Google the word "workouts" and you get thousands of sites offering ideas, programs, and exercises---most are exactly the same as the ones I used in high school in the 1980's. Flip through any muscle or mens magazine and you see the same cookie cutter, body part, isolation exercises that people in the gym have been doing for fifty years. Really? Are you telling me that the strength and conditioning profession hasn't progressed at all in the last few decades? I refuse to believe the strength and conditioning profession hasn't processed at all in the last few decades. Given that more and more athletes are performing at a higher level recently, I have to think that their training methods have progressed. So I set out to learn what methods are currently being used to take average athletes and transform them into division 1 athletes. Enter Coach Robert dos Remedios, MA, CSCS and Coach Nick Winkelman from EXOS. Coach Dos coaches at College of the Canyons in Southern California. It is his job to transform average athletes into division 1 scholarship prospects. He is one of the best at what he does and his success rate backs this up. Coach Winkelman is in charge of the EXOS Combine Training Program. He is the one that trains athletes to perform at the college football combine. This is the strength program they use. Coaches Dos and Winkelman train movements not muscles. You won't find any body building, single joint, isolation exercises in their programs. Gone are the days of training like Arnold to become a better athlete. It's really simple. Train the parts that move your body in a way that makes them more efficient and you will get better results. Coaches Dos and Winkelman focus on compound exercises centered around basic movement patterns. These movement patterns are
Here is are a few examples of exercises for each movement. Explosive Movements Knee Dominant Hip Dominant Horizontal Push
Horizontal Pull
Vertical Push
Vertical Pull Core Stability Core Rotational
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