Strength Report – Maine’s Winter Strength & Conditioning Program, Part II – February and March

February TrainingFebruary training concentrates on speed development and maximum strength training. We implement our speed development program on Mondays and Thursdays which are divided into linear and lateral PAL mechanics training. Linear speed is performed on Monday and lateral speed on Thursday of each week. Linear and lateral speed development exercises progress from mechanics to acceleration to top speed. We will utilize a distance of 10-20 yards for acceleration drills. Agility drills are also incorporated into our lateral speed day and Saturday team competitions. The agility drills consist of program agility (cone drills), reactive agility (reacting to another player), and competitive agility drills (competing against another player and following the same sequence). Saturday team workouts include players being organized into their drafted teams competing against each other in