Strength Report – Seven Phases

Sam Houston State’s Strength and Conditioning ProgramTRAINING PHILOSOPHYThe goal for our strength and conditioning program is to improve each player’s athleticism using a variety of different training methods. Our approach is to implement a simple and effective, yet sound program. A program that relies on hard work, focus, and determination as its main ingredients for success. This approach is not only successful, but is complementary to Head Coach Willie Fritz and his staff’s overall vision for the program.Football is a game played on your feet from the ground up. This is why it is important to use free weight, ground based, multi-joint movements with a major emphasis on variations of the Olympic lifts (the power clean, power snatch and push jerk). We squat and front squat to below parallel, and do various forms of step ups, lunges, and single leg squats. Bench press is also