When developing the strength and explosiveness program for the University of Pittsburgh men’s hockey team, there were several factors I had to take into consideration as a coach. Hopefully my experience thus far will help you in similar situations.

Now that the summer is winding down and the fall season is upon us, it is time for strength and conditioning coaches to see if all of their hard work paid off.

I’m known on here as the “Angry Coach,” but as we all know, the longer you coach, the angrier you get.

Do you ever have those surreal moments in life? They seem to occur more frequently as I grow older.

I’m still convinced that you can talk them into this, and that you can talk kids into doing anything, or believing they can do anything. The military does it every day.

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.

Many factors affect the optimal training status of the athlete for his upcoming season, but this paper will focus on that of maximal strength.

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.

In order to provide some “spice” to our workouts, we have implemented a game day every two weeks.

There are still way too many football teams that base their entire conditioning program around jogging or jogging-related running.

The following is a true story that happened to a person I know very well.

Make sure there is rationale for its prescription.

I’ve coached high school football for six years and have seen one critical factor that has caused our football players to lose strength and size.

When training, preparing, and coaching defensive linemen, it’s important to remember that the American football defensive lineman is one of the more unique athletes on the face of the earth.

See how the NFL players from DeFranco’s Gym are doing this season.

This past winter I had the unique privilege of working with Curtis Granderson as he was about to switch teams from the Detroit Tigers to the New York Yankees.

Would you rather know everything there is about training but not be allowed to implement it or not know anything about training and overtrain your athletes?

Find something you do well and exploit it.

I’ve attended several camps over the years including a combine, team 7-on-7s, college one-day camps, showcase camps, and fundamental camps, and I have an opinion on all of them, so bear with me.

It’s around that season where email questions shift from “How can I bench more?” to “I only have a few weeks left to prepare for the fall sports season—how can I get huge!?”

I just returned from a consulting engagement with a division 1-football program. I was contracted to review and give insight on their strength-training program.

Football players are completely clueless about nutrition.

I was asked by a group of peewee league football parents to train their kids for the upcoming tryouts.

Steve discusses four great conditioning moves for football linemen.

I’ll begin this review by stating, straight off the top, that James “The Thinker” Smith is a friend of mine.

For more exercise ideas, visit our NEW Exercise Index.

During the past six years I have been able to experience a very diverse background of training as it applies to the game football.

Off-season is upon us! It’s time to bench, squat, and power clean until your players puke.