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Speed Development Program - Multi-directional Speed

by Brijesh Patel

Description

This is a similar layout to my 16 week linear speed program but this specific program will look to address linear, lateral as well as multi-directional speed.

This program is designed to improve your overall athleticism that you can use regardless of which sport you play.

Coach B lays out a 4 phase 4 week program that is progressive in nature with designed to improve your speed, agility, balance and your overall coordination.

As with anything the program is only as good as the intent that's put into the program. Be sure to control your strength training volume when on this speed specific program. This is not a conditioning program. It is a program that designed specifically to aid in your athletic development and improve your overall movement.

You will receive a pdf with exercises hyperlinked to videos.

Lessons

1 Total Speed Program

The Coach

Brijesh Patel

Brijesh Patel has been an innovator, leader and highly regarded coach in the health and performance field for over 20 years.  His passion for improvement, growth and development has played a major role in the success and well being for hundreds of individuals.

Coach B is a sought after speaker and consultant, as well as proving to be a mentor for coaches across all sports.  He currently serves as the Associate Athletic Director/Director of Athletic Performance at Quinnipiac University. Coach B has built the strength and conditioning department from scratch, instilling his philosophy and approach to creating the best overall environment. He prides himself in leading a department in which each student-athlete is given his or her own individualized program that is designed to improve movement skills, core strength, power, speed, strength, balance and flexibility. 

While Coach B oversees the strength and conditioning development for all 21 varsity sports at Quinnipiac, he works primarily with the Men’s and Women’s Basketball and Ice Hockey teams.

Coach B's other coaching positions include the College of the Holy Cross, University of Connecticut, and with Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning.

Coach B has been instrumental in developing a culture of improvement and an attitude of success, while instilling a humble work ethic in those he works with. His athletes have seen the benefit of Coach B’s teaching through all-conference recognitions, team championships, and the development into professional athletes. Coach B’s takes pride in helping everyone achieve their own personal success outside of the athletic arena. His ability to see his athletes as people first has allowed him to foster and strengthen relationships with all who he works with.

In addition to his work with athletes, Coach B has played a tremendous role in the development of young strength and conditioning coaches. He has been a mentor for them as they have grown into strong professionals in the industry. He has gained great satisfaction in seeing young coaches develop into confident and impactful members of the strength and conditioning community.

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Kettlebell Training for Combat Athletes

by Zach Even-Esh

Description

Video # 1: 49 Minutes

Video # 2: 46 Minutes

In the early 2000s, my friend, Jason C. Brown and I were creating Training DVDs that sold around the world. Yes, DVDs. What Jason and I were doing 20+ years we are now starting to see pop up elsewhere. We were far ahead of the curve and the reason is because we were and still are Coaches who were testing, experimenting and training on a daily basis. We were NEVER "influencers". We were training athletes in BJJ clubs, wrestling clubs, in our garages, backyards and and local playgrounds. 

We actually applied and tested our training methods to see what worked and what didn't work. 

Kettlebells for Combat became one of our best selling DVDs for MMA Fighters, Wrestlers, BJJ Athletes and other combat athletes like Football players, and LAX athletes.

NOTE: These Videos were NOT filmed in HD because it was NOT available in the early 2000s so the quality of the video is less than the videos of today!

Stand up fighters such as Boxers & Muay Thai fighters along with First Responders, LEO & Military also loved these videos. Jason was training special forces soldiers while I was being brought in to train D1 Wrestlers, Marines, FBI and other high level people who needed training that truly had transfer to their sports and / or career.

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Training Proven to Transform You or the Athletes You Train Into an Agile, Mobile & Hostile Performance Machine 

 

Here's just some of what we cover inside The Kettlebells for Combat Video Course:

• · What exactly "Loaded Conditioning" is - and how to use it to your benefit for developing 3 of the most important traits for combat athletes: Strength Endurance, Muscular Endurance & Isometric Strength Endurance.

• · Discover how to use the Kettlebell techniques that have been proven to Increase your power and explosiveness. You will learn exactly which exercises you need to do to increase your power and speed from the hips, legs, upper and lower body.

• · How to use towels and ropes with Kettlebells to dramatically improve your hand and grip strength.

• · The Most effective Kettlebell Circuits that increase your overall conditioning so you can out-perform your competition time and time again.

• · Over 15 Towel-Kettlebell combinations to develop grip endurance & full body strength.

• · How to incorporate The Contrast Method for full-body power using bands and Kettlebells.

• · 8 variations of Kettlebell - Box Jump combos for increasing speed & power in your takedowns, throws and guard.

