Two Summer Conditioning Exercises for Football

Two Conditioning Drills to Get You in 2-Way Shape This Summer So You Can Dominate on the Football Field in the Fall How you play in the fall is determined by what you did in the winter, spring and summer. And, when it comes to being in shape for the game, your summer football conditioning [...]

Football Strength Training Exercise of the Week: Close Grip Incline

Using the Close Grip Incline in Your Football Strength Workouts to Bulk Up the Chest, Tris and Shoulders and Build Bone-Crushing Upper Body Strength If you ask me what I bench, I will throw a 45 at your head! The Bench Press is largely considered the King of all upper body lifts for football. In [...]

Gaining Muscle & Getting Bigger for Football – Density Factor

How to Use Density to Gain Muscle and Gain Weight for Football One of the great mysteries to football players and coaches is how to continually make progress in their Football Strength and Conditioning programs. We’ve all seen over and over again that simple progressive overload is quite limited in its effectiveness. In fact, it [...]

Eat Right and Get Stronger and Faster for Football

4 Steps to Eating for Maximum Performance on the Football Field – Follow Them to Get Bigger, Stronger, & Faster for Football – Year-round! If your body is supposed to be a finely-tuned machine…a machine that you expect to become faster, stronger and be able to hit harder on the football field…then why do you [...]

Explosive Football Strength Exercise of the Week, I

Get Faster for Football Exercise of the Week – Hyper Raises Each week I’m going to bring you a “Football Training Exercise of the Week.” They’ll be strength, conditioning or speed exercises for football that are kind of like the All-Stars and Underrated Squad of exercises. This week, we’ll focus on a “get faster for [...]

Football Training 101: Recovery to Get Faster and Stronger, I

How to Use Advanced Recovery Methods to Get Faster and Stronger for Football…While Resting This one might seem a little odd to you. After all, most of the articles here usually involve me ranting in some form about you young punks needing to work harder! And, you do. Really. Most people I see are just [...]

Building Toughness for Football – The Wrong Way

Building “Toughness” for Football is Key…But, Some Methods are Outdated and Counterproductive… Here’s another great article from Coach Joe over at Football-Defense.com. Coach gives his opinion on “toughness drills” for football…and how they can be unnecessary and can actually turn athletes away from the sport! After the article, I’ll jump in with my opinion on [...]

How to Get Your Football Coach to Notice You

7-Steps to Get Your Football Coach to Notice You and Get More Playing Time High School Football can be a brutal experience when your coach doesn’t know you exist… We all want more playing time. If you’re a true competitor, you never want to leave the field…you want to be there to step up and [...]

Defensive Line Drills for the Off-Season

Off-Season Football Drills Defensive Lineman Can Do, Without Pads, to Build Skills Here’s another great article from the coaches at Football-Defense.com. Its not secret that I favor Offensive and Defensive Linemen…because I am one (Yes, I played a year of TE, don’t hold it against me!) I get asked a lot about what kind of [...]

A Football Training Program That Failed…Badly

A Disastrous Football Training Program – What You Can LearnFrom My Failed Attempt at a 500-lb Push Press & How It Can Make Your Football Program Stronger I wrote this article several years ago and it was recently published over at EliteFTS.com. It really is a good primer on how to truly F-up your football [...]