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Quickly Build Muscle for Football
By Bill Rom Football isn’t just a contact sport; it is a collision sport. The impact of the hits during a football game has been compared to...
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How You Can Build Muscle With Cardio Workouts
Be bigger, stronger, faster—the universal desire of athletes. To achieve these goals, a training program moves through muscle gain, strength and power phases. However, I...
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8 core exercises that are better than situps
By Jimmy Pritchard What’s Wrong With the Sit-Up? For decades the bent-knee sit-up has served as the go-to core exercise by military personnel, sports coaches,...
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The Best Strength and Power Superset for Athletes
Despite my job title as a strength and conditioning coach, I care far more about power than I do strength. Whereas strength is the ability...
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Advanced 2-Exercise Combo That Improves Football Power and Explosiveness
Success, for football players, is largely determined by their power and strength. They must be able to explosively drive into the field to sprint and...
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How Olympic Lifts Increase Speed
Increasing speed involves a combination of improving running mechanics and getting stronger. Several different strength programs can improve speed. Although they might not all yield...
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3 Keys to Russell Wilson’s Championship Mindset
What are your three keys that will make you more successful? Write them down. Put them to memory. When you can call upon them to...
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Football Defensive Schemes: Super Bowl Basics
Calling a defense is one of the greatest challenges in football. Game plans are based entirely on prediction—predicting what formations an offense will line up...
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The Secret 6 a.m. Workouts That Propelled Tom Brady to His First Super Bowl Victory
Tom Brady’s performance at the 2000 NFL Combine was horrendous. He ran a snail-like 5.28 in the 40-Yard Dash and recorded an abysmal 24.5-inch Vertical...
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The Pro Factory: How Ohio State’s WR Room Churns Out Beasts
Ohio State’s wide receiver room is a bonafide pro factory. Since 2015, eight Buckeye receivers have been drafted into the NFL. The pipeline likely won’t...
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Why D1 Football Players Are Training With the Triple Jump
Of all the athletic marvels the human body’s capable of, a world-class Triple Jump might be the most mind-boggling. An Olympic event since 1896, the...
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4 Unconventional Exercises for Insane Functional Strength
Trainers, coaches and conditioning specialists alike know the importance of sport-specific training. Sport-specific training is the philosophy of employing exercises and movement patterns that have...
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How Dialing in His Mechanics Helped Christian McCaffrey Supercharge His Speed
Speed kills. Christian McCaffrey is living proof. McCaffrey’s production has taken a quantum leap forward this season, an extraordinary feat when you consider he was...
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6 Ways to Master Quick Workouts
Let’s face it. No matter how dedicated you are to training for your sport or health, sometimes you’re just pressed for time and can’t quite...
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Christian McCaffrey’s ‘No. 1’ Weight Room Exercise
“Ironman.” “Superhuman”. “Thor’s long-lost brother”. Christian McCaffrey’s teammates often resort to the fantastical to describe the All-Pro running back. For good reason: the NFL has rarely...
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Why Carolina Panthers RB Christian McCaffrey trains like a track athlete in the offseason
Christian McCaffrey is a workhorse who moves like a racehorse. The Carolina Panthers running back totaled 326 touches in 2018, third-most in the NFL, galloping...
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Improve Quickness With Lateral Speed Drills
Agility is one of the most important skills an athlete can possess. To be successful in sports, you have to be able to stop on a...
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The 5 essential movements for building athletic strength
For an athlete or coach who’s just beginning to dive into the world of strength and conditioning, the topic has arguably never felt more confusing....
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8 Drills For Building NFL-Style Speed and Explosiveness
Speed kills. Perhaps this fact is no more apparent than in football. A football field is only 100 yards long and 53.33 yards wide. The...
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Improve these 3 physical skills to sprint faster
We’ve all heard it before: Speed kills. Every athlete is concerned about how fast they are and what they have to do to get “faster.”...
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Sardines: The Incredibly Powerful Superfood You’ve Probably Been Ignoring
Sardines. They’re one of the most disrespected foods in America. There seems to be some sort of psychological hold-up that prevents people from even trying the food,...
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Why Classic Pyramid Sets Suck for Strength Gains (and What to Do Instead)
Spend five minutes reading about lifting weights online and you can’t help but come across something called “pyramid” training. As the name implies, you “pyramid”...
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Build “Real-World” Strength with uneven-load weight training
When you load weights onto a barbell or grab two dumbbells, are they the same weight? Silly question, right? Of course they are. It’d be...
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2 Advanced Push-Up Variations for Upper-Body and Core Strength
By Tammy Kovaluk We’ve all done Push-Ups at some point. Maybe it was in gym class in elementary school or as part of a workout...
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Why Training to Failure Can Actually Hinder Your Strength, Power and Explosiveness Gains
Training to failure. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, it refers to performing as many reps during a set as you possibly can. Only once...
