Earlier this week I received this email from a high school football player:
I have two questions, the first of which is: how can I get bigger for football? I am a sophomore in high school, I’m five-ten and I weigh 190 lbs. This is an improvement from my freshman year, here I was five-seven [...]

It’s been quite a while since I posted anything related to football training, but after the New York Times did a feature a couple months ago about stretching before athletic activity I figured I’d chip in my two cents at some point.
As the Times reports, “Researchers now believe that some of the more entrenched elements [...]

I know that we all say we stretch. If you’re a football player at the high school or college level, chances are you’ve had at least one coach who constantly preached the importance of stretching. Maybe once in a while you heeded his advice and half-heartedly stretched in between practices. But if you’re serious about [...]

Form running drills are some of the most overlooked aspects of getting better as an athlete. They help your overall agility and enforce proper running technique to make you faster. Here’s some of my favorite drills that will help make you a better football player:

High knees/butt kicks. The classics. I group these two together because [...]

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I came from a high school where we did some pretty crazy conditioning stuff. I wouldn’t necessarily say that we over trained, but we ran a lot. It made me a faster, more athletic football player and helped me cut my 40 time down from about 5.8 freshman year to right around 5 [...]