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Coach Rick Torbett is known worldwide for the development of the Read and React Offense, a system for implementing 5-player coordination without the use of set plays.  In this course, Rick Torbett will teach you adjustments to your teaching strategies when using the Read and React Offense when attacking Zone Defenses. As a Read and React coach, Coach Torbett does not want you to have to change from the Read and React actions that your team already knows. This course details how to take what your team already knows about the Read and React Offense and apply it to attacking zones. This course will cover strategies for how Rick Torbett would attack each type of Zone Defense. In addition, the course contains a comprehensive team drill library and detailed instructions on how to guide your team to implementing these actions from the Read and React Offense when facing Zone Defense.

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This three-move workout will absolutely light up your chest, with very little equipment needed. Power and strength, pumps, and the seriously good kind of soreness? Check, check, and check.

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December 12, 2019 • 4 min read

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Chest day is too short to spend it waiting for someone else to move off of your favorite bench press station or a machine—and then hopefully wipe it down afterward.
Cellucor athlete Scott Mathison knows this. It's one reason why he's constantly scouting—and creating—movements that maximally hit the big muscle groups with minimum equipment needed.
Mathison's recipe for a solid, short, and serious chest workout is one that any lifter could learn from:
Step 1. Start with a big, powerful movement to activate and strengthen every muscle fiber in the chest.
Step 2. Wring the life out of those fibers with a couple of solid accessories: one for the upper chest, one for the lower.
No, you don't need 20 sets on chest day to do this! Just 12 targeted, intense sets will make it happen. And what's even better, all you need is a single pair of weights and a decline bench. Pretty sure you can manage that.
You can work any of these movements into your regularly scheduled chest day, but a better approach is to try the three in a series and make that your entire chest day for a few weeks. Yes, it'll probably be quicker than what you're doing now. But it'll also be every bit as good, and the first time around, make you every bit as sore.

1. For Whole-Chest Power and Strength: Falling Knee Push-Up

Mathison is known for his high-flying 360 push-ups, falling push-ups, and other bodyweight feats. But you can't even sniff at, say, a superman push-up until you're a seasoned vet at explosive upper-body work like this falling knee push-up.

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But aside from the show-off moves you can maybe do someday, if you want to show off pecs that can truly pop at a moment's notice—and not after 15 minutes of pumping them up like a flat bike tire—you need push-ups like this in your arsenal.
Why it works: Nothing turns on your fast-twitch, type-II muscle fibers as effectively as explosive power training. It trains your muscles to generate maximum force out of each rep, helping boost your strength ceiling. And lucky you, these are also the muscle fibers with the greatest potential for growth.
Falling knee push-ups move your chest muscles through a significant range of motion, with plenty of intensity, but without the risk of dropping a barbell on your grill or jacking up your shoulder by trying to bench press as quickly as possible. Yes, ending up face-down on the ground is a possibility, but that's why you should cut each set right when the reps start slowing down.
Scott's tips:

• Really push hard and explode off the floor. Yes, this will carry over to your bench!
• Really emphasize the negative on the way down. Let your chest touch and lightly break your "fall." 
• If you are doing this on hard ground, use a pad for your knees!

The perfect dose: Build up to 4 sets of 15 reps, with a solid 2-3-minute rest between each set. But seriously: Stop each set while you're still moving fast. And if you can't do even one rep—no shame there—you have options. Try doing them to a stable step or low bench, or with a band looped around your torso from an overhead pull-up bar.

2. For the Upper Chest: Reverse-Grip Push-Up

You're done with the power, now it's time to grind. Sure, you could hit the bench or dumbbells, but after seriously taxing your chest with your first move, you're in a perfect position to get maximum benefit out of a movement that may seem too easy otherwise—like push-ups.
But you're not just doing any push-up here. Scott recommends you turn your hands around and try them with a reverse-grip. Yes, it'll take some getting used to, but the payoff is worth it.

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Why it works: Bodybuilders have been saying for years that reverse-grip presses are exceptional for targeting the upper chest. A Canadian study from 2005 backed it up, determining that a reverse-grip bench press hits the clavicular (upper) portion of the pecs 30 percent more than a flat bench does.[1] Compare that with the incline bench press, which a number of studies have shown doesn't increase clavicular activation at all—or just by a measly few percentage points.[2]
The problem with the reverse-grip bench, of course, is that it just feels sketchy as hell with any significant weight. These feel strong, and after a solid 4 sets, you'll be a believer. Oh, and they absolutely destroy the triceps, too.
Scott's Tips:

• Stretch your wrists prior to this exercise to help you get as close to a true reverse-facing grip. 
• Keep your elbows close to you body throughout the rep to keep form strict and hammer the triceps. 
• Flex the chest at the top of each rep. After 15-20 reps, you should feel these burning like crazy. 

The perfect dose: Build up to 4 sets of 20 reps.

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3. For the Lower Chest: Decline Fly with Crunch

After the first two moves, you're probably all pressed out. So it's time to focus on the stretch and shred with Scott's combo move of choice, the decline dumbbell fly and crunch.

