1.      Cut out the jogging.

Credit to www.sportspecific.com Football Conditioning Program This program is to be completed starting 8 weeks before the beginning of the season.

We gathered some of our EFS staff members and several others to discuss the top five lifts for football players. All of them have experience training football players, and all of them have some different ideas. We edited out some of the banter and the cussing to get to the meat of the discussion. If you’re a football coach or a strength coach for football, check this out. It may give you some ideas.

I’ve been asked how I go about training athletes for speed, agility, and quickness (SAQ). This is something very practical for strength and conditioning coaches because while you can make an athlete stronger and more powerful using a strength program, if the athletes don’t have SAQ training, they take the chance of being out-performed on the field. Because it is currently training season for our high school football players, I’ll discuss how we train them.

Strength and conditioning/sports performance coaches are often faced with concerns about “individualizing” programs for their athletes. More times than not, it’s extremely difficult to make exact individual programs for every different athlete in the program. Although there are several different reasons for this, lack of time in the day is a large one (especially for the collegiate strength coach). Here at Northwestern State University (NSU), we developed a method for classifying our athletes to make their programs/training more individualized.