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    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Football
    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Football
    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Football
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    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Football

    By Rob Price

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    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Football is the most comprehensive and up-to-date football-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of nearly 100 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round football-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.

    No other Football book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book will have players of all positions and skill levels increasing strength, agility, and power dramatically resulting in more touchdowns, crisper and harder tackles, and the flat-out domination of opponents all over the field.

    Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrice World Publishing
    Release dateOct 31, 2011
    ISBN9781936910922
    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Football

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      The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Football - Rob Price

      The

      Ultimate Guide to

      WEIGHT

      TRAINING

      for

      FOOTBALL

      fouth edition

      Prior to beginning any exercise program, you must consult with your physician.You must also consult your physician before increasing the intensity of your training.

      Any application of the recommended material in this book is at the sole risk of the reader, and at the reader’s discretion. Responsibility of any injuries or other negative effects resulting from the application of any of the information provided within this book is expressly disclaimed.

      Published by Price World Publishing

      1300 W. Belmont Ave, Suite 20g

      Chicago, IL 60657

      Copyright © 2006 by Robert G. Price CPT.

      All rights reserved. Neither this book, nor any parts within it may be sold or reproduced in any form without permission.

      Book design by Jocelyn H. Hermozada

      Cover design by Alexandru Dan Georgescu

      Interior photographs by Marc Gollub

      Editing by Barb Greenberg

      Editing and proofreading by Maryanne Haselow-Dulin

      Printing by Express Media

      Fourth edition: 2006

      ISBN 13: 978-1-936910-92-2

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4

      The

      Ultimate Guide to

      WEIGHT

      TRAINING

      for

      FOOTBALL

      fourth edition

      Robert G. Price CPT

      CONTENTS

      Part I

      FOOTBALL-SPECIFIC TRAINING

      Introduction

      Off-Season Training

      Preseason Training

      In-Season Training

      Tips on Improving Your 40 Yard Dash

      Speed and Power Training for the 40

      Part II

      GETTING STARTED

      Warming Up

      Cooling Down

      Abs

      Stretching

      Proper Form

      Proper Breathing

      Part III

      RECOMMENDED EXERCISES

      Substituting Similar Exercises

      Chest Exercises

      Back (Lats) Exercises

      Shoulders Exercises

      Triceps Exercises

      Biceps/Forearms Exercises

      Legs Exercises

      Part IV

      THE NECESSITIES

      Perfecting Your Technique

      Estimating Your One-Rep Max

      The Different Folks, Different Strokes Principle

      Overtraining and Staleness

      The Declaration of Variation

      Muscle Fibers

      Training Techniques

      When to Increase

      Safety Reminders

      Record Keeping

      Test Yourself

      Conclusion

      Part V

      SUPPLEMENTAL 4-WEEK PROGRAMS

      Endurance/Stamina/Fat-burning Programs

      General Fitness/Power Programs

      Strength Programs

      Part I

      FOOTBALL

      Specific

      Training

      With Weight

      Training,

      KNOWLEDGE

      IS THE KEY

      TO SUCCESS

      INTRODUCTION

      Football is a sport of strength; it is a sport of speed; and it is a sport of power. It is a unique sport because to be competitive, size and strength are equally, if not more, important than skill. A player could have outstanding technique, perfect fundamentals, and the best positive mental attitude imaginable, but if he is a 135 lb. middle linebacker playing in a game where the average body weight on the field is 215 lbs., he will get squashed. Weight-training is an essential part of football. Without it, a player will be pancaked, stuffed, run over, outrun, out jumped, and out played.

      Regardless of your position, football requires strength, speed, power, quickness, agility, flexibility, balance, muscular endurance, and stamina, each of which can be enhanced through a proper football-specific weight-training program. This book focuses on how to develop your body in every area that is most important to the sport. It also provides you with daily football-specific programs designed for the off-season, preseason, and in-season to maximize your potential. The goal of the yearlong routine is to have you peaking with strength and power right at the onset of the season.

      Requirements needed to be a good football player are skill and technique and strength and power. If you are looking to increase your fundamentals, work with your coach. If you are looking to increase your physical abilities, follow the programs provided in this book. An important note must be made clear. Weight-training will not directly improve your football skills. It will make your entire body stronger and more powerful, enhancing every aspect of your game, decreasing your vulnerability to injury, and increasing your muscular endurance. If you train properly, you will experience all of these benefits without sacrificing your technique on the field.

      In fact, proper weight-training can enhance your technique by improving your flexibility and increasing your range of motion.

      Improper Training

      Training improperly is costly for two reasons. It increases your risk of injury, and it can also set you further away from your goals. The goal of strength training for football is not to build stiff, tight muscles; it is to improve your football-playing potential by increasing your speed, quickness, power, flexibility, muscular endurance, and balance. You want to build your muscles and improve flexibility in areas that are specifically used during your performance on the field.

      Major Benefits from Weight-Training

      Weight training for any sport provides you with two general benefits. It helps to enhance your athletic performance and it helps to prevent and reduce injuries. Weight-training also plays a major role in injury rehabilitation. Muscles that are well trained have been shown to recover faster from injuries, which will help keep you away from chronic pains. Football is an outdoor sport and players are at the mercy of Mother Nature, who can be very unpleasant at times. Unfortunately, cold and wet weather elevate the risk of many injuries including sprains and pulled muscles. With stronger muscles supporting your bones, tendons, and ligaments, you will be much less injury prone in all aspects of your life.

      Common Football Injuries

      Because football is a contact sport by its very definition, football players have a higher risk of injuries. Some of the most common injuries experienced by football players are knee injuries and hamstring pulls. They can occur in all sorts of activities including tackling, running, and blocking. Hamstring, knee, ACL and MCL injuries can be devastating to a player and to his team, making lower body training critical. Although weight-training cannot eliminate the risk of such injuries, it can help protect a player from such occurrences. Training the muscles surrounding the knee is a good way to prevent these injuries. Performing both leg-extending (thighs) and leg-contracting (hamstring) exercises on the same day through their entire range of motion both strengthens and increases the flexibility in the knee and hamstring.

      Injuries in the shoulder and elbow are also somewhat common for football players, especially quarterbacks. These injuries negatively affect every aspect of a player’s game, whether throwing, catching, blocking, or tackling, making it necessary to take all injury-reducing precautions. Always stretch before lifting and playing, and be sure to weight train properly. The programs provided in this book are designed to train these and other areas of the body to help minimize chances of getting injured. The programs have quarterbacks strengthening both the internal and external rotators of their rotator cuffs to help maintain injury-free shoulders. The programs also require everyone to perform both arm-extending (triceps) exercises and arm-contracting (biceps) exercises through their entire range of motion during the same training session to reduce the chances of elbow injuries, increasing both the strength and flexibility

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