Preparing Defensive Linemen

Tim Tobin was awarded the Division III Samson Equipment Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year award last season for his work at Kutztown University. Now at Tusculum College, Coach Tobin completed a four-set series of DVDs on defensive line play techniques and drills. In this DVD, Coach Tobin details a complete training schedule for defensive linemen in the weight room. The DVDs are available at AFMvideos.com.

In this DVD, you will learn from Coach Tobin:

· As a coach, what questions to ask as it relates to a D-Linemen’s actual time on live plays in a game.
· What muscles are used by your D-Linemen for push-pull in the upper body and exploding the lower body.
· Proper conditioning for your D-Linemen who will be running in short spurts in different directions.
· The proper lifting schedule for your D-Linemen.
· The importance of sweating before stretching and stretching before lifting.
· Why yoga can help a D-Lineman.
· Why plyometrics are important to the development of a D-Lineman.
· The benefits of power workouts.
· How to maximize your workout as it relates to speed, power, game endurance and preventing injuries.
· What weight to use and how many repetitions should be taken.
· The proper use of training one part of the body on different days.
· Working the core group daily with a full range of motion.
· Specific D-Lineman lifts – the power clean, dead lift, squats, lunges, bench work, shrugs, dumbbell rotations, pull-ups, weighted dips, and Russian twists.
· Grass hill training for improving the D-Lineman’s cardiovascular.
· How to get all your work completed in one hour or less.