Complete Conditioning for Football

Today’s players are bigger, stronger, and faster than ever before. A focused conditioning program has become essential to on-the-field success. Complete Conditioning for Football features a comprehensive training approach that builds players’ abilities as well as the football-specific skills their positions require.

In this special book and DVD package, authors Pat Ivey and Josh Stoner explain and demonstrate the very same exercises and drills they use to develop speed, power, strength, and agility with the game’s premier collegiate and professional players. Their programs will help you

• generate explosive power to move your opponent off the line of scrimmage;
• increase first-step, reactionary, and closing speed;
• improve arm and shoulder strength for longer, more accurate passes; and
• maximize agility and leg strength to hold blocks and break or avoid tackles.

In addition, the DVD takes you onto the gridiron and into the gym to demonstrate the most effective exercises and drills for your position, skill set, and goals.

With physical assessment tests, nutrition advice, and seasonal workouts, Complete Conditioning for Football is your guide to maximizing your talents and becoming a perennial all-pro.

Pat Ivey is assistant athletic director for athletic performance at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas, where he oversees training for all sport teams at the university. Previously, Ivey held the same position at the University of Missouri. During his tenure at Missouri, he helped produce multiple first-round draft picks. He was also the director of strength and conditioning at the University of Tulsa, where he directed the efforts of all 18 sport programs.

Ivey lettered as a defensive end for the Missouri football team from 1993 to 1995 and was named the strongest athlete in the program’s history in 1995. He was signed by the San Diego Chargers after college and spent two seasons with the team. He also went on to play with the Denver Broncos and Green Bay Packers.

In May 2012, Ivey received the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association’s designation of Master Strength and Conditioning Coach (MSCC), the highest honor given in the strength and conditioning coaching profession.

Josh Stoner is the director of Speed, Strength & Conditioning at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. Previously, he was the director of strength and conditioning at the University of Missouri, where the football program produced four first-round NFL draft picks in four years under his guidance. In addition to being responsible for the athletic development of the football team, he was in charge of the throws portion of Missouri's track and field team.

As the assistant director of strength and conditioning at the University of Tulsa from 2002 to 2004, Stoner assisted with the football player development program. He was also responsible for the women's basketball, men's soccer, men's tennis, women's tennis, track and field, and cross country teams.