an article for elitefitness.com (link below) here are some resources that correspond to the information in the article - hope you are able to see them
I am trying to figure out how to download word/excel/powerpoint documents to blog - if you know how please email me or leave comment
http://articles.elitefts.com/articles/sports-training/three-ways-to-break-up-the-monotony-of-off-season/
Also if you dont use elite fitness as resource for great information and equipemnt you need to check it out
http://www.elitefts.com/