5 Steps to Building Insane Explosive Football Strength and Speed

Guest Post By Coach Steve Morris

The world of football training is in a sad state of affairs.  A downturn, if you will.

See, a lot of programs I see on the internet promise explosive football strength, but, very few deliver. Unfortunately for us football players, most of the workouts and programs are written by some 170-lb personal trainer (who no doubt couldn’t make the team in high school). They come up with these odd programs filled with high volume, stability balls, “core” work and lots of cool, new-age exercises they learned at the latest ACE certification clinic.

Last summer, the football training world hit rock bottom. In a Google search for “football training” one of the top results was a football strength workout written by a trainer from Bally’s and listed on the fraud gym’s website.

What I saw damn near made me vomit with rage. Essentially, everything was 3 x 8, eventually working your way down to 4 reps (strength work, I suppose). It was a horrid combination of the old bodybuilding stand-by sets and reps meeting weenie-personal-trainer inspired Western Periodization.

This sad state of affairs is unnecessary. There’s around 180,000 websites with some sort of football strength training info, and, honestly, about 179,995 of them are total trash. Obviously, Elliot’s site is packed with awesome football training info, and I go out of my way to make sure my site is as well. Maybe it’s because we both actually played the game and know what it takes to excel?

Despite the almost unlimited fountains of misinformation parading as strength training sites confusing players, there is hope. Getting stronger, faster and more explosive for football is actually not that complicated. It’s gut-busting hard work, but it’s not really rocket science. True football training will build your body, mind and character and you will become a better man for having lived through it.

How do you actually go about getting stronger and more explosive?

Glad you asked.

Here are 5 easy steps to building insane explosive football strength and speed.

1. Do Max Effort Work

Make no mistake about it, unless you are strong, you will not be a great football player. Strength dictates all other aspects of athleticism (speed, agility, explosiveness, etc). The stronger football player will almost always win.

This confuses most people. They assume that you don’t need to be super strong to be a great football player. They also fail to see the correlation between strength and speed (we’ll cover that in #2).

Now, a lot of players do accept this but go about it in the wrong way. I get countless emails from people asking me to evaluate their programs. Usually, they’re working hard but not getting the results they want. And, usually it’s because they are confused about how to actually get stronger.

We’ve been conditioned to think that doing sets of 4 - 6 and simply adding 5lbs to the bar every week is getting stronger. It’s not.

First, you’re not building maximum strength.

Second, you will plateau rather quickly. If we all added 5-lbs a week forever, guys would be benching 5,000lbs.

You must work with low reps, yes, even as low as singles, to build raw, max strength.

I know, “low reps are dangerous!” Bull. High reps are more dangerous. Ever watch someone do a set of 10 in the Squat? Reps 7 - 10 are ragged, they twist, their knees pinch in, and they use way too much back. The more reps you do, the more fatigued you will become and the worse your form will get.

If you’re a beginner or you train beginners, and you still fear the single, do multiple sets of 2 or work up to a max set of 2 - 3. This will build top end strength. And, for those of you who feel you need to do higher reps, think of it this way; you’re max bench is 200lbs and you can do sets of 8 with 150. You smarten up, decide to get stronger, push your max up to 250 and suddenly find that you can now do sets of 8 with 200. Which is better? 150 x 8 or 200 x 8?

And, before you get excited, it doesn’t work the opposite way. As many a disappointed “projected-max” following football player will tell you, focusing on increasing your weight on high reps sets has nothing to do with your max strength.

So, you need to do Max Effort work. You need to “work up to” a heavy set of 1 - 3 reps, constantly trying to beat your previous records.

Working up is simple, so stop over thinking it.

It should take 5 - 8 sets; depending on your strength (obviously a 600-lb bencher will need more sets than a guy pushin’ 150).

Do this:

Bar x 5
95 x 3
125 x 3
135 x 3
155 x 3
175 x 3

Next time, beat 155. I know, there’s barely any volume, how are can this make you stronger? Rest assured, most top power lifters, the strongest guys on Earth, use a similar approach.