• · 15 Kettlebell Swing variations that will turbo charge your combat conditioning, strengthen your combat specific grip and rotational power.

• · Discover how to improve your starting strength and explosive power with special Kettlebell exercises.

• · 8 variations of Kettlebell Cleans for increased hip, back & leg power.

• · 15 different pulling & rowing exercises that develop strength & power from every possible angle. You never want to feel uncomfortable or WEAK in certain positions or situations, hence this multi faceted approach towards training.

Kettlebell Training Methods Used to Develop Dominant, Powerful, Resilient Athletes.

Develop Joint Integrity, Mobility, Flexibility & Conditioning that NEVER Quits.

Whether you're a Coach, a Combat athlete, active duty Military or LEO, this Video Course will give you the knowledge to take your training & performance to new heights.

If you're a Coach, this is an opportunity to arm yourself with knowledge to change the lives of your students.

If you're an athlete or an adult doing what we call "Training for Life" - this is the training methods you need to follow to ensure you are prepared for life or work, especially when The Sh-t Hits the fan!

If You're Always Ready, You Never Have to Get Ready!

As I've gotten older (Age 46 at the time of this writing) I feel that I lose my mobility and overall athleticism when I get away from regular use of Kettlebells. I notice the same thing in the athletes I train.

The barbell will always be the King of the weight room, but "Strong & Useless" is never our goal. When there is too much focus on the barbell lifts, your body feels beat up, tight and immobile. For athletics, you need to be able to move. You need athleticism.

Implementing the training from this Video series will give you the advantage you need.

One of the athletes I used to train in the early 2000s became a Coach at The Underground Strength Gym after 2010. He then was hired at a D1 University and we had a conversation where he told me.......

I felt my most athletic and most explosive when I used Sleds, Kettlebells and Bodyweight. The barbell made me strong but I always felt like I was a step slower compared to Sleds, Kettlebells and Bodyweight. 

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The Coach

Zach Even-Esh

Zach Even - Esh is the founder & owner of The Underground Strength Gym and began training athletes full time in 2002. Since then, Zach has trained athletes ranging from youth to the D1 level on a daily basis. In 2008 Zach created The Underground Strength Coach Certification and in 2020, Zach created The SSPC Cert (Strength & Sports Performance Coach). Zach has coached at Rutgers & Lehigh University while working with their wrestling teams, consults with D1 Coaches and has also consulted for NSW (Naval Special Warfare). Zach continues to train athletes and on average works with 150 athletes each day. With over 25 years of Coaching experience, Zach has been sought after worldwide for training expertise.

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3 Third Level RPOs for Explosive Plays

• By Keith Grabowski

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Defenses are getting better and better in how they defend the RPO.  Having a mechanism to attack their aggressiveness can provide answers and explosive plays.

One answer to RPO is to cover down and allow the safeties to get down into the box for the run fit.  Of course, aggressive safeties expose the defense to big plays and that’s exactly what these RPOs are designed to attack

Maryland Popsicle

Maryland Head Coach Mike Locksley has established himself as one of the top offensive thinkers in terms of how to attack defenses with RPO. He did it as the OC at Alabama and now is continuing to do it at Maryland.

His “Popsicle” RPO attacks the third-level defender (safety) who is aggressively fitting the box.  In the video example, they do it off of Power with the same side read of the safety.  

Coach Locksley understands the details that make this play successful.  He explains the coaching points on the QB-RB mesh as well as what he calls “100 to 90” for the receiver

Western Michigan Double Glance

Head Coach at Western Michigan Tim Lester has made the RPO a big part of the Broncos attack.  He likes to attack level 3 while giving the QB options.  

An offense, especially the QB, is not always able to know which safety will trigger.  In order to give the QB opportunities on a 3rd level RPO, WMU will utilize double glance which gives the QB the ability to attack either side of the defense based on which safety fits. He explains the concept here

Wake Forest Route Behind

The slower mesh is utilized on their RPO’s with the quarterback spending extra time riding the mesh with the running back to be able to see his key pull and throw the ball for a big play.  It makes the 3rd Level RPO a very viable part of their attack.

The outside zone with a crack route by the receiver makes this a very difficult play to defend.  Head Coach Dave Clawson illustrates the play in this video

Bonus Play - Manheim Central HS Play Action off of RPO:RPO:

Adding third-level RPO does require time in practice to allow the QB to understand the picture and the read.  One way to maintain a 3rd level attack as part of the RPO offense is to call it for the QB by making it a play action. 

