Surviving and Thriving With Limited Time In a High School S & C Program
High school strength and conditioning is one of the most dynamic strength and conditioning environments at any level. Most of the time I see my athletes 3-4 times per week for around 30 minutes of actual work. How do we…
Creating Competition In Your Summer Program
As coaches, we always talk about how we want our guys to constantly compete. I am a firm believer that the best way to do this at the high school level is to encourage your athletes to participate in multiple…
Outlining Your Summer Program
Developing a solid outline for your summer program is the foundation upon which your program should be built. These are the questions that have to be answered in order to develop a great outline: 1) How many weeks? We have…
Creating Variety With Strong Man Exercises
[contact-form][contact-field label=’Name’ type=’name’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’Email’ type=’email’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’Website’ type=’url’/][contact-field label=’Comment’ type=’textarea’ required=’1’/][/contact-form] Strong Man lifts are a very popular alternative method for building strength with your athletes. As coaches, we always talk about loving the guys who have “farm boy…
Systematic Method and Progression For Teaching The Clean
The clean and its variations are what many strength and conditioning coaches use to develop explosiveness in their athletes. One of the common errors I see when I visit with coaches and watch their athletes is a lack of a…
Evolution in Strength and Conditioning
This is going to be my 17th season as a strength and conditioning coach working with athletes and preparing them for the upcoming football season when we begin in January. There has been tremendous growth in the field of strength…
Importance of Relative Body Strength In High School Athletes
This generation of high school athletes is unique in many ways. One of the ways in which they are unique is their lack of strength in terms of relative body strength. This is a generation that for the most part…
Training Modifications Due to Injury During Football Season
Football is a collision sport, and it is inevitable that your team is going to have to deal with injuries at some point during this football season. Early in my career, I was very hands off with students who had…
Maintaining Pre-Season Strength and Conditioning Levels During The Football Season
Maintaining strength and speed is every coach’s goal throughout the football season. It is imperative that coaches maintain their team’s strength and conditioning level throughout the season in order to be ready for that stretch championship run that all teams…