Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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What does the research out there on this topic say? When I was in HS we had a coach who was serious about this, and we busted ass. I know that it kept me alive a few times (20 inches in college), and I'm a firm believer that it should be a focal point of a strength program. I want players that are thick necked, but our head coach runs the weight program and we do not focus on this. This one of the few things we differ on. I personally think it is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Your thoughts coaches?
You get my vote on this one too!!! MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF EQUIPMENT IN THE WEIGHT ROOM, IMO. Recently recounted on one of the threads the near death experience of a great LB breaking C-5 and it taking us and the team Doctor 45 minutes to get him stable enough to transport. The team doctor saved his life, without doubt! If you break C-4 or above you can't breathe and even though he broke C-5 he couldn't breathe either. It was an absolute horrifying experience, no other way to describe it. One minute a great athlete performing on game night and in the next he was fighting for his life! He made it, by the grace of god and the skill of the team doctor, but he has been confined to a wheel chair ever since and that was 1988 or so. He was making a tackle with his head down on an off tackle shot and took a knee to the front of his head snapping it back, but the film showed conclusively it was one of our own players coming on the assist that hit him on the side of the head and breaking his neck after the original hit he had made on the ball carrier. From that day to this I have been a preacher of "seeing what you hit" and don't get your head in the wrong position. We never told the boy who hit him and just let it be believed that the impact of the opponents knee did the damage. The kid would have been destroyed as he was a wonderful young man and went on to a brilliant college career.
Coach Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
The neck/upper back is one of the most important areas of the body to have extra mass. Due to the nature of the sport, football players will always have bumps, bruises, etc. in the shoulder/neck area but the more strength and muscle mass you have in those areas, the less chance you have of turning those bumps and bruises into legitimate injuries.
When I got the job at my school 4 years ago there was NO NECK MACHINE. My first season I had 2 starters miss games with neck injuries. It was literally the first piece of new wt room equipment I ordered. How could in this day and age my predecessor run a program without one (well he did not EVER open the wt room anyway so I guess it was par for the course). Since then I have had zero (knock on wood) neck injuries to players on my team. We do it 2x a week and do 2 sets of 10 reps for each of the 4-ways. We also do shrigs, and other exercises to add mass to the shoudler/neck area for the same reasons jimbo mentions. Great point. NO PENCIL NECKS!!
Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.---Plato
The lack of a neck machine and no wt room time was just par for the course with that coaching staff. For the COACHES football started on the 1st day of practice. No wt room, no camps, no 7on7. And these guys did nothing but blame the kids...callin them chicken and lazy. How can they blame the kids when the kids were just emulating thier coaches?! And what is sad is people accepted that. Just this off-season we are beginning to see some light at the end of the tunnel from the mess they made.
Again sorry to rant on, I just had to blow off some steam.
Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.---Plato
Just some friendly advice as always. NEVER talk bad about your predecessors, even though they may have been the worst type possible of coaches. Just take the bull by the horns and go to work, as you have done and the results will speak for themselves. Conceptions of YOUR PERSONALITY will follow you all the days of your life. Why not make it a POSITIVE conception? Having talked with you via the board and private emails, I know your hearts desire is to turn it around out there and build a winner. When you have to vent, go to a gym with a punching bag and vent on the heavy bag! It works wonders for your frame of mind, and noone will have anything bad to say about you because you said nothing bad about anyone else! Remember: OUT WORK EVERYONE WHO WANTS THE SAME THINGS THAT YOU DO, AND TREAT EVERYONE THE WAY YOU WANT TO BE TREATED. When you reach the end of your career someday, if you've lived your life by this creed, I think you will find that your peers will hold you in high esteem. Just an offered suggestion as always.
Coach Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
GReat points and I have always loved keeping myself in shape. Don't have a punching bag though, but I love to squat and bench. Frustration come out, and as you know I am not a complainer but a guy who does not make excuses. Honestly this years crew will be the first team without any influence from that old coachign staff. Attitudes, which are the thoughest thing to change are much improved.
Rush-I am in MN, but I am from NW Illinois. Ah, God's country!
Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.---Plato
In college we did manual neck work with a partner. I hated the neck machine compared to the burn our assist. strength coach could give you. We have a cheap neck machine in our weight room, but I think you get more range of motion doing it manually.
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