Stack Magazine

By Bill Rom

Football isn’t just a contact sport; it is a collision sport. The impact of the hits during a football game has been compared to being in a car accident. When dealing with this kind of force, our b […]

Be bigger, stronger, faster—the universal desire of athletes. To achieve these goals, a training program moves through muscle gain, strength and power phases.

However, I always ran into a problem. During the i […]

8 core exercises that are better than situps By Jimmy Pritchard What’s Wrong With the Sit-Up? For decades the bent-knee sit-up has served as the go-to core exercise by […]

Despite my job title as a strength and conditioning coach, I care far more about power than I do strength.

Whereas strength is the ability to exert force, power is the ability to exert force quickly.

As it […]

Advanced 2-Exercise Combo That Improves Football Power and Explosiveness Success, for football players, is largely determined by their power and strength. They must be able to explosively drive into the […]

How Olympic Lifts Increase Speed Increasing speed involves a combination of improving running mechanics and getting stronger. Several different strength programs […]

What are your three keys that will make you more successful? Write them down. Put them to memory. When you can call upon them to filter whether a behavior is good or bad for you, your key’s will begin to unlock […]

Calling a defense is one of the greatest challenges in football. Game plans are based entirely on prediction—predicting what formations an offense will line up in, what sort of personnel they will use, and what s […]

Tom Brady’s performance at the 2000 NFL Combine was horrendous.

He ran a snail-like 5.28 in the 40-Yard Dash and recorded an abysmal 24.5-inch Vertical Jump, third-worst of any player at that year’s C […]

Ohio State’s wide receiver room is a bonafide pro factory.

Since 2015, eight Buckeye receivers have been drafted into the NFL.

The pipeline likely won’t dry up anytime soon, as Ohio State’s top-ranked […]

Of all the athletic marvels the human body’s capable of, a world-class Triple Jump might be the most mind-boggling. An Olympic event since 1896, the Triple Jump sees athletes utilize a running start before […]

4 Unconventional Exercises for Insane Functional Strength Trainers, coaches and conditioning specialists alike know the importance of sport-specific training. Sport-specific training is […]

Speed kills. Christian McCaffrey is living proof.

McCaffrey’s production has taken a quantum leap forward this season, an extraordinary feat when you consider he was a second-team All-Pro in 2018.

Eight […]

Let’s face it. No matter how dedicated you are to training for your sport or health, sometimes you’re just pressed for time and can’t quite make a normal training session happen. That’s when you need quick […]

Christian McCaffrey's 'No. 1' Weight Room Exercise “Ironman.” “Superhuman”.  “Thor’s long-lost brother”. Christian McCaffrey’s teammates often resort to the […]

Why Carolina Panthers RB Christian McCaffrey trains like a track athlete in the offseason Christian McCaffrey is a workhorse who moves like a racehorse. The Carolina Panthers running back totaled 326 touches in […]

Agility is one of the most important skills an athlete can possess. To be successful in sports, you have to be able to stop on a dime and accelerate explosively in a new direction, or you won’t be able to ha […]

For an athlete or coach who’s just beginning to dive into the world of strength and conditioning, the topic has arguably never felt more confusing.
As the internet continues to get flooded with a seemingly […]

8 Drills For Building NFL-Style Speed and Explosiveness Speed kills. Perhaps this fact is no more apparent than in football. A football field is only 100 yards long and 53.33 […]

We’ve all heard it before: Speed kills. Every athlete is concerned about how fast they are and what they have to do to get “faster.” Yet speed training is one of the most misunderstood areas in the strength […]