Are your football conditioning drills getting you into game shape or simply sprint shape?
Players spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours each year preparing for combines at all levels.
If there’s one area where most football players really drop the ball, it’s in-season strength training.
Just as all great football teams have common traits (good defense, team work, great coaching), all football strength programs share common qualities that set them apart from the pack.
Kettlebells are a perfect tool when it comes to building strength, explosiveness, and flexibility for football.
Here are the seven steps for building the perfect high school lineman.
Here are six lateral strength exercises you can use in your training program to ensure that you’re building real world game speed.
When it comes to football strength training, I’m a simple man.
Any exercise that hits the hamstrings, glutes, and quads hard is going to be good for getting faster on the football field.
If you want to be a great football player, great lifter, and, maybe in the future, a great coach, you need to invest time, effort, and money.
Steve discusses nine movements to make you faster for football.
Now, without further fanfare, here are the top three explosive football exercises for hitting harder.
There are still way too many football teams that base their entire conditioning program around jogging or jogging-related running.
Football players are completely clueless about nutrition.
Steve discusses four great conditioning moves for football linemen.
Several years ago during one of the more Olympic lifting intensive periods of my lifting career, I hit a long awaited personal record—a 420-lb push press.
Here are the top nine supplements to help you get faster, bigger, stronger and more explosive for football.
One thing that absolutely baffles me about most football strength training programs is that everyone does the same thing.
The goal isn’t to be a powerlifter or Strongman but to become as strong, fast, and insanely explosive as humanly possible so you can dominate on the football field.
Here are six ways to easily implement sandbags into your football strength and conditioning program.
“I tell ya. His legs are as strong as an ox, but he throws a punch like a 7-year old girl!”
Where the hell did we go so wrong when it comes to football speed training? When did it become acceptable to pass off the hard work that entails training for football speed and replace it with fairly easy cone drills and gadgets?
If we all simply followed this one, there’d be better results and more time for real training. Jogging has no place in a football training program. None. Not as a warm up, not as a cool down, and definitely not as punishment
The other day I had to suffer the great indignity of paying for a day pass at a commercial gym. Lifting in a commercial place isn’t all that bad. It can actually be good from time to time to expose you to new equipment or just get a change of scenery.
Here are the top 11 movements for athletes. Add them to your rotation and work them hard.
I had just a little over a year to get where I wanted to be.