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[James_Smith]

@tamfb

Something I have been preaching for a long time but people laughed at me when we were doing rdl’s with 155-225lbs.

I often reinforce to my guys how important it is to me that their bodies feel excellent as frequently as possible and how I’m willing to go to great lengths to do what I can to assist in this process.

@ESTI

James, I also feel the same way about hamstring work. It doesn’t take much with weight work to cause excessive soreness and tightness there. We typically do hamstring work on the last workout of the week so that it provides the most rest between workout sessions (i.e. do it fri, next session is Mon)

I warned One of my athletes who is at a MAC school about doing hamstring work in season and going hard. Sure enough, 2 weeks into practice he pulls a hammy at practice, missed considerable amount of time as a result.

I think in programs where speed work is non existent, doing post chain work can be done more so, but when adding in speed work, particularly max veloc, this has to be monitored carefully.

Agreed.

I’ve learned of an incredible amount of programs, both collegiate and NFL, that never conduct actual speed work. Hence the inadvertent compatibility of the monstrous weight training loads that we see so commonplace.

This is because the coaches, apparently, do not understand what actually constitutes speed development due to the indoctrinated belief that ‘you can’t teach speed’ and athletes won’t get much faster then they were in high school.