The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Football (The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports, 12)
by Robert G. Price, Maryanne Haselow-Dulin (Editor)

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Football is the most comprehensive and up-to-date football-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round football-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.

No other football book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book takes you from the off-season to the in-season, and is loaded with dozens of tips and pointers to help you maximize your training and improve your performance.

Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

Rob Price is a first class certified personal trainer and a fitness consultant at the University of Wisconsin. He is a national weight lifting champion and state bench press record holder. He has helped thousands of athletes all over the world achieve their goals. Rob is also a contributing author to OnFitness magazine and is the founder of the #1 Sports-Training website on the Internet.

Play Football The NFL Way: Position-by-Position Techniques and Drills for Offense, Defense, and Special Teams
by Tom Bass

"Play Football the NFL Way is the finest instructional book I have ever read. It examines, explains, and illustrates the important fundamental and skills so vital in playing the game. I found it to be concise and complete. It is ideally suited for the young aspiring athlete, to the developing high school or college player, and yes, even the top professional player. For coaches at all levels of competition, this is an excellent handbook that can be used as a reference or serve as the basic source of their work."--Bill Walsh, NBC Sports and former head coach, San Francisco 49ers.

"The most complete book of drills and techniques I ever have read. Play Football the NFL Way is must reading for every coach, no matter where he coaches for the level of competition." --LaVell Edwards, head coach, BYU, and past president American Football Coaches Association

"Tom Bass has taken his years of experience and organized them into an easy-to-read coaching manual that covers every phase of the game." --R.C. Slocum, head coach, Texas A&M University

"One of the most thorough, informative, and complete football books I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Tom Bass has a great gift as a teacher and fundamentalist. His position-by-position drills and 'Winning Points' comments are invaluable for any coach at any level."
--John B. Featherstone, head coach, El Camino College

"Tom Bass is one of the great minds of the game of football...I have read his book and heartily endorse it as a teaching tool for coaches and football classes." --Jim Sweeney, head coach, Fresno State University

"Play Football the NFL Way is without a doubt the most complete detailed, and descriptive book on football drills and techniques that I have read. A masterpiece for coaches--Bass knows football." --Spike Dykes, head coach, Texas Tech University

"Whether you play pro football, aspire to play pro football, watch pro football on television, or broadcast pro football, Tom Bass's book is a must." --Charlie Jones, NBC Sports

Football Drill Book
by Doug Mallory

Make the most of your practice time with the Football Drill Book! Doug Mallory, the defensive backs coach for the University of Maryland, has compiled a collection of drills that will help players in all positions develop and polish their abilities. This book includes chapters with selected drills for the following positions:

• Wide receivers
• Running backs
• Quarterbacks
• Offensive linemen
• Tight ends
• Defensive linemen
• Linebackers
• Centers
• Defensive backs

Renegade Training for Football: The Ultimate Guide to Developing Maximum Strength, Maximum Speed and Maximum Power
by Coach Davies

Coach Davies develops comprehensive training packages for all facets and levels of football, from high school to college to the NFL. Internationally, Coach Davies has been acclaimed for his work with European and South America soccer teams.

His Renegade Training philosophy is controversial but has proved highly successful in application. According to Coach Davies: "The sheer brutality of my work is probably the reason why my work is so controversial. My approach to work thresholds is unquestionably the crux of arguments against my training philosophy. My athletes are constantly reminded of the relentless, violent nature of their sport and our training reflects that.

Football in its purest form can be simply explained as a sport played by enormous men, of tremendous strength at an alarmingly fast pace. You must prepare your body and mind for the battle ahead. Preparation quickly decides who are the victors and the vanquished. I do not merely ask a lot of my athletes, I ask more than they ever imagined."

Coach Davies instills a "warrior mindset" in his athletes. The result: a stand-out toughness capable of excelling in the controlled chaos and extreme stress of modern football. Physically, his athletes have consistently broken through past performance barriers to dramatically enhance their speed, strength and power.

101 Agility Drills (101 Drills)
by Patrick McHenry, Joel Raether

Presents over 100 drills designed to develop an athlete’s ability to stop, start, and change the direction of the body (or body parts) rapidly and in a controlled manner. Each series of drills uses a logical progression to maximize performance, while using minimal and readily-available equipment, including: Boxes, cones, dots, hurdles, and ladders. Each drill is thoroughly explained and illustrated. Ideal for coaches and athletes of all activities and at all skill levels.

