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April 11, 2010 - PRLog -- South Florida’s Elite Football Conditioning Program:

In today's game of college football, the off-season is no longer a time to just sit around, party, and enjoy the luxury of doing absolutely nothing. College football players today are basically at work year around. They watch game films, do speed drills, conditioning and definitely weight train.

In fact, the weight room is probably the most important part of their off season training regimen especially from February to June, before the incoming freshman arrive and double sessions start up once again. Many people associated with the game of football believe that championships are won during the season but made in the off-season. The work done in the weight room helps tremendously at getting teams to the National Championship.

The work that college teams do in the weight room is taken very seriously. In years and decades past, off-season weight training was considered somewhat of a foreign concept and not taken too seriously by many college coaches and college players. Now the work in the weight room along with many teams enforcing a strict diet has been broken down and analyzed piece by piece, exercise by exercise to help college athletes excel and succeed expectations on the football field.

Football is About Explosive Power
Football itself from a physical stand point is a game of explosion, power, and leverage. When two players meet head on in the open field, the size of each player doesn't matter because the lower man will always win. So, you can either lie some out or get laid out yourself.

Olympic Style and Core Strength
Typically college exercises that football players do are the Olympic style and core strength lifts. These consist of the bench press, power clean, dead lift, squat, push press, hang clean, and clean and jerk. Now don't get me wrong there other exercises done to compliment and help maximize the affects of the ones that were just listed. These exercises are done to generate maximum explosion and leverage in minimal amount of time, which is basically what power is. The equation for power is P= Strength x Speed.

Developing Power
For a college football player, developing power is the most important thing when weight training is improving power. Football on the collegiate level is a game that consists of much more talent and speed with bigger, stronger, faster and more agile athletes competing against each other than high school or Pop Warner level football. So doing these types of lifts (which all involve explosion to perform the movement) enhances power.

The element of explosive power is used in just about every aspect of football. Whether you are a lineman in the trenches, a linebacker attacking the line of scrimmage or a receiver who has to create separation from a defensive back, explosive power is a necessary tool for gridiron success, especially on the collegiate level. Think of it like this: basically a football player will either win or lose his one on one battle on the football field within one to two seconds - which is the same amount of time it takes to perform one repetion of a set of power cleans.

That's how fast the game is and it shows football players must use their time in the weight room developing that explosion,so they can win their own individual battles. The more individual battles the team wins, the better their chances of winning the game.

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