Lead off one Upper Body day and one Lower Body day with a Max Effort exercise. Stick to big, compound movements like Bench, Incline, Deadlifts, Box Squats, etc.

2. Maximum Force to the Bar

If there is one area of football training, and, strength training in general that confuses people and fuels the fringe, anti-strength idiots it’s the subject of bar speed. The HIT Jedis, the personal training crowd, the CrossFit Cults and the Wobble Board Wrecking Crews all have done a great job teaching young football players and lifters that lifting heavy will make you slow. “Just look at that big, fat Powerlifter Squatting 800-lbs! He’s moving slow, and if you get strong, you’ll be slow too!”

Much better to do Indian Club Juggling Front Squats on a Swiss ball, eh?
What they miss is the intent to move the bar fast that counts. This might be the simplest concept in strength training yet so many miss it. Just try to lift the bar as fast as possible, every set, every rep, every exercise.

You need to train your Central Nervous System to act fast. When it gets the message that we need to move several hundred pounds quickly, it can easily figure out to move just your bodyweight pretty damn fast. Try lifting a heavy weight slowly and see what happens.

When I get high school players telling me they were taught to lift the bar with a 4 seconds up and 3 seconds down bar speed, my head explodes. They wonder why they can’t get faster! Well, they just spent an entire off-season teaching their brain, body and muscles to be slow, what else would you expect.

Dave Tate wrote something to the effect of, “Warm up sets should feel like maxes and maxes should feel like warm up sets.” That, my friends, does a hell of a job summing it up.

Every set, every rep, every exercise…lift the bar like you’re trying to throw it off of you because it’s about to crush you and end your existence. That’s good motivation to get the bar moving.

3. Posterior Chain

If you want to get faster for football, be able to drive a defender into the stands, or run people over, you need to work your posterior chain like your life depends on it. Your hamstrings, glutes, calfs, and all the muscles of the back must be hammered, often.

I don’t blame young players for training the beach muscles. They don’t know any better and that’s where you’ll notice progress the quickest. But, for coaches and writers who over-promote “bodybuilding” style programs, there’s no excuse.

You need to center your program around:

Box Squats
Box Front Squats
Deadlifts
Cleans
Deadlifting of odd objects (sandbags, stones, etc)
Snatch Grip Deadlifts
Romanian Deadlifts
Squats and Front Squats (regular, no box)
Lateral Lunges

If you focus your efforts on those exercises, you will be miles ahead of the competition. Do them heavy, lift them fast, and do them often.

4. Build Transitional Power

Another place where many football strength programs fall short is in the area of transitioning weight room strength into on the football field power.

There are plenty of big, strong dudes who stink up the collective football fields of the world every year. Sometimes it’s because they are just dumb or hopelessly unathletic. More often, it’s because they lifted hard but never took the steps needed to transfer power from the gym to the field.

The two quickest ways to do this are:

Using a modified Dynamic (Speed) Training method
Using a simple Plyometric program

Dynamic training is simply lifting a sub-maximal weight as fast as possible. Typically, this would be 50 - 60% of your max. This is done for leg training exercises like Squats and Box Squats.

Because the body has a built-in protective mechanism, simply lifting a lighter bar has its limitations because the body will slow you down as you reach lock-out. To get around this we need to “accommodate resistance.” This is done by adding bands, chains, or weight releasers to the bar so that as you lift it, it actually gets heavier. In this case, you must continue to accelerate all the way through lockout but you over-ride the body’s instinct to slow down because, again, the bar will move a bit slower despite your intent to move it quickly.

Bands can be a bit extreme for the beginner and hard to set up, so your best bet is to use chains. EliteFTS.com has good ones. By training in this way, you teach the body to have speed and power at every joint angle. See, when we lift, we often over-train the bottom portion and under-train the top, since we are weakest at the bottom of a lift and strongest toward the top.

