SPEED AND AGILITY ASSESSMENT DRILLS The speed drills involved at the combine include the 40 yard dash, 20 yard shuttle, 60 yard shuttle, and the 3 cone drill . The 40 yard dash is without a doubt the most scrutinized and popular drill in the combine. During the 40 yard dash, three splits are taken at 10 yards, 20 yards, and 40 yards . The reason being, in certain positions they might never run 40 yards in a given play. An offensive or defensive lineman will most likely never run greater than 10 yards unless there is along play or they are in the “hurry-up” offense. Hence, recording the 10 and 20 yard splits are more applicable to certain positions, such as offensive and defensive lineman, in regards to how far they run on any given play. Many believe that a fast 40 time will translate into NFL stardom,...
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NFL Combine Part 1
INTRODUCTION The National Football League Scouting Combine has been a valuable tool for NFL teams’ scouts to view prospects. It has also been a great opportunity for athletes to showcase their talent on the national stage. The “combine” is an event that allows professional scouts to evaluate collegiate football players, who have exhausted their eligibility, as professional prospects . Players with exhausted eligibility include seniors who have played four years and underclassmen who have signed with an agent . It is important because it gives the professional scouts an opportunity to evaluate the prospects and the prospects an opportunity...
The End of Hard Work and the New Era of Performance Enhancing: Part 2
Why steroids? Growing up everyone would say that I was too small and that I wouldn’t be able to play at the next level. Still to this day I continue to hear the same thing, that because of my size I would have no chance at making it in the NFL. Despite the critics, I started for 4 years for one of the best high school football programs in the nation and later went on to start 4 years at Northeastern University. Recently, I had a try out in front of 32 NFL teams. I chose not to take...
The End of Hard Work and the New Era of Performance Enhancing: Part 1
The drive to compete and to win is as old as humankind. “Throughout history, athletes have sought foods and potions to transform their bodies into powerful, well-tuned machines. Greek wrestlers ate huge quantities of meat to build muscle, and Norse warriors ate hallucinogenic mushrooms to gear up for battle. The first competitive athletes believed to be charged with doping were swimmers in Amsterdam in the 1860s. Doping, with anything from strychnine and caffeine to cocaine and heroin, spread to other sports over the next several decades” (Bigger,Stronger,Faster). The use of anabolic steroids by athletes is a more recent development. ...
Instinctive Training for Wrestlers
Before reading any further, it’s important to keep in mind that this method of training is designed for the (relatively) experience athlete. I’m not talking about the typical ‘Jersey-Shore’ training experience that most of us had in high school, encompassing bench, 2-3 bicep exercises, and some ½ leg-presses. I’m talking at least a couple years of legitimate lifting experience, supervised by an experienced coach (I don’t want to get into the semantics of ‘experience coach,’ just know that I don’t mean Coach Joey Bag-a-Donuts who has perfected the sternum-slam bench technique and rounded back squats!) The idea behind instinctive,...
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