TCS: It Begins Now!!!

More often than not, the questions I get are asking, “How can I get stronger faster? What’s the quickest way to lose 50 lbs? I need to get my 40 time faster and how can I do this in as little time as possible?” My question is this, why does everything have to happen so quickly? What ever happened to the days when athletes were prepared to start their exercise program and do what was needed to get the results they wanted? In this day and age of instant gratification the life and job of the strength coach has taken on new challenges, or has it?

So now, let’s get back to building that muscle, the “quickest” and “easiest” way to get faster, stronger and better is to give yourself enough time. The mistake a lot of athletes make is waiting too late to start getting ready to compete. Questions are presented to me from players about getting ready for the season two weeks before it starts. If they had started preparing in June, July and/or August, then trying to get ready in two weeks would not have been an issue because they would have been closer to being ready then they were. 

The programs that I work with are laid out knowing that if you wait until late August or even early September to start preparing it is already too late and you will be at least a month behind. So I am asking athletes please prepare yourselves early. And as a public service, I am including a protocol I like to call the “Dirty Thirty”. Thirty exercises that when performed correctly will help turn average athletes into athletes who can be counted on in crunch time. These exercises should be performed three times a week with a day of rest in between and you decide on the weight to start out with. Two sets and after three weeks go to three sets. Use it in good health:

Written by Graig White