Chains gather on the ground at the bottom of the lift, and begin to come off the ground as you lift the bar, actually increasing the weight progressively as you near completion.

This can not only make us weaker but it can teach the CNS bad habits. Think of your body position when you start to explode through a tackle…it’s a lot like the last 1/3 of a squat. Why would you want that area to be weaker than necessary?

Plus, it teaches acceleration. Your body is forced to accelerate through the entire movement, rather than slowing down as most do naturally.

The next step in transitioning power is to use a simple plyo program. I do mean simple.

People have this weird fascination with plyometrics. I don’t know if it’s the old “if it’s Russian and secret, it must be awesome!” school of thought or because every commercial for overpriced spandex shows guys jumping around on boxes. Either way, people have managed to take a highly effective training tool and pervert it.

Plyometrics, by definition, are exercises that allow the muscle to reach maximum strength in as short a period of time as possible.1 Re-read that and think of its applications to
football training! That’s what it’s all about. Producing as much force as possible, as fast
as possible. This is what makes them so great at teaching the transfer of strength to the field.

Remember, Force is Mass x Acceleration. Your mass x your acceleration = big plays and big hits…

Plyos are great, but you must start slowly. Guys read an article about plyos and start doing depth jumps off the roof of their house. Don’t be that guy. Start off with something as basic as a Box Jump.

Stand in front of a box, dip quickly and leap onto the box. Step down and repeat.

The next step would be Multiple Box Jumps. Excellent exercise, but this is where guys start going wrong.

When you do multiple Box Jumps, you must absolutely focus on spending almost no time on the ground. Jump, step off, hit the ground and immediately jump to the next box. Too much ground time will make you slower!

When you first start just keep it simple. 3 - 4 sets of 5 jumps before your heavy leg work is plenty. Concentrate on speed and explosiveness and minimizing ground time.

Between the Dynamic Training and the Plyos you’ll be well on your way to taking all of your new-found strength and size and turning it into useable power to mow down your competition on the field…that is the point of all this training.

5. Fix Strength Gaps

Even with all the Max Effort, Dynamic Effort, chains and plyos, you can still fail to reach maximum potential. Don’t get me wrong, those things are the foundation of training and doing them will take you far. But, I know the guys who read this site and the guys I train are not interested in just being good…we want to be elite!

No matter how hard you train in the weight room, you can still develop strength gaps.

Strength gaps are just what they sound like. Little gaps in your strength that can take a 600-lb Squatter and render him unable to throw a block.

See, when we lift barbells we go up and down and, as we discussed, can lose out unless we use bands and chains.

But, even with bands and chains, the weight remains in one plane of motion and relatively fixed in resistance (bands and chains add resistance as the bar goes up).
Dumbbells and K-bells help by training some of the stabilizers and Prowlers and sleds allow us to move laterally. But, there’s still something missing.

That missing something is Sandbags and other Odd-Object/Strongman style training. We tend to go mostly with Sandbags because of the safety factor, but, we also do Farmers Walk, Sled Pulling, Truck Pushing, and some Stone Trainer work.

Sandbags work because they are “alive.” They move, the weight shifts, the bag changes shape…it literally fights back, like an opponent.

I’ve seen some strong dudes get embarrassed by a 150lb Sandbag because they don’t have the stabilizer strength to tackle the beast.

Look at the Sandbag Clean and Press.

You have to pick up this moving blob of weight. Then, you shift it to the thighs and explode up to the chest – all while engaging the muscles of the back, arms, shoulders, biceps, low back, glutes, hamstrings and abs. Now, you have to press this thing overhead.

Again, the bag moves around forcing the stabilizers in the shoulders to work hard (so the bag doesn’t come down on your big head). Once you get it overhead, you’ve worked the shoulders, the triceps, the upper chest (as a stabilizer) and the back and legs again.

