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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 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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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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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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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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The Complete Off-Season Football Workout Plan
The winter months give football players valuable time to commit to a full off-season football workout plan. Take advantage of your extra time this winter...
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6 Exercises to Build Serious Strength That Aren’t Squats, Deadlifts or Bench
By Richard Kompf When talking about strength, most people think of the Big Three lifts (Squat, Bench Press and Deadlift). These are great tools to...
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Build the Perfect Deadlift: 7 Expert Coaches Share Their Favorite Cue
By Justin Ochoa If I could only do one single exercise for the rest of my life, it would undoubtedly be some sort of Deadlift...
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15 Core Strengthening Exercises for Athletes
When it comes to core exercises, too much focus is placed on the abs and not enough on the back, pelvic and diaphragm muscles, which...
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Take this push-up workout challenge, work your chest from all angles
Performing numerous conventional Push-Ups on a flat surface often measures upper-body strength and muscle endurance for physical education classes, military or law enforcement exams. They...
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The 10 Best Plyometric Exercises for Athletes
By Andy Meyers Even today in 2024 Plyometric training is a great way for athletes to build explosive power. Performing plyometrics one to three times...
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7 Reasons Why Your Workouts Don’t Work
You’re hitting the weights hard, yet you’re far from where you expected to be with your training program. And worse, your performance is lacking on...
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How to Properly Use Olympic Lifting to Improve Sports Performance
There’s a good chance you will come across Olympic lifts in your training program in your athletic career—especially if you’re a football player or wrestler....
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Study: The Best Deadlift For Athletes is…
…the Trap Bar Deadlift. We’ve long known about the virtues of the Trap Bar Deadlift. It’s essentially a Squat and Deadlift combined into one exercise....
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Why Athletes Should Train Like Powerlifters
Strength training is simply enhancing the body’s ability to develop more force in movement. For most athletes, this style of training is also the missing...
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4 Football Conditioning Drills to Consider this Preseason
The average football play lasts five seconds with 25 to 30 seconds between plays. Coaches understand that to prepare for this, there’s little use for...
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5 movement drills to help gain football speed
Football is grounded in quickness more than pure speed. Getting to the spot first gives a player a huge advantage over his opponent. Bren Boudro...
