Football Workouts: Build Strength to Get Faster
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Your football training program should always be about getting your stronger and faster. Many mistakenly turn to gimmicks and weird gadgets like parachutes to get faster for football. But, the truth is, how strong you are determines how fast you are on the football field. Your football workouts need to reflect this!
I get tons of emails from coaches and players asking about every speed-training device under the sun. Parachutes, cones, hurdles, towing devices, and special shoes and usually the subject at hand.
While all these devices have their place, the truth is, the best way to increase speed is by increasing strength. You must increase Max Strength, which will also increase Relative Strength (how strong you are for your bodyweight), which will increase speed.
Mel Siff, PhD, author of Supertraining, considered by most to be the Bible of strength training texts, wrote this about increasing speed training:
To increase speed it is necessary to increase the magnitude or duration of the force applied (or both), or decrease the mass of the body. However, for practical purposes, not all of these possibilities can be achieved in human movement. The athlete is unable to decrease the mass of his body or an item of standard athletic apparatus, or increase the duration of t (time) of a given movement. However, it is possible to increase the time of a movement of limited amplitude only by decreasing its speed, which is nonsense. Consequently, only one recourse remains, namely to increase strength. Maximum strength is the main factor determining speed of movement!
In layman's terms: Get stronger to get faster! Set up your football workouts so that they make you stronger at all times...all year long.
During my football career, I had the great pleasure of playing with and against several guys with NFL experience��either they were in NFL camps, played a season or two, or just played specials in the pros.
I'm often asked what it was like��were these guys just unstoppable Was their technique just out of this world
Actually, no. I've seen better technique on guys who, frankly, weren't that good.
I will say that, without a doubt, the biggest difference between these guys and everyone else was their explosiveness and power! These guys (all over 300lbs) absolutely FLEW off the ball. They were Powerlifter Strong with the explosion of an Olympic Sprinter.
Next time someone tells you to concentrate on cone drills and forget the weights, remember this story.
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