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.

Agility drills for summer training

This video contains a poor man version of the landmine and reverse hypers. For those of you who have the budget to purchase the real thing - go for it! For those of you who do not have the budget I hope this helps provide ways to train these movements. For the landmine - I set the barbell in the corner of the weight tree. For Reverse Hypers I squeezed a medicine ball between my ankles for the first one, and wrapped a stretch band around ankles & DB for second one - and was laying on adjustable plyo box. You could also do these off of Hyper or Glute Ham machine as well.

Making summer workout efficient

A new video has been posted from a NSCA presentation. It includes some ways of working in speed mechanics and techniques while grouping with warm up and flexibility movements as well. May times young athletes will get bored with mechanic and technique work and will lose their focus quicker than normal. Hopefully pairing the movements will help maintain focus and be efficient during workouts. Also towards the end are some DB & BB complexes as well as ab routines. Hope this will help in your training as we gear up for summer training!

Westside Barbell Visit - Max Effort Lower

What a great trip to Westside Barbell! Louie Simmons hosted a seminar that included Paul Childress (University of Buffalo- S&C coach, John Sayer - expert in martial arts and Louie himself). Not only was their lectures regarding developing strength - best of all we got to see a maximum effort lower body workout in person. Box squats with 900+ are on the video as well as a 680+ female squat.

Response for row video

I received some good feedback on the row series video. Two key ideas that came out of it were; 1.) make sure and develop a solid base and master the technique of the basic 1 arm DB row and/or BB Bent row before worrying about changing every 2 weeks 2.) bring the elbow more towards the hip to better activate the back muscles
There is a video on my youtube channel that has some basic weigh training and ab exercises to help get females started.
Next weekend I will be going to West-side Barbell for their seminar and certification test - and I am sure I will have some great ideas to share.