Crusader

How many standouts has there been in higschool that didn't go to college because they were a little to slow or a little to weak but good and solid footballplayers. The same happens between college and the pros, guys that has been stars are quickly disregarded because they run two tenths of a second to slow on the 40 yard dash. You see it happen every year.

The point I'm trying to make is the fact that there are thousand and thousands of really good footballplayers out there who lack the physical tools to take the game to the next level. I never said athletic ability is the ONLY thing you need but that it is very important. Of course there will always be guys who has all the physical tools like Vick or Gholston but that can't get it together on the field.

I've been involved in 4 (or 5 depending on how you count) diffrent football programs and have a great insight in a lot of other, no pro Team thou. What I've seen so far is that most teams, like most people in a gym, focus on the base lifts like squat, bench and deadlift. Depending on what philosophy you have when it comes to lifting people tend to combine that with the either the olympic lifts, snatch, clean, jerk etc or with other auxillary lifts.

What I refer to when I say MMA training is closer to crossfit but not quite there either. Still it involves a lot of complex exercises, high reps and high intensity, a lot of dynamic stretching (close to MAQ I would say). And yes also the martial art part of it, the kicking but especially the punching.

Actually a lot of studies shows that practising multiple sports is really good, a good example is combining football and track and field. The track will help you improve your speed if you are a WR or say an OL who is a shotputter wil get more explosive and also work a lot of balance.


I can get footwork and fluent hips doing football drills because guess what? there are football drills that do just that. Flexibility, you get that by stretching, and that is not particular to any sport.. stiff ankles? I don't know about that.. back in the day when I played football, I taped my ankles, so they were pretty stiff.. I take it that all those NFL players who tape their ankles, their ankles are as stiff as mine were, probably even more, since they have people doing the taping for them

Yes you can get fluent hips doing football drills. i personally believe that there is more effective ways thou. And when it comes to stretching the latest research shows that dynamic stretching is the best.

There has also been a lot of research on th etopic of taped ankles and most information seems to say that taping your ankles actually makes it harder for you to make cuts and most importantly increases the risk for knee injuries since you lock on joint that would otherwise help you to not get yor leg in angles that might cause injuries.

W.T. Sherman is my favorite General. After all he did order Atlanta to be burned to the ground.