It’s a fight from start to finish.

This is the kind of movement that makes the body one piece, a whole of strong, unshakable muscle. No leakage is possible when you are used to wrestling Sandbags.

You can use Sandbags and Strongman movements as finishers at the end of your training session, as a stand-alone conditioning tool, or in place of barbell exercises.

The Take Home

Now you have a plan to increase your explosive strength, get faster for football and become the kind of player you always wanted to be. Or, you can choose to go with the run of the mill style of training and be average. If you choose the latter, don’t worry, you can hide for a while. But, eventually you’ll run into guys who train the right way…and we’ll be waiting for you.

Steven Morris is a Strength Coach in the Philadelphia and South Jersey areas and owner of Explosive Football Training. He still plays football and will only retire at gun-point. He has been lifting weights for over 16 years and has been helping people achieve their fitness and strength goals for over a decade.
You can get the Free Book “7-Steps to Building Insane Game Speed” at www.ExplosiveFootballTrainingProgram and www.ExplosiveFootballTraining.com

How To Build An Unbreakable Body

Last week I was fortunate enough to get Keith Scott “The Unbreakable Man” on the phone for a 30 minute interrogation where I drilled him for information and secrets that  will allow you to finally Take charge of your physical potential and health once and for all as you:

* Finally, say goodbye to your physical pain. Discover how you can eliminate your physical pain with simple exercises you can do at home.

* Dominate your game or sport, shatter records in the weight room, take back your life! Whatever your game is, reset your body to be physically dominant. With this program, you will set yourself up to dominate on the court, field, gym or in your daily life!

* Leave ineffective physical therapy sessions, endless consumption of Advil, and doctor visits behind forever. This system will allow you to take full control of your physical potential and health. Within one session, you will feel your pain start to go away fast!

* Stop ignoring your pain and physical problems and take back your life. With the corrective exercise programs and specialized “plug-ins” you can start to fix yourself, prevent new injuries, and feel better than you have in years.

* Shatter previous strength plateaus and enhance your full-body strength beyond anything you have done before. With this full, totally balanced, 16-week strength program you will realize outstanding full-body strength increases like you never imagined before. Whether it is in the gym or in daily life, strength is key to being and staying healthy and doing the things you want!

* Never miss a workout or training session again, because of injuries or painful joints. This program will ensure that you get healthy, and never have to miss a workout because of injuries or pain again!

* Burn fat, build muscle, sculpt the body of your dreams and feel like a million bucks! This plan will enable you to blow torch off unwanted fat, pack on heaps of muscle, and attain your dream body, while fixing your issues and keeping your body healthy.

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Jeff Anderson Interview

If you missed last night’s Muscle Specialization call with Jeff Anderson “The Muscle Nerd”, you can hear it below.

Here is what you will learn from this 45 minute interrogation:

* The elite “Eastern Block” secret developed to create eye-popping separation in the inner pectoral muscles to give you that “mini-Grand Canyon” look that’s so hard to achieve!

* The “sweet spot” of your rep range that triggers massive growth in even the most stubborn biceps …and how something as simple as your hand position can be the difference in results like a champ…or a chump!

* How a simple adjustment to how FAST you move the weights can help you dig deep, deep, deep into an area of your muscles you never even knew existed!

* How to zero in on those hard to hit “lower abs”…and “Experts” don’t like to talk about this topic…but it’s time someone did! And that someone is ME!

* How to achieve amazingly WIDE shoulders. that make you “look” a hell of a lot bigger…and make your WAIST look a hell of a lot SMALLER!

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Tampa Strongman Training Gym

I can remember like it was yesterday being a fresh college graduate with dreams of stardom and grandeur. I had just gotten my CSCS and thought that I would have every athlete beating down my door to be able to train with me. So I picked up and moved from Gainesville down to Tampa to take a position with the University of South Florida as an intern in the strength & conditioning. This was the “break” I was looking for.