Patrick McHenry, MA, CSCS*D, PES is the head strength and conditioning coach at Ponderosa High School in Parker, CO. He ha a masters in physical education with an emphasis on kinesiology. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with Distinction (CSCS*D), Certified Club Coach with the United States Weightlifting Federation, and a Performance Enhancement Specialist (PES) with the National Academy of Sports Medicine. Patrick has 16 years teaching/coaching experience working with youth, high school, college, and Olympic-level athletes in a wide variety of sports. He has been published in journals, videos, and books. He has also presented at the local, state, and national levels in both strength and conditioning and physical education.

Joel Raether has been an assistant strength and conditioning coach with the University of Denver since the fall of 2002. His primary responsibilities are with men’s and women’s basketball, men’s lacrosse, and skiing. He also assists with the nationally-ranked men’s hockey team. Prior to joining the University of Denver strength and conditioning staff, Raether was an assistant strength and conditioning coach at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

101 Defensive Back Drills
by Ron, Sr. Dickerson, James A. Peterson

Over 100 drills to help develop the total defensive back. The variety and intensity of each drill will make learning fun and enjoyable while meeting the tremendous need of every defensive back-wanting to achieve success!

I wrote this book to provide football coaches at all competitive levels with a tool that can enable them to maximize the skills and attributes of their players. As a vehicle for teaching and learning, properly designed drills can have extraordinary value. 101 Defensive Back Drills features drills that i have collected, field-tested, and applied over the course of my coaching career. If, in the process of using the drills presented in this book, coaches are better able to develop the skills of the defensive backs, then the effort to write this book will have been well worthwhile.

An easy-to-understand and implement collection of line drills. Includes off-season developmental drills, agility, run-blocking, pass-protection, supplemental, team and group drills. Each drill is thoroughly diagrammed and illustrated.

Steve Loney is currently an assistant offensive line coach with the NFL's Minnesota Vikings. Loney was born April 26, 1952, in Marshalltown, Iowa. He played offensive line for Iowa State 1970-73, then coached: Missouri Western College 1975-76, Moorhead State 1979-1983, The Citadel 1984-86, Colorado State 1989-1992, Connecticut 1994, Iowa State 1995-97, 2000-01, Minnesota 1998-99. Loney also coached for the Phoenix Cardinals in 1993. He joined Vikings in 2002.

Complete Conditioning for Football
by Michael J. Arthur, Bryan L. Bailey

For the past three decades the University of Nebraska football program has set the standard of excellence for successful conditioning. Complete Conditioning for Football presents the same program the Cornhuskers use to power their way to national championships.

Base, development, peak, and in-season training programs are provided for beginning, intermediate, and advanced players. The book includes 98 position-specific exercises that help players improve speed, agility, power, and endurance. Sample workouts are provided for offensive linemen, defensive linemen, linebackers, running backs, receivers, and defensive backs. Chapters also cover the key training principles of adaptation, specificity, overload, periodization, and proper rest and nutrition.

Fully illustrated, Complete Conditioning for Football takes the latest in strength and conditioning research and turns it into a detailed, practical approach that will help players gain the performance edge.

“Mike and Bryan have created a book that combines scientific strength and conditioning research with the practical application to show “why” and “how” to train. The Nebraska strength and conditioning program is recognized as the best in the nation. This book explains why.”

Boyd Epley Assistant Athletic Director University of Nebraska

“This is not a weightlifting book but rather a football performance must! Mike is one of the most respected authorities in our profession and has finally put his best thoughts on paper. Everyone regardless of level will get insight not only to practical drills and lifts but also important philosophical considerations.”

Dave Kennedy Head Football Strength and Conditioning Coach The Ohio State University

”Coaches Arthur and Bailey will put you in great shape to excel on the football field. Their training program has proven successful for many years at Nebraska, and has helped me and others maximize our abilities.”

Irving Fryar Wide Receiver Philadelphia Eagles

52-Week Football Training
by Ben Cook

Add power, speed, and agility to your game plan! 52-Week Football Training takes the guesswork out of workouts and ensures players are in peak condition each season and game.

Daily workouts are presented for each week of the year and include resistance training, total conditioning exercises, and position-specific activities. The training plan conforms well to both high school and college calendars and organizes workouts into six sequential phases:

• Postseason
• Winter
• Spring
• Early summer
• Preseason
• In-season

Conditioning coach Ben Cook, who has worked with 27 players who went on to the NFL, presents a full menu of on-field and off-field drills and exercises to develop flexibility, strength, power, speed, and agility. The book includes more than 160 photos showing correct technique and nearly 200 exercises and drills.

Be ready to perform at your best. 52-Week Football Training will help get any team and player ready to excel on every down.

