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Lean, Lock, Lift with Weight laq


For the lean, lock, lift exercise with weight, you will bend the left knee up. Hug your arms around it. Bring your knee all the way up to your chest. Lean toward that right side. Straighten your knee all the way out and bring your toes up toward your nose. And then go ahead and lift the leg up, k...

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Sprint Start from Stomach

Hey everyone, today we're going to be discussing sprint starts from a laying position. So we're going to start from a prone or on our stomach position today working on max speed and acceleration. So we're going to instruct our athlete to get on their stomach. And then we're going to go through the d...

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Upper Body Extension Rolling upper body

For upper body extension rolling, start with both arms overhead and then bend the lead elbow. Looking at that elbow by turning your head and you're going to pretend that you cannot move from the waist down. You're going to initiate the rolling with your elbow and your head looking, keeping the le...

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Sprint Start from Lateral Shuffle

Hey everyone. In this video, we're going to be discussing a sprint start starting from a lateral shuffle. So in this drill, what we're going to do is instruct our athlete to line up facing a direction about 90 degrees from where they're running. And so what we're going to do is we'll start into a la...

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Isometric Shoulder Flexion flexion shoulder

For shoulder flexion isometrics, place a towel underneath your arm and then get your shoulder blades down and back with really good posture. Then bend your elbow so it's at 90 degrees and push into the doorframe for 10s. Relax and repeat.Ā 

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Quad Set with Resisted Dorsiflexion dorsiflexion

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All right, now we're going to take a look at doing some resistance to dorsiflexion, to kind of get some overflow to the quad to get a stronger quad contraction. So we just simply wrap tubing around the foot here and go ahead and tighten up your quad for me. Good. And then bring your toes up and h...

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Long Arc Quad with Ankle Pump With Weight laq

For long arc quad with ankle pump with weight, straighten the knee all the way out. Hold it there. Bring the ankle up and down while you keep the knee perfectly straight. Repeat that ten times.

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Diaphragmatic Breathing -- Half Kneeling breathing

For diaphragmatic breathing in half kneeling, go ahead and place one foot up so that your knee is at a right angle and your hip is right above your knee on your down leg. Go ahead and place a hand on your chest and a hand on your stomach. Take a deep breath in so that your hand on your chest is n...

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Phil's Essential Products
These are theĀ equipment and products that I use on a regular basis.

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EQUIPMENT

Functional Movement Screen (FMS) Test Kit

I still prefer the PVC version, but call me old fashioned.

Y-Balance Test Kit

Be sure to get theĀ PVC one NOT the Professional Wood one. It is one of the few tim...

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A Skip Triple Exchange acceleration speed

Hey everyone, in this video, we're going to be discussing A Skip with a triple exchange for maximum speed and acceleration development. This will be very similar to our regular A Skip and our A Skip with our double exchange. So we're going to instruct our athlete to get into the starting position. O...

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A Hop agility dorsiflexion speed

Hey everyone! Today we're going to be discussing an A Hop for maximal speed and acceleration training. So for this drill, it's going to be the same setup as our A March would be. We're going to achieve dorsiflexion or a toe up position with the knee drive. And for this drill, what we're going to do ...

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Rectus Femoris Active Stretch - Prone Hip Mobility hip

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For prone hip mobility, start by bringing your foot to the floor and bringing that knee up as far as you can towards your chest. You really want that knee up in your armpit, and then take your arm and wrap it around your knee and hug your knee to your chest even more. You want to be sure you're k...

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