College Football Players Frustrated With Speed Results

I recently started a new client who played free safety for Ohio State Football from 1993-1997. He’s 6-1, 215 lb and played in two Rose Bowl games.

Of course I asked him what he and the other players on the team did for speed training.

Not to my surprise, he mentioned that the trainers and coaches had him doing plyometrics, like jumping up and down off boxes,  power cleans and other similiar types of exercises to get faster in their 40 yard dash times. 

He said, “those things really didn’t help at all”.  All of his teammates were always looking for something to make them faster, nothing helped, is what he said.  He said this with great disappointment, shaking his head.

I wrote the short article behind the link below that talks about the ‘No Pain No Gain‘ theory and shows why college athletes are chronically disappointed with their speed training results: http://www.athleticquickness.com/page.asp?page_id=43