In order to make ends meet I got a job as a Personal Trainer at the Lifestyle Family Fitness. Everything was going as planned….so I thought!

A month into the “internship” all I learned was that much of the College Strength & Conditioning business was flooded with cronyism instead of knowledge. I was a glorified janitor that got to babysit athletes that had NO desire to get better. To top things off, the hard work I put into my clients at Lifestyle yielded more of a return for them than myself. I was discouraged, frustrated and an overall shell of the person that was so enthusiastic months before. I was on the verge of giving up on my dream when I found out about 2 individuals that would ultimately change my whole perspective on what was possible.

I remember googling “Tampa Strongman”. What I found was a website run by Strength Camp owner and professional strongman Elliott Hulse. The first article I read of his hit me like a Mack truck!

Much like Joe Defranco and Zach Even-Esh did with there warehouse gyms in New Jersey, Elliott accomplished with his Strength Camp in Florida. He was able to create a competitive, results oriented environment that ANY and EVERY serious athlete would travel hours (literally) to train at. And like Zach Even-Esh before him, he was kind enough to “pay it forward”, to help others realize the dream that he had realized by creating a blue print for those that had the stones to stick it to the corporate gym structure and go out on their own!

So with a rebirth of vigor and a fresh new idea, I vowed to create Tampa’s first, best, and ONLY warehouse gym that people from all over would recognize and dream about training at! I didn’t want to cut any corners, so I wanted to get the best in Powerlifting, Olympic Lifting and Strongman equipment in order to create strong, explosive, and scary athletes! For my Powerlifting gear, I went to THE AUTHORITY in Powerlifting, EliteFTS.com.

I focused on the basics, because lets face it, the basics are what build the foundation for a winning athlete. I loaded up on Texas Power Bars (without a doubt the most versatile, best constructed bars made) specialty bars, bands, chains, glute-ham raise, reverse hyper and of course, what should be the center piece of every serious gym, two Collegiate Power Racks (NO CURLS IN THE RACK!!!).

For strongman equipment, I took a different route. While purchasing my powerlifting equipment, I learned quickly that when you want the best, you have to PAY for the best. Not so for strongman equipment! This is where Elliott had a huge influence, literally saving me thousands of dollars!

You see, I had always believed in the power of implementing Strongman exercises into an athletes training program, however always trained with others implements. It never crossed my mind that with a little leg work, any and all of the strongman implements that help build rock solid athletes, could be so simple to attain. Want a tire? They are free! How about a keg? Raid an unsuspecting fraternity house when they are too banged up to remember their name (or go to a local bar and pay the deposit on an empty shell). Sandbag? Use your brain on this one! You get the idea!

However the most important nugget of info I received was to find a good welder. This will save you time and money and is invaluable in the unfortunate circumstance that any of your equipment is damaged. So after taking the advice of Elliott, I managed to put together a healthy stable of Strongman equipment for next to nothing!

Now, with the gym in place, and my dream realized, the real work begins! I can honestly say without the inspiration and guidance of Elliott, I would be in a dead end, 9-5 job, complaining about having a case of the Monday’s and being that much closer to being the guy on youtube famous for stapling a TPS report to his Bosses forehead.

Take it from me…NOBODY deserves that life! So if I could offer anything in closing, I would tell you not to give up on what you love. With hard work and guidance, it is there for the taking!

Chandler Marchman is the owner of Elite SC Gym in Tampa Florida.  http://www.goelitesc.com/
Located at => 606 S. Tampania Ave. Tampa, FL 33609

Open your own Warehouse Gym just like Chandler, learn how with my FREE CD => http://www.WarehouseGymBusiness.com

5 Keys To Increaseing Your Vertical Jump

With basketball and volleyball right around the corner many athletes are looking to increase their vertical. Many factors lead to top end verticals; flexibility, proper training, proper jump training, jump technique and enough rest is needed to optimally increase the vertical. What we’re going to do is give you the 5 keys or exercises that we use at Athletic Edge that have helped a dozen d1 volleyball players reach their top verticals in camp this year. Over the summer we get a group of volleyball players that have to attain certain goals most of which have to do with jumping and conditioning. We are going to give some of our keys that have helped them reach their personal bests this year. These are in no specific order and should always be done with a certified sports performance coach to ensure proper technique and coaching ques.

