Uphill Battle – Grambling’s ‘Back to the Basics’ strength and conditioning program challenges an athlete’s body as well as his mind.

With the end of the spring semester, our players understand that it is only two-three weeks before we begin our summer workouts. With the start of those workouts, they also understand that we are officially preparing for the upcoming season. Since we are a BCS program, we are financially restricted in terms of paying for our athletes to attend both summer school sessions but they are at least able to attend the second session (late June – late July). For those athletes that are fortunate enough to attend both sessions, they are able to experience our entire linear periodization program for lifting (from muscular hypertrophy, muscular endurance, strength, and power) and conditioning (aerobic endurance, anaerobic/speed endurance – long distances to short distances).Our two sessions are four to five weeks long. During our first session (late-May to late-June), our players are lifting