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Sport Specific: Football – Week 7, Day 3

This is a 12 week linear progression program for football players. The goal of this program is to safely progress in your strength training without sacrificing power.

Terrance Gant

Written by Terrance Gant Last updated on August 17, 2012

This is a 12 week linear progression program for football players. The goal of this program is to allow football players to safely progress in their strength training without sacrificing their power. The program is split into 2 days: explosive and strength. Both days are performed twice in a given week, at different intensities.

The workouts will be posted on the following schedule, but feel free to adjust it to fit your own week. Remember to work in rest/recovery days, as well:

  • Monday: Heavy explosive day
  • Wednesday: Light strength day
  • Friday: Light explosive day
  • Saturday: Heavy strength day

Core movements should not be substituted at any cost. The assistant exercises are broken into pulling and pushing movements and can be substituted if needed. Every 4 weeks you need to perform a 1RM (rep max) on all core lifts to ensure the lifting percentages are correct.

Workout: Week 7, Day 3

Light Explosive Day -60%

Warm Up

1 x 5 Hang Shrugs

Core Movements

3 x 3 Hang Clean

3 x 3 Power Press

3 x 3 Power Jumps w/Dumbbells

Assistance Exercises

3 x 5 Bent Over Row

3 x 5 Dumbbell Curls

3 x 10 V Ups

Terrance Gant

About Terrance Gant

Terrance Gant is the assistant varsity football coach and defensive coordinator at Tempe high school in Tempe, Arizona. He also doubles as the Head Strength and Conditioning coach for some of the sports programs. Terrance got his start in the sports performance community when as an active duty Marine he started CrossFit training. While becoming ingrained in CrossFit and its methodology and training he decided to get certified. Terrance is CrossFit Level II certified and also carries specialty certifications in Olympic weightlifting, running and endurance, gymnastics, barbell, and kettlebell training.

Upon release from active duty in 2010, Terrance was looking for working in the field of his first love, football. While looking for a coaching position he was asked by a former high school teammate to run strength and conditioning camp for his team. After seeing the results, the school asked him to come on staff as the strength coach. The next season Terrance was hired as the defensive coordinator for the varsity football staff.

Terrance is in charge of the training and conditioning of the football, basketball, volleyball, and wrestling programs, as well as his coaching duties. In his spare time he attends seminars, clinics, and reads recent studies on sports performance training.

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