Provides an inside look at football workouts, together with instructions and advice from ten of pro football's most prolific and well-conditioned players and their coaches.

The New Wave of Football Training Abdul Foster’s gym, Nine Innovations, is changing the way football players train—a fresh approach for the modern athlete. It’s not about over-training to lift more weight, but training smarter with regimens that make you a dynamic powerhouse on the field. Abdul has been training top NFL players for years, including his brother, Arian Foster, whose career took off once he started training with Abdul, as well as Andre Johnson, Glover Quin, Brandon LaFell, Owen Daniels, James Ihedigbo, Darius Slay and over 40 more players. This book presents Abdul’s highly successful off-season professional football training program scaled for high school and college players. It will transform your performance on the football field now, help your team to win and improve your chances of making it to the pros. The exercises are detailed with step-by-step directions and photos, ensuring proper form and effectiveness while you improve agility, speed, endurance and full-body strength. To be the best, you need to train with the best; Next Generation Football Training gives you VIP access to the pros’ gym to help you gain the competitive edge.

Go hard, get intense--and gain the competitive edge Are you ready to go hard core? Then let top performance trainer Chip Smith break you down and build you up into the biggest, baddest player on the field. The number-one expert pros turn to when they want to get pumped and primed for the season and the first choice of aspiring players when they need to take their game to the next level, Smith coaches the best of the best at his state-of-the-art training center, Competitive Edge Sports. Now in Football Training Like the Pros, he brings his once-exclusive top training secrets to you. With a foreword by Chicago Bear Brian Urlacher; photos straight from Smith's powerhouse camps; and the exclusive personal routines of NFL stars like Denver's Champ Bailey, Washington's Antwaan Randle El, and Atlanta's Keith Brooking, this is your complete guide to taking your game to the next level. Inside you'll find tons of individualized, position-specific drills and training techniques guaranteed to help you: Gain mega-pounds of muscle and increase your power Get fast and shave time off your forty-yard dash Supercharge your endurance Improve your agility and flexibility Turn your mental toughness to steel And much more

All-Pro Performance Training offers a detailed look at the proper execution for combine staples such as the 40-yard dash and pro agility shuttle, tips for mastering position-specific agility drills, and an inside look into how athletes at the highest level of the sport both train and recover.

Illuminating interviews with some of the game's biggest names--both past and present. Workout tutorials, nutritional advice and a look at the best gear and equipment available to you. Fascinating in-depth features on preseason training camps, the importance of a good night's sleep and the five-a-side league that aims to help players lose weight and get fit. Workouts for burning fat and building muscle are provided. Clear instructions and images demonstrate the correct form and help you to target specific muscle groups and work on different in-game situations. We also bring you wonderfully illustrated guides to working out in the winter and on rainy days, while there's also loads of essential advice on everything from in-game psychology and fitness equipment to eating the right foods to fuel your body. Contributors include David Luiz, Robert Pires, Gabriel Jesus, Xabi Alonso, Michael Owen, Jesse Lingard, Javi Martinez, Dominic Calvert-Lewin and many more.

Noted sports performance expert and bestselling author of Core Performance, Verstegen reveals the training program he uses with elite athletes and U.S. Special Operations Forces. As founder and president of EXOS, Mark Verstegen has trained the world’s top athletes in sports including the NFL, Major League Baseball, and worldwide soccer powers, along with the most elite “tactical athletes”—U.S. Special Operations Forces personnel. More than a decade ago, Verstegen’s groundbreaking book Core Performance revolutionized the fitness industry and made core conditioning and functional training mainstream. In his new book, Verstegen presents his most hardcore program yet: a demanding system that challenges readers to perform at the highest level. Borrowing heavily from his regimens used by the military and NFL-combine hopefuls, Verstegen breaks the system down into tough but easy-to-follow workouts that help readers become faster, more explosive, and more powerful while moving with greater efficiency and with far less potential for injury. If you’ve ever wanted to perform like the top sports champions or elite fighting forces, this is the book for you.