Front Squats For Improved Posture & Performance

This scares me to death… strength and sports coaches who load heavy weights onto the back of weak and muscularly imbalanced athletes.

Listen, if yourself or your athletes can not maintain a STRONG posture… which in my book is defined as:

“The capacity to maintain The Instantaneous Axis Of Rotation of all joints while static or during dynamic movement.”

Then you have no business adding external resistance (barbells or weights) to their body in a manner that facilitates the weakness or exposes it to injury.

Let me explain… if a kid has overdeveloped traps and weak scapular adductors (the muscles that hold the chest up and shoulder blades together) he will appear to have a “rounded” or “hunched” mid / back,  It may not be as obvious a deformation as the Hunchback of Notre Dame but it is a Red Flag none the less.

Now if you take that kid who can barely maintain thoracic extension (chest up, shoulders down posture) and load his spine with a 225 lb. barbell and expect him to squat… you’re gonna have one of several situations on your hands.

1. The barbell will crush him and toss him face first onto the floor with the barbell doping down on his neck!

2. He will squat the weight, but it will look more like a Good Morning bow than a squat… and his low back is going to be killing him!

3. He will simply not be able to attempt the lift…. EVER!  He will never get stronger with this weak link in his “kinetic chain.”

So, what the heck do you do?

Use what I call “Corrective Bodybuilding” to strengthen weaknesses while still taxing the nervous and endocrine system for increased strength and growth!

Check out one more of my “Corrective Bodybuilding” exercises below:

Check out… Football Strength System for more “Corrective Body Building Exercises”,  before the price goes up this month!

Bodybuilding For Athletes ?!?!

Early in my education as a Strength & Conditioning coach I was taught by several well known and highly respected coaches that athletes should NOT body-build.

These “geniuses” told me that bodybuilding would make athletes “tight and unathletic” and that bodybuilding had no functional carryover to the sports being played.

10 years later…

I body build to get bigger and stronger and my athletes body build to get bigger and stronger.

The fact is that the only way to gain mass is to eat more calories than you expend AND to add bodybuilding to your program.

In this video you’ll meet Drayton (again), and see what we have done to force his body to gain…

10 pounds of muscle in less than 3 weeks!!! – using the exact bodybuilding system that I taught you in my Football Strength Program

PS - In less than 3 weeks I will be re-releasing the Football Strength Program under a new name and I’m adding a TON of new updates, bonuses and gifts.  But the price will go up also!

Make sure you get on board before the price hike.  Oh, and all members get unlimited free upgrades too.

http://www.FootballStrengthProgram.com

Power Cleans vs. Strongman For Football

If you think that Olympic lifting and power cleans are the only way to get athletes faster and more explosive, then you haven’t looked outside the box.

Consider that a power clean is basically a “loaded jump”, your moving massive amounts of weight with an explosive triple extension.

Well, here are a list of other exercises performed with an explosive triple extension but are way more fun, safe and affordable than barbell Olympic lifting.

1. Tire Flips

2. Keg Loading

3. Stone Loading

4. Sandbag Loading

5. Medicine Ball Backwards Toss

Watch this video of Drayton performing a heavy sand bag load:

I’m pretty sure many of you have experimented with and have discovered other non traditional ways to get bigger, faster and stronger. -

I’d love to learn about them… post your best non-traditional exercises below.

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Have a great weekend!