Indoor Track and Football

Now that high school football season is winding down and indoor track has started it may be a good idea for football players to join the indoor track team.  If  you are a football player and have no interest in playing on the basketball team or the wrestling team then indoor track is the way to go.  Biggs can participate in the field events and skills and semi-skills can participate in the jumpa and sprints.  Competing in track and field football players can continue to work on explosive events and workouits that will provide them the dynamic strength they need for the football field.  Also, they will be alble to maintain their conditioning and let alone work on their speed.  On a good indoor track program football players will be able to work on drills to help sprint mechanics and running form daily. Participating in sprint events such as the 55 meters will definitely help in improving the 40yd dash time.  Explosive movement events such as long and triple jumps, Shot put and hammer throws, short sprints and endurance sprints are all the ingredients for a football player to get stronger and faster and let's not forget the weight room after every practice.  Several high school football programs in the South encourage football players to joing the track team for all the reasons mentioned in this article.  So if you are a football player and have nothing going on in the winter join the track team and get stronger and faster!

Think fast be fast!

Can't Run Fast If You Are Not Training Fast

Most people agree that speed wins, then why if that is the case isn’t it made a priority. You must work on speed first and foremost.  You must incorporate some elements of speed from the first training cycle through to the peak competition. That is true if you are training for a marathon or 100 meters, basketball or rugby. It must be part of every training cycle. I find it quite amusing when I hear a coach say that we have been working on base work, but I have not started speed work yet. What are you waiting for? The problem with that approach is that they are not training to be fast, they are training to endure, and then magically they hope that the fast will come. They are essentially training speed out that is easy. The inevitable result is undue soreness and greater risk of injury because of the abrupt change in the training program when they do start to emphasize anything fast. The key is to never get too far away from running fast. Always train speed in.  It should be part of the first training cycle of the year and be a part of each subsequent training cycle. Speed development work can be as simple as sprint drills, light acceleration drills, or for a distance runner simply finishing each run with 8 –10 x 100 meter fast strides, but it must be there all the time. Speed first to be first.

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"For some of you, if you give up your cell phone you will be successful, but your cell phone is more important to you than your success.  Some of you really need to give up your cell phone because the time you spend on your cell phone could be used for your success and your cell phone is bringing you nothing but a bill and someone has told you you couldn't live without it."

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Three FLSP Athletes Commit

Three Fast Lane Sports Performance athletes anounced their commitment to play collegiate football as National Signing Day for High School Football recruits is today.  All three players are from Cheshire High School:

Sebastian Little, Harvard
Billy Werauch,  Stonehill
Shaun Bowmna, Sacred Heart

Congratulations to all three athletes.   Stay tuned for more FLSP athletes signing as we get more by the end of the day today. 

Crevoiserat Sets School Record

UConn Freshman and FLSP athlete Lindsay Crevoiserat (Glastonbury) is already making noise this indoor season as she broke the all-time school record in the 3,000m in her first indoor track meet!  She ran a blistering 9:29.78 at the NYC Armory last weekend.  She was also named Big East Track Athlete of The Week.  On Friday night Lindsay ran the mile at the Great Dane Classic in NYC and finished 4th with a 4:46 mile.  Lindsay is one of the most fierce competitors I know on the track and it doesn't surprise me at all that she is off to this amazing start.  I have a feeling that she will set many more school records throughout her career at UConn.  Congratulations Lindsay!!!

NFL Combine Training Week 2

A great combine workout today for Andre Dixon (UConn)  and Jeff Logan (CCSU).  We spent a lot of time working on the 3 cone drill ("L" Drill) and just getting the technique down.  The guys are working real hard and I can already see the difference in only the second week.  For many football players the "L" drill is the most difficult combine drills.  It features several changes of direction, tight turn around the cones and quck acceleration to the finish line.  Other than the 40yd dash it is the most important drill  because it really exposes the level of flexibility of the athlete's hips and that is what the scouts want to see.  What we did today was break the drill down in two parts.  The change of direction and the figure eight where the athlete has to take tight turns.  After doing several repetitions of both drills we did some test runs on the "L" Drill.  At the end of the workout the athletes got a taste of the prowler suicides.  It's a very intense drill using a prowler that tests the athlete's conditioning.  The guys will have a lifting session tomorrow then its back on the track on Friday for some speed work. 

FLSP Short Film "The Workout"

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NFL Combine Training

As we begin week 2 of the NFL Combine Training there will be two more athletes that will join in.  Former UConn Linebacker Greg Robinson and Former Central Defensive Tackle Jeff Logan.  These athletes will be workoing out with Andre Dixon for the next seven weeks leading up to the February 25th combine date.  Week 1 went really well as Andre and Greg got to work on some top speed mechanics and speed work.  The also did a superset of ropes and chains pulls that left both athletes floored with fatigue.  I'm looking forward to having Jeff join in this week as we will step it up a notch with the intensity this week. 

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1/4/12 Combine training Day 1 - A.D.

Today was offically the first day of combine training for Andre Dixon. The former UConn star running back did a 90 minute workout that included a good dynamic warm-up, speed drills, and testing.  We wanted to get some early test results before we really get into the training.  Andre did great in all the performance tests and he is ready to go!  We set some new goals that I feel he can achieve in a 7 week period and now is just putting in the time.  Already I can see that he is a very hard worker and he is a great person!  Tomorrow is weight training day for Andre then we go back to combine training on Friday.  Saturday Febraury 25th is the NFL Regional Combine and it isgoing to be held at the New York Jets Training Facility.  The countdown to the combine begins today. 

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