That’s exactly what Manheim Central HC Dave Hahn does with this play-action concept.  Seeing that the safety is aggressively fitting on the run allows this big play opportunity.  

Since it is just a call it does not require the QB to read for Run or Pass.  He can sell a great fake and draw the safety down then hit the skinny post for a big play

As the cliche goes, “It’s about who has the chalk last.”  The third level RPO is a logical progression in the RPO attack and whether you create concepts that read the triggering safety or simply add play action to stretch the defense and expose the aggressiveness, attacking level three this fall will provide your offense huge benefits.

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Win Downfield - Attacking Different Areas Deep with 3rd Level RPO

• By Coach Grabowski
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For teams that are RPO-heavy in their attack, the defense will start to take away conflict by bringing a safety down into the box either pre-snap by alignment or by rotation in buzzing a safety down into the box.

With this move, they effectively equate numbers in the run, and the underneath passing windows are typically left open by a 2nd level player whose run-fits are now taken away.

This creates the necessity of having vertical answers.  An offense can drop back and use seam reads or choice routes, but the objective of any RPO is to run the ball while having a protection answer.

Of course, the RPO can remain the call by simply shifting to a 3rd Level RPO. Most of these are designed with some sort of underneath throws still available with quick routes or key screens.  When the offense is successful with these, then the defense needs to decide if it really wants to bring that extra defender down.

Today, we will take a look at three 3rd Level RPO with the Glance, Bender, and Slot Fade and how each attacks a void in the defense.

Glance

If the backside safety comes down, then Glance is a favorite for many programs.  These typically are run as a 5-step break. 

Glance can be run to the field as well. At Alabama, they call it “pop.” The idea is to attack space as Alabama WR Coach Holmon Wiggins points out in this video:

Glance is fine to the field as well, but you have to be wary of the backside safety.  Noel Mazzone has his receivers flatten it out to what he calls a grass glance.  The purpose is to not bring the Glance into the safety. 

Bender

Another option is to use a Bender route allowing the receiver to bend into the void rather than giving a distinct break.  This type of route comes into play versus different rotations but it allows the offense to attack a void in the middle of the defense with an easy throw.  Former Averett OC Kirkland Brown explains it off of a gap scheme in this video:

Slot Fade

Glance and Bender bring the receivers into the middle of the field, so safeties are always a danger, but the slot fade attacks a different void of the defense and can be protected with back shoulder throws as well.

Former SDSU OC Jeff Hecklinski explains the Slot Fade RPO here:

Defenses are getting better and better in how they defend RPO.  Having a mechanism to attack their aggressiveness can provide answers and explosive plays.

Planning for some 3rd Level RPO answers can be an effective way to get the chalk back for the offense.

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Designing & Implementing A School-Wide Athletic Development Program

by Adam Szabo

Description

Even if you are a personal trainer, have trained one particular team, or own your own gym, organizing a school-wide training program has very unique challenges.  This course is a detailed description of how to design and implement workouts and how to navigate scheduling and logistical concerns.

For the last 13 years, Exclerate Athletic Development has been training individual athletes, high school programs, entire athletic departments, and club programs, while also offering consulting services for schools and programs that are looking to develop their own school-wide program.  During that time, we have won 6 Ohio State Championships, in 5 sports, at 4 different schools.  One of our greatest accomplishments has been winning an individual or state championship, at every school, within the first four years and within the first cycle of athletes.  Along with winning 6 Ohio State Championships, we have also been the State Runner-Up 6 times in 6 different sports and to the Final Four 4 times in 3 different sports. 

On top of this, our athletic development program has been used by Midland Baseball in Cincinnati, Ohio.  During this time, we have won 5 AABC National Championships and finished Runner-Up once.

In this course, the following information will be covered:

• Creating and measuring goals
• Staffing a school-wide program
• Being creative with available school spaces
• How to train large groups simultaneously
• Developing training workouts and schedules
• Differentiating training for a variety of sports and athletes
• Implementing a school-wide testing program
• How to design different portions and phases of workouts

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The Indoor Football League On US Sports Featuring: Duke City Gladiators at Bay Area Panthers

 Wrapping up Week 18, the Duke City Gladiators (2-12) take on the top team in the Western Conference, the Bay Area Panthers (11-3). Following their loss last week, will the Panthers bounce back this week against the Gladiators, or can Duke City pull off the upset on Saturday night?

