party pooper!Just to be clear the tweet said that he had 27 guys bench 400 at Toledo, not that he improved ISU's bench press from 1 guy to 27 already.
party pooper!Just to be clear the tweet said that he had 27 guys bench 400 at Toledo, not that he improved ISU's bench press from 1 guy to 27 already.
I've never heard of a football program implementing C & J or snatches. Power Cleans, yes, but full clean and jerks and snatch are too technical and require too much individual attention. Football programs don't have enough coaches or time to do such lifts.I hope they rely more on core lifts like bench, squat, clean and jerk, snatch, dead lift. We did the Nebraska strength program when I was in high school, and let me tell you, it beefed you up. It's embarrassing that we don't have many benching 400 lbs when we are talking about men who weigh 290-325 lbs. I assume Rhoads had more focus on the squat, than other core lifts. If you're going to choose one, that would be the right one to choose I suppose.
I've never heard of a football program implementing C & J or snatches. Power Cleans, yes, but full clean and jerks and snatch are too technical and require too much individual attention. Football programs don't have enough coaches or time to do such lifts.
....also in a stance for a lineman their action for blocking is a bench press motion almost to a T.
I've never heard of a football program implementing C & J or snatches. Power Cleans, yes, but full clean and jerks and snatch are too technical and require too much individual attention. Football programs don't have enough coaches or time to do such lifts.
http://cyclonefanatic.com/football/...ngth-conditioning-coordinator-yancy-mcknight/
Re-read this. Yancy talks at length about how bad things were when they arrived in 2009.
I've never heard of a football program implementing C & J or snatches. Power Cleans, yes, but full clean and jerks and snatch are too technical and require too much individual attention. Football programs don't have enough coaches or time to do such lifts.
Your HS program had kids doing full snatches and CJ (meaning, catching the bar below parallel)? I find that hard to believe. But, if they were I'm willing to bet most of the kids were using poor form and thus were prone to injury.Interesting we did it in high school, guess our coaches were ahead of the curve. Multi joint systemic workouts are the only way to go in my book. There's a reason they're called Olympic lifts, they're the ones that matter.
Stanford doesn't emphasize the bench press (they use it, but doubt they have many benching 400 lbs) and they are one of the most physical teams in college football - as in pummeling Iowa on both sides of the line of scrimmage.
Your HS program had kids doing full snatches and CJ (meaning, catching the bar below parallel)? I find that hard to believe. But, if they were I'm willing to bet most of the kids were using poor form and thus were prone to injury.
Bench is the most worthless lift an athlete can do, its good for making your arms look nice for the ladies but bench strength doesn't translate to athleticism or total body strength. Squating, hang clean, those are much more important. They work out nearly every joint in the body, nearly every common football injury is related to some joint in the body. Besides, strength is nothing without coordination.
It makes me laugh when people say things like 400 isn't much. 400 is still a lot for a 300 lber. If you're 6'7" and have a 38" shirt sleeve 400 takes much more force than a 230 lber with much shorter arms. 1 rep max isn't nearly as important of a number as 225 rep max. That number gives you a better idea of wether someone can maintain explosiveness with stamina.
Also the most important core lift for football especially OL is cleans followed by squat. Bench is a distant third. In reality incline is a more natural football motion than bench.
People get far too worked up about 1 rep max numbers.
ISU had more talent the UNI, NDSU, Toledo, yet they got pushed around by those teams. They also have better facilities, and spend more money on getting the players game ready. The rash of injuries was another weird thing. People say the S&C had nothing to do with it but at some point you have to question it when you get similar injuries over and over and get so many season ending injuries.
Yeah bench press isn't that important of a lift when it comes to football but it's nice to see that they are getting stronger
Having worked a lot with those same treadmills and kids of that age, doing interval sprints on those treadmills is a lot harder than lifting heavy weights. 99% of the kids I have trained would rather be lifting than sprinting on treadmills. And if you think the treadmills do the work for you, you've never sprinted up a 30-40% incline at maximal effort and speed.
You think Lazard doesn't weigh enough? You'd like him to beef up to 250 and move to tight end? I don't remember us getting pushed around by UNI and Toledo last year.
It's always a good topic for PR when a coaching change happens. As this thread shows 99% of fans don't have the experience, ability, or access to evaluate a S&C program. Hard to wade through the coach speak when you don't understand it.
They made statements in the past about how the last SC program didn't want to bulk kids up because they wanted them stay faster to play in space better. To me this means they may have been having them do lighter weights with higher reps. I don't know, but just guessing. If that is true, it isn't crazy to believe what the new coaches are saying. It isn't like they are just using basic terms like "we need to get stronger". They put numbers to it
Getting pushed around isn't the main reason we have been getting beat. Speed, lack of execution and poor judgement by previous coaching staff.