1. Flexibility- Flexibility is key in any program for strength and conditioning. This is because the hip flexors are so important for explosion upward. If we are tight in the hips it is very hard to explode through what is called triple extension (ankles, knees and hip alignment). This triple extension is the power behind the vertical. So we need to be properly warmed up using some various methods: foam rolling, active warm up, muscle activation and cns activation. These four concepts will help improve your vertical immensely.

2. Depth jump landing to depth jumps- learning how to properly land is also key to understanding how to jump. To work on depth jump landing simply stand on a box and step down and land. Making sure your feet are shoulder width and you’re in an athletic position. This is important because volleyball and basketball players all use repetitive jumping and making sure you can land and jump again with the same power is important. We must always learn to land before we learn to jump. Depth jumps are simple and one of the most important exercises to do because of the quick response the body needs and how the cns reacts to this type of training. You start off the same on the box, step down, and then jump up as quickly as possible. This is very intensive on the cns and has been used for many years as a training method to increase verts. To make this even more challenging put some hurdles in front of the box and do depth jumps that way.

3. Resisted jumps- there are many ways to do resisted jumping and some of them are; the Vertimax, resisted cords and vests. These are the basis of resisted methods we use at Athletic Edge. The Vertimax is by far one of the best pieces of equipment you can get. It is one of the few if not only piece that resists the athlete from the waist down. This is important again because of the cns intensive training and triple extension. This resistance makes the body work extremely hard to overcome the interia the weight is putting the body through. Repeated use of resistant training gives the body muscle memory thus increasing the vertical.

4. Strength training specifically squats and posterior chain- squatting, whatever type it may be (back squats, front squats, box squats, safety squats and sumo squats) are one of the best things to do for increasing power in the lower body. Depending on your training history and age you can do anything from bodyweight squatting to heavy band squatting the point is you’re squatting. The muscles used to squat are the same muscles used to jump and explode upward. Again we are talking about overcoming inertia and driving the hips, butt and torso upward. The posterior chain, which is the glutes and the hamstrings, are very important not only in jumping but also acl prevention. This is especially true in women as there is a 5x more likely hood that acl tears will happen compared to men. This is due to poor activation of the posterior chain. Some exercises we do are: bridge series, RDL’s and SL RDL’s.

5. Single Leg training- While duel leg training like squatting and jumping are extremely important we must realize one leg is always stronger than the other. Single leg training (SL) is important to do because we need the most power out of each leg possible. Training in this fashion ensures proper acceleration and power when doing 2 legged jumping. Some exercises we do are lunge walks; rear leg elevated squats, pistol squats and SL RDL’s. These exercises are extremely vital to the athlete and give the athlete not only strength but most importantly power through the whole lower body. These types of exercises also help with prevention of ACL problems as many females suffer from over compensation. We also incorporate SL work into all keys of warm up including SL jump roping, agility ladder drills, mini SL jumps forward and lateral and over objects. We also incorporate SL jumps to double leg landing and Double leg jumps to SL landings.

These 5 keys are very important to incorporate into your training. Remember to always warm up properly and consult with a certified strength and conditioning coach to ensure proper program design and conditioning. Here at Athletic Edge Sports Performance, inc. we make sure that all of our athletes are doing some sort of these 5 keys to jumping. Remember there are many variations we use because of how many different age groups we have. If you have any questions or need descriptions of exercise don’t hesitate to ask. We also do offer on line training now at the Edge in speed, agility, strength training and jump training. Again don’t hesitate to ask. We hope this helps and gives description to how important these 5 keys are to increasing your vertical but also helping secure your ACL.

