Coach Anthony Figueroa

110% - Same thing happened to me throughout my career… my teammates that spent all summer running 110’s and 300 yard shuttles to “get ready” for conditioning test and camp. I did the opposite. Nothing less than max speed effort - with absolutely minimal “running”. Guess who was ready for actual football? The goal isn’t to go longer than everyone else and not “get tired”. The goal is to be faster, absorb force and create force better and longer than everyone else. You don’t absorb or create enough force during by conditioning. I can also claim that never once in my career - college or NFL - did I experience a cramp in game or practice - and It had little to do with hydration - because my nervous system was prepared for what I was asking it to do. Force absorption is the name of the game.… We’ve seen the same thing with our High School kids. Once we changed the way we train and got rid of the nonsensical conditioning, we are faster and in far superior condition. We have almost zero soft tissue sprains or tweaks. In fact, the only kids who do have some sort of issue are the ones who didn’t show up to train consistently or had their own “private” trainer that overworked them. In my short time working with High School kids - I have learned a fast lesson that “Burning the Steak” is a real thing with conditioning / sub maximal work being one of the primary offenders.. From early morning workouts, school, and all the other things in their schedule they do not recover enough to be at the best. Final note… Nothing sucks the life out of a performance based culture than mind numbing conditioning…. Keep up the good work Tony!