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Why it works: The decline fly mimics the high-to-low cable cross-over, a classic movement to work the pecs while cutting out the shoulders almost entirely.
Why the crunch? For one, it forces you to pause and squeeze the dumbbells together for a solid second or two on each rep. But contracting your abs hard, like you have to do in order to do a weighted decline crunch, is also a great way to make every other muscle in your upper body co-contract harder along with them.
And finally, because abs. You needed to work them anyway, didn't you? And if you've tried any of Scott's other workouts on Bodybuilding.com, you know they tend to make the abs work seriously hard, even if they aren't pure "abs" workouts.
Scott's tips:

• Try to use your chest as much as possible for each rep, not your arms. Have to use light weights? Do it. 
• Pause and squeeze your chest muscles together at the top of each rep. Doing these from a decline can help to "feel" this.
• If your ab endurance is keeping you from being able to adequately work your chest, split the moves up. Do flies, then abs. Or if you struggle with the chest fly, just do the overhead dumbbell crunch to train abs. It'll hit your shoulders and chest, too. 

The perfect dose: 4 sets of 10 reps.

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eferences

1. Lehman, G. J. (2005). The influence of grip width and forearm pronation/supination on upper-body myoelectric activity during the flat bench press. The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research, 19(3), 587-591.
2. Barnett, C., Kippers, V., & Turner, P. (1995). Effects of variations of the bench press exercise on the EMG activity of five shoulder muscles. The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research, 9(4), 222-227.

About the Author

Nick Collias

Nick Collias is the Executive Editor at Bodybuilding.com.

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The NFL reminds us every so often that imitation is the best form of flattery. Year after year, teams take what succeeds and add their touch to it.

Looking toward the 2020 NFL Draft, general managers around the league will be trying to recreate the success which Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens enjoy. Which QB in the 2020 NFL Draft possesses the same traits that Jackson does?

Despite the success he achieved in Tuscaloosa, Hurts didn't record the passing and rushing numbers at Alabama as he has in Norman. In his three seasons playing for Nick Saban, he threw for a combined 5,626 yards while throwing 48 TD. 

SCARY NUMBERS DURING 2017 SPRING TESTING

Like those who came before him, Hurts was excellent running the ball in leading the Tide's offense, running for 1,976 yards and 23 TD in his three seasons at Alabama. His speed and strength became legend among teammates during the Tide's 2017 spring testing.

Hurts ran the 40-yard dash in 4.48 seconds. In comparison, the fastest time for a quarterback at the 2017 NFL scouting combine was 4.54.

Hurts also had a 315-pound power clean, bench-pressed 355 pounds, squatted 455 pounds and recorded a 9-foot, 9-inch broad jump, a good number in a drill that tests lower body explosiveness.

This season at Oklahoma, Hurts set team records for passing efficiency (200.3), completion percentage (71.8), and yards per pass attempt (11.8). Not bad for someone replacing consecutive Heisman Trophy Winners and first overall selections in the two previous NFL drafts (Baker Mayfield 2018 and Kyler Murray in 2019). He threw for 3,624 yards & 32 touchdowns while running for 1,255 yards & 18 TD. He ran and threw for a TD in 10 games this season, becoming the ninth different QB to accomplish that feat (Lamar Jackson did so at Louisville in 2017). 

Most Times Running & Throwing For TD
Same Game, College Football History
	School
Tim Tebow	Florida	32
Colin Kaepernick	Nevada	28
Jalen Hurts	Alabama/Oklahoma	26
Lamar Jackson	Louisville	25

While Lamar Jackson sets the NFL on fire with his run/pass numbers, he is setting a precedent for what other teams will now look to repeat. 

In 2019, Jackson became the first QB in NFL history to rush for over 1,000 yards and pass for over 3,000 yards in a single-season. 

From a team standpoint, the Ravens were separated by just 71 yards in rushing and passing. They finished as the first team in NFL history to run and pass for 3,000 yards in a single-season. They also set the NFL single-season team record for rushing yards (3,296), breaking the mark held by the 1978 New England Patriots (3,165). It is incredible that in the history of the NFL, no other team featured such balance in running and passing the football. The only other team in NFL history to reach 2,800 yards in each category was the 1978 New England Patriots.

2,800 Team Rushing & Passing Yards
Single-Season, NFL History
		Rushing		Passing
		Yards	TD	Yards	TD
2019 Baltimore Ravens	14-2	3,296>>	21	3,225	37
1978 New England Patriots	11-5	3,165	30	2,800	15
>>NFL Record

While Jackson and the Ravens were making NFL history, Jalen Hurts was making his own at Oklahoma. Hurts joined Johnny Manziel & Lamar Jackson as the only other players in college football to run for 1,200 yards and pass for 3,600 in a single-season. Hurts surpassed both Manziel & Jackson in passing yards, becoming the only player to throw for 3,800 yards & run for 1,200.

3,600 Passing Yards, 1,200 Rushing Yards
QB Single-Season, College Football History			Passing		Rushing
Year		School	Yards	TD	Yards	TD
2012	Johnny Manziel	Texas A&M	3,706	26	1,410	21
2017	Lamar Jackson	Louisville	3,660	27	1,601	18
2019	Jalen Hurts	Oklahoma	3,851	32	1,298	20

For his career, Hurts became the fifth player in college football history to run for 3,000 yards and throw for 9,000. Right below him on that list is Lamar Jackson.

3000 Rushing Yards, 9,000 Passing Yards
NCAA Career
	Passing	TD	Rushing	TD
J.T. Barrett	9,434	104	3,263	43
Colin Kaepernick	10,098	82	4,112	59
Jalen Hurts	9,477	80	3,274	43
Lamar Jackson	9,043	69	4,132	50
Cody Fajardo	9,659	57	3,482	44

I will be very interested to see what teams will take advantage of what unique gifts Jalen Hurts brings to the NFL. I predict his draft stock will skyrocket during the NFL Combine.