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Marching to the Beat of a Different DrumTraining with a weight vestby: Chip Smith © More from this issue Over the last 13 years, I have had the opportunity to train over 40 NFL players. Some of the players I have trained are: Brian Urlacher, NFL Rookie of the Year and three-time Pro Bowl player, Garrison Hearst, Pro Bowler and NFL Comeback Player of the Year, Keith Brooking, Champ Bailey and recent top draft picks, Dewayne Robertson, fourth pick in the 2003 NFL draft; Terrance Newman, fifth pick in this year’s draft and Jonathan Sullivan, the sixth pick in this year’s draft. What all these players have in common, besides the fact they trained with me at Competitive Edge Sports, is that they all use weight vest in the preparation of either the off-season or combine preparation phase. This is how we incorporate weight vest into our training: The Xvest is our vest of choice. Over the years we have evolved from sandbags to other vests on the market, to currently the best vest we have ever used. With the size of our athletes and sheer number of athletes we train, the weighted vests meet our needs and expectations. If you want your athletes to be explosive, you have to train them explosive. We use our vest for a number of training drills and movements. Some of the application and benefits:
We use the weighted vest two days per week. We use the vest for
incline work, which can be stadiums, hill work and on the treadmill.
We use the vest for
position work, ballistic warm-ups on cold days, quick foot ladders and other
specific
movements. We use the vest in the weight room for box step-ups and split
jumps, walking lunges, standing broad jumps and vertical jumps. Chip Smith is the founder and president of Competitive Edge Sports and can be contacted at 770-365-5548 or www.competitiveedgesports.com |
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