This article is written by my Australian friend Peter Upham. Peter owns Shire Speed and Strength but also has coached, played, and S&C coached American style football for many years. He’s a student of sport history and loves talking about the theory behind training. Two of his kids have received scholarships to play at the University of Hawaii, and that’s where our journey begins.
GENERALLY FOOTBALL
by Peter Upham
Its playoff time for the NFL, College Football has reached its climax, and so as we have just bypassed the Perihelion (the furthest point from the Sun of the Earth’s orbit), those players are also the furthest point from football summer camps and the heat of preseason training.
An athlete does not just ‘do’ their sport. The athlete, does what is necessary to enhance their general abilities whilst they continue to master the technical-tactical skills of their game. For football, players give their all to win; if you’re interested to see the games live, you may want to look into these Liverpool hospitality packages.
In 1976, Terry Albritton would set the world record in the shot put at the University of Hawaii’s Cooke Field in an all-comer’s meet. The same year, Bill Starr published ‘The Strongest Shall Survive.’ Bill was the Strength and Conditioning coach at Hawaii and would hand over the job eventually to Albritton. Previous to that, he had been the Strength and Conditioning coach for the Baltimore Colts.
Terry Albritton