What Goes Into a Good Off-Season Strength & Conditioning Program? When trying to create an off-season program for your team, the obvious element is developing the strongest athletes possible. With a good program though, strength is just a by-product of [...]
"Appropriate blocking should try to avoid hyperextension of the low back, especially in younger athletes to avoid the development of a stress fracture in the low back. Some extension is appropriate with good core and low back strength in more [...]
What is Relative Squat Depth? When it comes to the squat, every coach seems to have a set of beliefs or values on what a “good” squat looks like. Many coaches define a good squat as a deep “butt to [...]
What is a Positive Coaching Environment? Why Creating a Positive Coaching Environment is Important Through my football career I’ve been a part of both positive and negative coaching environments. I’ve been a part of meeting rooms where players were looked [...]
What is Grip Strength? When discussing the importance of grip strength, it is important to understand the anatomy of the hand, wrist and forearm to truly understand how important grip strength is for the offensive line athlete. The hand is [...]
What: The Art of Mindfulness This is the art of being able to self assess in the moment. Every stimulus we’re presented with will result in a response. Often times that response comes in the form of a reaction. The [...]
What: The Mechanical Advantage We Use To Stop or Move a Defender Why: P2P Comes Down to Leverage Why: Being "Low" Creates a Mechanical Disadvantage So far in this week’s What, Why, How series, we’ve learned that each offensive line [...]
What: Being an Offensive Line Athlete vs Being Just One Position Why: Availability At some point in every offensive line athlete’s career, there has likely been a period of time where they have had to play a position that felt [...]
What: What is the VMO? The VMO is one of the most important muscles to build and strengthen when it comes to being an o-line athlete. VMO stands for “vastus medialis oblique”, but most people know it as the teardrop [...]
What: A "Heavy Squat" Is Relative A “heavy” squat is relative to the player. We look across the landscape of social media and it appears that everyone is bending bars on every rep. There’s music blaring, crowds cheering, and chalk [...]
