Strength Report – The Friday from Hades

When we came to PV a few months ago we found a downtrodden, used to losing group of young men. There was no pride in the program, nothing but “Hey, we tried”. The words compete, fight, and adversity were not in the vocabulary of these young men. We had to shock the system and change a lot of things. The first thing we changed was the strength and conditioning program.We are together Monday through Friday. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday are scheduled lifting sessions in which we use a percentage scale to increase strength and explosiveness. Also on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday we have a scheduled running session. Mondays are Agility 1 (line drills, plyometrics, and dot drills, etc.), Tuesday is a speed focus day (stance/starts, speed endurance, buildups, etc.), and Thursday is what we call ‘Old School Conditioning’ (ladders, gassers, stadium steps, timed sprints). Wednesday is