The Mean Green Way: North Texas' Multi-Year System of Training

“As to methods there may be a million and thensome, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”  - Ralph Waldo Emerson This quote hangs in my office as a daily reminder of the dichotomy of our profession. Truly, there are countless methods to improve athlete performance. Ask 125 FBS football strength and conditioning coaches how best to train an athlete, and you’ll likely get 125 varying, sometimes vastly different answers. So how do we make sense of it all? Many different training means can provide a positive athletic result. Rather than try to convince you of what training means are best for you, I instead will give you the ability to make that decision, and in doing so, create a system of training that best fits your unique needs, utilizing a