Getting More From Your Training: Lateral Movements for Cutting Ability
By Nick Pinkelman, Owner and Athletic Performance Director Fast to Precise Performance nick@f2pperformance.com When creating a football training program I feel often that lateral movements/exercises are overlooked or the training isn’t correctly emphasized from a strength and conditioning standpoint. …
COACHING BETTER EACH SEASON – A YEAR-ROUND SYSTEM FOR ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRAM SUCCESS
By Dr. Wade Gilbert, Professor California State University at Fresno Creating a Winning Team Culture One of the biggest challenges for coaches is to figure out how to share their coaching purpose and teach core values to a…
Interview with new Texas Wesleyan Head Coach Joe Prud’homme (Part II)
Texas Wesleyan is a football revival 75 years in the making. TWU will resurrect their football team in 2017 under Head Coach Joe Prud’homme. Having spent 27 years as a high school head coach, Prud’homme won seven Texas State Championships….
YOGA FOR ATHLETES – FOOTBALL STRETCHES FOR EVERY POSITION
The quadriceps are big muscles that are important for running, jumping, and squatting, motions largely used in every position in football. High lunge pose with hands on floor will help lengthen the quadriceps and hip flexors. From downward-facing dog…
Arkansas Tech University RPO Part 2
Part II 6. Power with Deep Out (20 personnel) This is our first gap scheme RPO. The fear with Gap Scheme RPO’s is giving up pressure in the blocking scheme. We will run power into the boundary. In order to…
Arkansas Tech University RPO Clinic Part 1
By Brent Dearmon, Offensive Coordinator Arkansas Tech University At Arkansas Tech University, we are a run first offense that mixes in complimentary RPO’s to replace our quick game. We base out of 20 personnel formation, so we see 6…
Q and A with Kapolei High School Head Coach Darren Hernandez
Q and A with Kapolei High School Head Coach Darren Hernandez #1 – Kapolei had a remarkable football season this past fall – tell us about it? I have been the only head coach in Kapolei high school’s history….
View from the O-Line: Football According to NFL Offensive Linemen – Displacing Bodies
Displacing Bodies MY PLAYING CAREER was drawing to a close. I hadn’t entertained any notion I’d go into coaching. My career had been great until 1970. In 1969 Tiger Johnson left for the Bengals. His replacement, Ernie Zwahlen, started changing…
Quarterback Drills with Coach Stubbs
EFFECTIVE QUARTERBACK DRILLS FOR ALL LEVELS VII. Drop Drill – To concentrate on consistent drops. Also can be used as a conditioning drill. Procedure: 1. Align a quarterback on a line. 2. He will execute: 3-3 step drops and 5-5 step drops …
The “Forgotten” Position in the Air Raid Offense (Running Back)
By Patrick Taylor, Offensive Coordinator North Surry High School (FL) I use the word “forgotten” in quotation marks, because the media seems to forget this important part of the offense. The focus of everyone when talking in this offense…