It is the end of February and at most high schools all the boys are thinking about is Track practice and Baseball practice. Not here at EPHS, we have a core group of young men that still believe that Friday is game day. These football players have been working and thinking about a league championship sense the clock hit zero against Ashland in November of 2009! We have yet to determine what league that will be, but we WILL be contending for a league championship regardless. When November of 2010 rolls around the town of EP will be shut down and the new lights at the stadium will be shinning strong and the Eagles will showcase their talent that has not been on the state platform sense 1997 I believe. We are 95 days away from Spring Football and I have not felt this good about the kids coming back, the work they are willing to put in, and the season in general, in a long time.
Below are some Highlights of Oregon putting the hurt to Cal this past season, O-Line take note on Oregon's Lineman at the end of plays:
Inside and Outside Zone executed pretty well here:
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Great Start to the Spring Semester
Athletes had a very hard three weeks of training. We spent three full weeks in our Hypertrophy phase. The Hypertrophy phase is where we are looking to increase muscle size and also build a base for this Cycle. We finished these three weeks of a Meso-cycle and I feel really good about how it went. I was a little disappointed in our athletes numbers in their squat maxes in January. I am starting to feel better about them because we made an emphasis on them for three weeks, I threw out the Bench Press after three days into the meso-cycle, hoping it would ignite some motivation in the athletes to get there squat numbers up.
I have found that the squats and its variations are the hardest the get the athletes to buy into. Myself, as an educated person and a guy who has been in the field for a while, I see the athletes that get after it in the squat rack are also the ones that run faster and jump higher, and in the game of football, they are the better tacklers and the hardest to tackle.
With all that being said about the squats, I am still a bigger fan of the Power Clean and the Snatch because of the power output they require. Power is equal to Force X Distance Divided by time. An example would be when an athlete lifts 100 pounds in the snatch. Force is 100 pounds X approximately 4 feet Divided by roughly 1 second. This equals 400 Ft/pounds per second, which is much more powerful then a 300 pound Bench Press, which equals 215 Ft/pounds per second.
I have found that the squats and its variations are the hardest the get the athletes to buy into. Myself, as an educated person and a guy who has been in the field for a while, I see the athletes that get after it in the squat rack are also the ones that run faster and jump higher, and in the game of football, they are the better tacklers and the hardest to tackle.
With all that being said about the squats, I am still a bigger fan of the Power Clean and the Snatch because of the power output they require. Power is equal to Force X Distance Divided by time. An example would be when an athlete lifts 100 pounds in the snatch. Force is 100 pounds X approximately 4 feet Divided by roughly 1 second. This equals 400 Ft/pounds per second, which is much more powerful then a 300 pound Bench Press, which equals 215 Ft/pounds per second.
Friday, February 5, 2010
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