Dennis Santos is a strength training expert. Here he teaches the right way to prepare for and do squats to avoid injury and get the full benefits of squat exercises.
I can probably get Dennis to teach other exercises as well, even those you can do without weights. Use the comments section below to let me know what kinds of exercises you might be interested in, or what you would like to accomplish with a workout program.
(There are 5 videos on this page so give them a minute to load – only first will preload)
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Video #1 – How to overcome mistakes and how to progress through the technique.
Video #2 – Waking up the hip flexors to properly perform the squat.
Video #3 – Getting activation of the right muscle groups.
Video #4 – Turning on the right muscles in the right sequence.
Video #5 – The Squat – King of all exercises.
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Hi Bob, can you recommend me some exercises to improve on hockey skills. Thanks.
The STRIKE FASTER martial arts program is a most suitable and helpful program for hockey players. This very comprehensive program addresses all four phases of skating: load, push, glide and return. It includes many of our RUN FASTER program’s basic lower body exercises as well as unique upper body exercises that help counter balance the lower body motions. It also involves basic upper body movements of the arms to help increase momentum. So, your best bet, and a great one at that, would be to use the STRIKE FASTER program and do all of the exercises as prescribed. Here’s the link to the Strike Faster Martial Arts Speed Program.
How about field hockey? Is the STRIKE FASTER program also the best bet?
For field hockey I would go with the RUN FASTER program. It will be easier to do also.
I have the run faster program and jump higher program. I was wondering if there are good plyometric exercises to do along with isometric training. Thanks
Do you have some exercises for soccer goalkeepers to help improve their jumping abilities?
Thank you
For exercises to improve jumping use this link:
http://www.athleticquickness.com/Jump-Higher.asp
Could you show me how to do front squats, olympic lifts, and one legged squats. THanks
great videos!
do you have some good core exercises that help increasing strength and power for basketball players? Maybe a program that I can do over the summer?
If so, please use my email
Bob,
Thanks so much for your quick and informative reply.
Don Ervin
kom_ervin@yahoo.com
I do not see it mentioned whether or not your program is built around Olympic lifting, we find that Olympic lifting relates closely to baseball pitching movements and strengthening various areas during their rehabilitation period after surgeries such as Labrum’s, Tommy John etc.
The way they are executed and their triple extension assets connected to the pitching movement from start to front foot touch down in particular are very beneficial to all pitchers.
Don Ervin
kom_ervin@yahoo.com
Don, There are many aspects to training that an athlete should take advantage to get a well rounded and complete program to help him or her perform in all the skills pertaining their sport. Strength, coordination, agility, speed, endurance, mental focus, skill technique development and more should all be included to some degree in an athletes training.
An area that is often overlooked and shown to be very effective is developing muscle speed using resistance bands and isometrics. Our position is that this type of speed training will improve an athletes performance by developing more speed in their skills, and should be included in their workout routines along with their other training programs.
would like excercises that will increase club head speed. I’m 68 yrs. old
Michael, Take a look at this video for club head speed.
Scroll down to the video named The Gold Power Drive Program.
Great instructional videos. Down load time is really really slow though for some reason.Probably something technical you could do to speed these up. I would also like to see Lunges and any exercise that would be useful in increasing sprint track speed. Roy
Great videos guys! This is very helpful information for any athlete, especially football kickers, punters, soccer players, and MMA guys. ‘Waking Up’ the hip flexors is very important as you mention. Keep up the good work and please don’t stop bringing out the training videos for all to see.
The videos are really good good work are there any instructional videos on exercises like the snatch or power clean thanks a lot
Great videos! Unfortunately, videos #4 & #5 would not load. I refreshed the site multiple times with no success. I am using high-speed internet (1.0 Gps) at work, so bandwidth/speed should not be the issue.
I would also like to see some “how-to” videos on clean-and-jerk, deadlifts, one-legged squats, and lunges.
Thanks for the great instruction!
I set Videos 4 & 5 to not preload to speed things up a bit. However they should start playing when you click the play icon in the middle of the player.
Fantastic information especially with the one-legged stiff deadlift. Thanks.
Please send excersise videos to my email. Please send excersises that dont involve resistance bands and let the videos be about getting faster