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Over the last year and a half I have been writing the strength and conditioning programs for the US Revolution; during this time I have learned that there are several key aspects that are very important in developing a top quality strength and conditioning program for the footy athlete. Part of this learning process is not only from writing the programs; but also I have the unique opportunity to see them action, as well playing against of few them. All of that a side, the main problem many strength and conditioning coaches run into are a lack of resources, predominantly the resource of: TIME. Thus, there becomes a need to pare things down to absolute bear minimum number of drills that will produce the most rock solid result. Hence my learning process has led me to develop what I call my "Five Necessities of Building a Footy Player ".

But before we get to the good stuff, we need to take a look at a few misnomers that are keeping many American footy players from becoming truly outstanding.

1. Don’t Discount Strength - training strength is often sacrificed in the footy training hierarchy; due to the perception that other physical abilities should come first. Although, running can get you there, in a true 50/50 contest strength will many times be the determining factor. Don’t think strength is important, almost across the board best players in the country are going to be some of the strongest also.

2. Catchy Core – don’t get caught up in the hype, core is strictly a marketing term that those in the industry have developed in order to sell product and set themselves apart. Pilates and yoga are for vegetarian twigs that don’t play footy. Want core work – pick weight up off the ground, lift it over head, squat underneath it, or carry it; and you’ll have all the core work you could want and then some.

3. Run Focused – at the risk of sounding like I am down on running; I will say this: Footy players shouldn’t be running more than 800 meters during anyone repetition. The last time I checked in on a footy game, I didn’t see any players running a steady state pace for a distance of 5, 3, 2, or even 1 mile, however I did see a boat load players making 50 to 100 meter runs repeatedly. You want to log a lot of distance do it running 400 or 800 meter runs.

4. Better Footy Body - although I know its important to players to look good for all the adoring "honeys" after the game; performing sport specific strength training and bodybuilding are two completely different birds. 10 drop sets of preacher curls followed by a superset of bench press and pec deck, are NOT going to make you a better footy player. Players should be getting a steady dose of compound strength and power movement similar to the ones to be listed. Now that we have all that out of the way; let’s look at my Top 5 drills for helping you zero in on becoming an the best all-around footy player possible. 1. Overhead Squat – if there a single lifting exercise that develops nearly every athletic quality desirable this just might be it. Description -

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In life we are surrounded by numerous myths and half-truths, the Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot, UFOs in Roswell, and Crop Circles just to name a few. No one quite knows if any of these things really exists or if they are just stories told by people for purposes only they know. Sports conditioning has much in common with these mythological occurrences.

Over the past several months, I have answered a gamut of questions from numerous Revolution players with topics ranging from pre-competition nutrition to exercise performance questions. All have been valid and good questions. However, I have also had to dispel more than a few myths about strength training and sports conditioning as well. All of which has led to the development of this article in an effort to dismiss as many of the common myths as possible with one fell-stroke of the
keyboard. So, without further ado, here are the top five myths related to strength training and sports conditioning: