I started Strength and Conditioning coaching back in 1998 as a personal trainer. I started coaching college rugby back in 2002. My coaching career led me to start and coach a high school team for ten years. During that time in the high school, I also did dryland coaching for some of the winter sports …
6 Mandatory Strength Movements
If you do the six major compound movements – the squat, hip hinge, vertical press, vertical pull, horizontal press, and horizontal pull – you’re bound to see success. These are the movement patterns every complete workout program contains. Problem is, not every variation is best for everybody. Just because a movement looks good on paper …
Fire Up Your CNS For Better Lifting
This is a great way to begin any lifting workout. The idea behind “rate of force development” is to do an exercise that’s explosive in nature and that utilizes all of the body’s major muscle groups. Doing an explosive exercise prior to lifting fires up your central nervous system and gets your body physically ready …
Don’t Short Change the Warm Up
One play, one hit, one rep is all it takes for an athlete to become injured. One of the ways to help prepare ourselves for sport, or for training, is with a warm up. Unfortunately, while the warm up is one of the most important things an athlete can do, time and again, I see …
Unilateral vs. Bilateral Training
For over a decade now, fitness pros have been arguing about unilateral and bilateral training. As a refresher, unilateral means “one side” or “one limb.” Think of a one-arm dumbbell bench press. Bilateral means using both arms or both legs, like a standard barbell bench press or squat. Which one should you put your focus …
10 Tips for Your Best Combine Performance
These combine training tips come straight to you from Parisi Speed School founder, Bill Parisi, and NFL Combine Director and owner of Parisi Speed School Fair Lawn, Rich Sadiv. Parisi Training Systems has produced more top combine ranking athletes than any other organization. Our 25 years of experience and training has produced over 135 NFL …
The Secret to Speed ISN’T Your Legs
When people think of getting faster they think of legs, but speed is directly related to what you do with your arms. The arms stabilize your torso which lets power efficiently transfer through your hips and legs. The tempo of your arms controls the action of your feet. Increasing the speed of a correct arm …
Single Leg Wall Drive
We’ve all seen the wall drive drill, and hopefully our athletes have performed it at home. A newer variation of the wall drive, the single leg wall drive, focuses on back leg extension and glute engagement during the acceleration phase. Back leg extension during the sprint in probably the most under-looked aspect of increasing speed. …
3 Things You Can Do To Get Faster In The Weightroom
Life is full of timeless debates…. Which came first? The chicken or the egg? Peanut butter and jelly? Or Jelly with peanut butter? Is Pizza a pie? Obviously it is, so is quiche a pie? Crusts…fillings….now I’m making you think! Did Dez Bryant catch the ball? Now I’m just being a bitter Cowboys’ fan! …
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Frans Bosch Drills
Learn how to maintain core stiffness during the run, while assessing shoulder movement and ground striking ability. These are all essential to improving speed and efficiency.
Pro Tips for NFL Combine Training
Taking the football combine tests are no different than taking the SATs. When you take an SAT course, there are strategies on how to answer those questions. The same goes for the football combine tests. We’re here to help you ace those tests and reach your goals. For each of the six performance tests, we’ve …
3 Focus Areas of Acceleration
1. Force Output/Projection Factors: Start position ex: Track block stance, Football stance, Baseball stealing a base Transition Start ex: Soccer-breaking on the ball, Lacrosse turnover getting upfield The optimal body angle is 45 degrees to the ground at the initial start. This relates more to a traditional start position. The stronger the athlete, the lower …