Coach Brad is a certified strength and conditioning coach under the CSCS with a degree in Exercise Science and owner of Athletic Edge Sports Performance, Inc.

He has been training all types of athletes for 7 years including many division 1 baseball, football, volleyball and basketball players. Coach Brad also deals a lot with youth athletes and athletes coming off of injury. Coach Troy is also CSCS certified and has a degree in Physical Education. He has been in the field for 15 years training athletes from grammar school to professional.

Contact Coach Brad or Troy at 773-610-FAST (3278) or email at llmb@prodigy.net check out the website at www.athleticedgesports.net and stay tuned for prevention of ACL and Jump Training videos.

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How To Correct Deadlift Exercise Form

If you’re a Strength Camp Member or have been reading my website for some time, you know that I love dead lifts… not only for their strength and power building capacity but also for their ability to correct common muscular imbalances when performed correctly.

This video teaches an effective exercise that will strengthen the scapular adductors and mid back muscles while stretching the upper traps, pec minor and biceps.  Thus correcting the “thoracic kyphosis” posture (rounding of the shoulders) present in many young weaklings

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Interview With Strength Coach Tim Mosolino

Last week we welcomed Strength Coach Tim Mosolino, Founder of the Strength Coach 101 clinics… which, by the way is finally open to the public but only a few spots remain.
So, get your ticket here => http://www.StrengthCoach101.com

If you didn’t get to listen to our call, here is a taste what you missed:

* The 1 Step That All New And Aspiring Strength Coaches Must Take Before Going Into Business

*Why Learning From Textbooks and Most University Professors Is A Waste Of Time and Money.

*How Tim Assesses His Athletes To Determine What The Best Exercises Are For Them Individually.

*How You Can Join Tim, Elliott, Jimmy “Smitty” Smith, Joe Hashey and A Bunch Of Other Top Strength Coaches For An Ass-Kicking Clinic This Month.

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Strength Camp Sponsored Strongman

Strength Camp sponsored athlete Don Vining won the Fort Meyer’s Strongman Contest in the Lightweight division.

Don is a pretty strong dude that trains with me and our Saturday morning Strongman crew at Strength Camp.  He is the first athlete that I have ever sponsored, and he was well worth the investment

He destroyed the competition and looked super explosive!! — Like a real strongman should

I’m contemplating whether or not to continue with the sponsorship program… but, if you are a competitive Strongman, Power lifter, Olympic Lifter, MMA, etc.  comment at the bottom of this post if you may be interested in becoming a Strength Camp sponsored athlete.

Check out Don kicking ass below!

Why Your Bench Press Sucks

Early in my exercise physiology education I was introduced to the idea of “sports specific training”.  This is a method of training where by the strength coach has an athlete perform exercises that are analogous to what the athlete may experience on the playing field.

Often these “sports specific” drills would become very wacky and even dangerous… I remember watching a video of an NFL running back sprinting on a treadmill while his nut job strength coach swung a bat at this legs in order that he may jump over it, simulating the avoidance of a tackle.

Besides being a complete waste of time, I feel that many of these “sports specific” drills and the wacky coaches that use them need to be castrated.

Now, here is where is gets really weird…

These “bat swinging” weirdos are the same ones to claim that exercises like The Bench Press are not “sport specific” and should be excluded from strength and conditioning programs for most athletes.

This is absurd!

The bench press is one of the BEST exercises for packing slabs of lean muscles on the tiny bird chests of most young athletes.

Now here is the real problem…

Some athletes need to “descend” the bench press exercise, especially if they can’t do a set of 20 body weight push ups.  Also, like with all exercises there is a right way and a wrong way to perform the bench press.

Check out this free video series by AJ Roberts that shows you exactly how to bench press properly, avoiding unnecessary injury and plateaued strength.

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Increase Football Speed & Quickness Interview with Alex Maroko

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