Strength Report: Football Specific Conditioning, Part I
by Gary Uribe, Head Athletic Performance Coach, Mike Nicolini, Lead Assistant Athleand Greg Segrove, Assistant Athletic Performance Coach, San Jose State University
Football is an explosive sport requiring power and speed in linear and non-linear sport specific movements. With the average time per play lasting 6 seconds and a 40 second play clock, football is an interval based sport switching from high intensity bursts of about 6 seconds and low intensity active-recovery periods of about 40 seconds. Due to the high intensity nature of each play, one goal of the off-season conditioning program is to train the capacity and efficiency of the short duration,
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