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Building Beasts Strength & Speed Complete Package

by Lee Weber 

This is course is a complete bundle of all the 5 Buidling Beast Manuals created by Lee Weber, CSCS. a 22 year veteran strength and speed coach at the high school level.  Learn more @ 

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The Indoor Football League On US Sports: Quad City Steamwheelers at Massachusetts Pirates

 Bringing Week 15 to a close on Monday night, the Quad City Steamwheelers (6-6) face off against the Massachusetts Pirates (7-6) in a highly anticipated Eastern Conference matchup. Going into this game, the Pirates are in the third spot with Quad City closely behind in the fourth, as only the top four teams make it to the playoffs.

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5 Core Offensive Priniciples for a Winning Football Formula

• By Keith Grabowski

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When he was 26, Scotty Walden was the youngest head coach in college football.  Now at the ripe old age of 30, and the Head Coach of Austin Peay, he’s still one of the youngest D1 coaches in the country. 

We had the privilege of hosting Scotty Walden as a presenter at Lauren’s First and Goal. He discuss the evolution of his offensive principles, which have led them to three consecutive winning seasons and a conference championshiped them to three consecutive winning seasons and a conference championship. The energy and enthusiasm he has about the game is contagious!

The Five Core Offensive Principles

#1) Ball Security

The first and most important principle is ball security. It's crucial for players to understand that they must protect the football at all costs. Turning the ball over to the opposing team greatly increases their chances of winning, so ball security is paramount.

#2) Tempo

Playing at a fast pace is essential for a successful offense. The team trains to snap the ball every 12 seconds, ensuring that they can wear down the defense and maintain a high level of execution throughout the game. This requires a strong commitment to conditioning and practice, as well as a well-coordinated strength and conditioning program.

#3) Execution

The third principle is all about executing plays at an extremely high level. This means that the playbook must be comprehensive and adaptable, allowing for a wide range of plays to be called quickly and efficiently. The key is to make the game plan as simple as possible for the players while still being complex enough to challenge the opposing defense.

#4) Balance 

A balanced offense is one that can effectively run and pass the ball, regardless of the weather conditions or the specific opponent. This adaptability ensures that the offense can take advantage of any defensive weaknesses and keep the opposition guessing.

#5) Coaching with a Defensive Mindset

Finally, the team believes in coaching offense with a defensive mentality. This means that practices are intense and physical, with a focus on blocking, hard hits, and relentless effort. This approach instills a sense of toughness and determination in the players, preparing them for the challenges of game day.

Developing the RPO Football Game

Coach Walden has also heavily invested in developing their RPO game. Here’s a sneak peek at how they work Quick Side & Decide Side in RPOs and execution in a critical situation:

Coach Walden also talks about the execution of the RPO game and how to make sure your team is firing on game day in the video below.

There’s definitely some takeaways to help create  a championship-winning offensive system. Mastering the five core principles of ball security, tempo, execution, balance, and coaching with a defensive mindset can make a difference in any type of offense.

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Amanda Ruller - Speed Training For Football

Amanda Ruller shares a comprehensive approach to training football athletes for speed.  From an understanding of sprint mechanics to drills tech them, she illustrates how to train each position for speed on the football field.  She concludes with sharing effective coaching cues for teaching speed and puts it all together in an example plan.

Amanda Ruller is currently the running backs coach at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.  She recently served in the role of assistant running backs coach for the Seattle Seahawks through the Bill Walsh Diversity Fellowship program.

Her unique background in strength and conditioning, data and analytics, and sports media, as well as he experience as an elite multisport athlete is something she is leveraging to advance herself in the profession. Learn more and get started today!

 

The Indoor Football League On US Sports - Frisco Fighters at San Antonio Gunslingers

 Kicking off Week 16, the Frisco Fighters (10-3) face off against the San Antonio Gunslingers (6-6) in a cross-conference battle. With San Antonio on the outside of playoff contention, they’ll look to come away with the win to climb the Western Conference, while Frisco could clinch a home playoff game with a win.

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Training a Championship QB

by Todd Dodge

Description

Having the quarterback who stands at the middle of the field in December and raises the state championship trophy begins with clear expectations.  Beyond being an accurate passer, Coach Dodge shares the characteristics that he must see from his quarterback.

Coach explains the aspects of training a quarterback including his “3 camera” coaching point to help the quarterback understand the “stroke” of throwing a football which helps with accuracy. 

Dodge spends a good portion of the presentation covering how the quarterback’s footwork must match the concept. Coach demonstrates how they think about calibrating their passing game with proper footwork illustrating their methods with drill and game film. 

He shares how they drill the quarterbacks in all aspects of developing their technique including RPO execution.

If you are looking for a comprehensive approach laid out step-by-step for developing your QB, this course has you covered. Learn more and book this course....