Building Muscle

A lot of people think that in order to gain muscle you have to hit the gym everyday and that the more you train the more you will gain. NOT TRUE. If you want to gain muscle then there are some things you will need to know about what to do, but also, what not to do. Follow these three points and you will pack it on in weeks. First of all, to gain weight, you have to eat - A LOT. Okay, pretty obvious, but you can't just go and eat a lot of anything you know! You should be taking in around 20...

FB Strength Training

There is a huge need for strength training for all football players. The ability to put together a strength program takes planning to get the most out of your athletes and to structure it properly. It is both an art and science to plan a strength training program. Here is a quick list of facts that you need to keep in mind concerning your strength training for football. It is not just about how big and bulky you can get - quite the contrary actually. Bigger muscles are not necessarily...

Injury Prevention

Football is a high speed game of violent collisions, and with split second changes of direction. As a result, injuries to muscles and joint structures frequently occur due to the high demands placed upon them to produce, and absorb, force in an instant. Some injuries are unavoidable due to contact, but non-contact injuries can be cut dramatically using smart strength training programs. Muscle pulls are often the result of muscles nearby not doing their job to assist or stabilize...

Youth FB To High School

High Schools of course recruit from grammar schools. Not only 8th grade athletes, but they ask the 8th graders who the best 7th grade athletes are. That way they not only know who to watch but they will also flood his mailbox with school news letters and once in a while a ticket or 2 to the next game. The promotion part of High School football could make for another article but for now I will use the information for a basic knowledge of what a child is up against just entering High School...

BCS or Bust!

For a lot of NCAA Division - 1A football programs getting into a bowl and having a winning season is a successful season. While this is the case for lower-tier and inconsistent BCS conference teams and leading mid-major conference teams, still others have to step up their goals. Texas Tech is a perfect example of this, as Red Raider football has had twelve straight winning seasons and even better yet has won five of the last six bowl games it has appeared in. It is time to step up...

11 Weeks Until Kickoff

It is only 11 weeks until the kickoff of the 2008 NCAA College Football Season. The best part of this week is that it is only 11 Saturdays until the Washington Huskies travel south to face the Oregon Ducks in their opener. Husky Coach Ty Willingham had better have his players ready to win. It is a foregone conclusion that Willingham MUST lead Washington to a winning season and bowl appearance or his time as the Husky coach will be over. Since Willingham started his first season in...

Plays For Scholarships

American professional football has its origins in college football. It remains extremely popular today among students, alumni, and other fans of the sport. Many students who participate in high school football playoffs later join tryouts in football recruiting. Some exceptional students have enough talent to attract the attention of recruiting coaches after making exceptional plays in high school football playoffs. There are many plays in football, one of them being the forward pass....

The 3-5-3 Defense

The 3-5-3 Defense gives you a very powerful defensive scheme. Offering you 4 different defensive fronts you will find it effective against any offense you face, whether it's the Triple Option or the very popular Spread Offense. In the first two seasons the Georgia Military College switched to the 3-5-3 Defense, they had tremendous success, producing 8 All-American Defensive players and playing in two NJCAA national title games. In 2001, Georgia Military had a prefect season, producing...

Improve Football Speed

This means getting to full speed in as little time as possible. Football requires short intense bursts of speed, and the most successful are those that can get to top speed quickly. Remember Barry Sanders? Not the fastest guy on the field but nobody accelerated better which is why he was so hard to bring down. Teaching acceleration however can be tricky. It requires the athlete to apply more force into the ground during push-off to achieve a longer stride and cover more ground...

In-Season Strength

Over the course of a football season, players will experience a decline in strength and power without continued strength training. This obviously will affect performance on the field so continuation of the strength program throughout the season is crucial for success. Ten years ago, in-season weight lifting programs were mostly non-existent at the high school level. Strength training at the college level was done only one to two times a week, and usually after practice...

Football Training Aids

Yes, use steroids, break into the starting line up and maybe get that college scholarship. They are only the football training aids the needed to be bigger, stronger and faster. Anabolic steroids are lightening in a bottle, guaranteed to develop your football skills. Look what they have done for other athletes like Chris Benoit or the late Lyle Alzado and former USA track star Marion Jones. What were they thinking? As of this writing Marion Jones sits in jail for lying...