Nsca's Strength and Conditioning Manual for High School Coaches
by National Strength and Conditioning Association

In this indispensable resource, the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), a worldwide authority on strength and conditioning, describes how to design a strength and conditioning program for high school athletes. Covers program design, warm up, stretching & flexibility, resistance exercises, plyometrics, speed development, agility, and offers special sections on exercise physiology and nutrition. Provides sample programs and guidelines, and features over 80 exercises and drills (with complete descriptions and photographs) that coaches can use in their programs.

Football: Skills & Drills (Skills & Drills Series)
by Tom Bass

The foundation for success in football begins with the ability to execute the fundamental skills proficiently and consistenly. This book provides the blueprint for that foundation, teaching the key techniques for all offensive, defensive, and special teams positions.

Tom Bass coached with three NFL teams over a span of nearly 30 years. With the Cincinnati Bengals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and San Diego Chargers he served as a defensive coordinator and assistant coach on both offense and defense, and he held front-office roles of vice president of public relations and director of player personnel. Before his move to the NFL, he enjoyed six successful years of college coaching at San Jose State University and San Diego State.

Bass is also recognized as a premier clinician throughout the world. He conducts on-site technical football coaching clinics for football coaches from major colleges and universities as well as for youth, high school, junior college, and international coaches of American football. His football savvy is showcased in many venues: "In-Depth" clinics on his Web site CoachBass.com, his "Ask the Coach" column on NFLhs.com, at Tom Bass Football Seminars for Women Only, and through successful Coach Bass Sports Maps for NFL and college football.

As an ambassador of the game, Bass has served as president of the Canadian Football League team, the Sacramento Goldminers, and was on the board of directors for the International Football Federation of American football, which covers four continents and 23 countries. Major corporations such as IBM, Coca-Cola, and Anheuser-Busch have hired him for his speaking talents, and he has been the featured guest on numerous sports talk and interview shows on radio and television, including HBO, ABC Nightly News, and ESPN.

Get Fit Now For High School Football (Get Fit Now for High School Sports)
by Stewart Smith, Chris Johnson, Peter Field Peck (Photographer)

"HUT 1, HUT 2, HUT 3 ...HIKE!" Don't be tackled by football tryouts. The time to get fit for high school football is now. Everyone wants to be a football hero but not everyone is in shape to make the team. Now join former Navy SEAL, Stew Smith, as he talks with real high school football players who demonstrate the exercise program that got them out of the tryouts and onto the Varsity. Photographed on location at one of the nation's top-ranked high school football programs, Get Fit Now for High School Football is specifically designed for the 12 to 18 year-old athlete.

The young athlete will learn:

• Techniques for improving overall strength and power
• Plyometric training for explosive speed and agility
• Aerobic conditioning for ultimate endurance

The first in the Get Fit Now for High School Sports(tm) series, this book is bound to score with young athletes in all fifty states.

Stewart Smith is a former US Navy SEAL. Stew is now Director of the nationwide chain of Getfitnow.com Family Fitness Centers. A native of Live Oak, FL, Stew now resides in Severna Park, MD.

The Coach's Strength Training Playbook
by Joe Kenn

Strength and conditioning specialist Joe Kenn draws upon the three strength disciplines -- weightlifting, powerlifiting, and body building -- as well as training principles of traditional periodization and high-intensity training, to define the "Tier System" of athletic-based strength training. The tier system promotes training athletes on a rotation of movements (total body, upper body, lower body) rather than training body parts. The result is an integrated, "whole-body" strength training program with greater real-world and sport-appropriate applicability. The book explores an overview of the system and provides annual plan development, training cycles, and daily and weekly plans. Ideal for coaches and trainers of football, basketball, track and field, wrestling, gymnastics, and any sport requiring maximum and explosive strength.

Joe Kenn, CSCS, is a certified strength and conditioning specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, a certified sports performance coach, and a certified club coach from United States Weightlifting. He has been published in several journals and publications and has spoken at the local, state, regional, and national levels. He has received numerous honors, including being named the 2002 National Strength and Conditioning Association’s Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Professional of the Year. In January 2003, he was named head coach of sorts performance at Arizona State University.

Strength Training for Football
by Bruno Pauletto

Now you can maintain peak performance for football year-round with the easy-to-follow training programs found in Strength Training for Football! Bruno Pauletto, University of Tennessee strength and conditioning coach and former president of the National Strength and Conditioning Association, shows you how to maximize your strength potential, increase your level of play, and minimize injuries.

The book includes information on customizing a strength training program and building muscle mass, 25 exercises specific to football, safety guidelines, exercise charts, and step-by-step photos.

Whether you play football at the junior high, high school, or college level, Strength Training for Football contains all the information you need to maintain an effective, year-round strength training program.