Offenses win football games on the ground. The glory may come from the passing games, but a good running back is a quarterback's best friend. A great running back will gain positive yards, pass protect the quarterback, block for his fellow running backs and carry out great fakes to assist his team.

Alabama and LSU were the top two football teams in the nation in 2012. What do they have in common? They both use the Gayle Hatch Olympic based strength & conditioning program.

Gayle Hatch was recently voted Weightlifting coach of the century. He has been involved in helping train five BCS National Championship teams, 1 AP National Championship team , 2 Division II National Championship team and numerous High School teams. In addition to his great work and amazing results with football teams he was the United States Olympic Weight lifting Head Coach in 2004 His credentials of mentoring Division I Head College Strength coaches is too long to list.

Coach Hatch uses a world class lifter in this video to demonstrate the Olympic lifts used in his program. This video takes you step-by-step in how to correctly perform Olympic Lifts that will benefit your football players and program. This Olympic lift program will help your players become more explosive and be prepared for the demands of the violent and explosive nature of football. It includes excellent demonstrations of the lift by a world-class lifter while Coach Hatch covers the correct technique in great detail. Movements such as the power clean, jerk and snatch are taught. In addition to the main Olympic lifts Coach Hatch includes assistant lifts and plyometrics that will help your football players. This video is a must for any coach in charge of training their football players to play at their highest level.

You will learn how implement a routine to teach your players how to get the most out of their body and become the best that they can be. As a bonus, Coach Hatch discusses his warm-up and supplemental lifts that add to the overall power of his ground based Olympic lifts.

Join the many coaches and programs that have implemented the Hatch system and won championships. If you don't, hope that you don't play somebody that is!

67 minutes. 2012.

A pioneer of Olympic style strength training, Gayle Hatch's Olympic based strength and conditioning program has helped countless strength coaches on the professional, collegiate and high school levels reach a better understanding of explosive strength training for all athletes. His philosophies were utilized in recent years by strength coaches at LSU, Alabama, Miami, Tennessee and USC to win seven BCS Football National Championships.

Core training is a must in any athlete. Ground based Olympic lifts are important in structuring your core program; Coach Hatch shares his lifts and knowledge of over 35 years of coaching the core. You get 30 dynamic drills and exercises that will make any athlete stronger in the core as well as stronger on the field and court.

With a help of his Olympic lifters Coach Hatch gives you his entire core strengthening program in this DVD. He'll show you how to:

• Implement a comprehensive core training program
• Integrate both weight training and stability ball training for total core strength
• Use medicine ball exercises for dynamic results
• Train the core with ground based Olympic lifts

54 minutes. 2012.

David Kelly brings decades of coaching experience to the wide receiver position. As a head high school football coach he compiled a record of 80-36-1 and won a Georgia High School AAAA State Championship. He has coached at the NCAA Division 1 level for over 10 years at perennial powerhouses such as LSU, Georgia and Georgia Tech. As a coach and educator, Kelly understands successful coaching is based on effective teaching. Throughout this DVD Kelly covers every aspect of the wide receiver position and offers coaches a blueprint for developing young receivers.

Position progression is explained so that coaches understand the need to begin coaching in the classroom. Using an overhead and practice video, Coach Kelly takes you through his progression of fundamentals for playing receiver.

The next step in position progression is moving to the field to demonstrate the drills required to teach the fundamentals. Kelly gives you key teaching points and strategies in the following areas.

• Four key wide receiver elements of stance, release, top of the route and finishing the route
• Develop the receivers blocking skills and how this leads to big plays in the running game
• Understand the importance of the first four steps in the pass route
• Read the triangle in route running
• How to catch low, high and back shoulder passes
• Deal with the distractions of catching a ball in traffic
• Attack the ball in flight, make the catch, explode up field and finish
• Multiple releases (such as a speed, stutter and diamond) versus press coverage and cover 2 corners

This DVD offers drills and techniques that will help coaches establish efficient and effective wide receiver play.

73 minutes. 2012.

Building Your Best FOCUS for Winning Football!

Rick McGuire, a 30 year NCAA Division 1 Coach and nationally recognized leader in Applied Sport Psychology, provides clear and concise ideas and understandings that will guide Football Coaches at all levels in teaching their athletes the SKILL of FOCUS! These will include:

• FOCUS is a skill. FOCUS is a Sports Skill. Like all skills, FOCUS can be taught and learned!
• The Foundation for FOCUS in Football
• The 5 Key Skills to FOCUS in Football
• Taking FOCUS to the Football Field
• How and when to use the FOCUS skills
• How to be totally FOCUSED, and the to be REFOCUSED for the next play . EVERY PLAY

"The understandings and skills that are included in From the Whistle to the Snap are used by our players and coaches at every workout, every practice, every day!"
Gary Pinkel, University of Missouri Tigers Head Football Coach

68 pages. 2012.

One of the more versatile coaches in college football today, Al Seamonson brings tremendous experience to the linebacker position. He has coached at the NCAA Division 1 level for over 25 years. Seamonson has prepared a number of defensive players for the NFL over the years, including All-Pro Shawne Merriman. As a former Division I player, he understands the skill and technique needed to be successful at the linebacker position.

Coach Seamonson creates a complete outline for playing linebacker in the 4-3 defense. He covers everything from preparation, drills, reads, recognition to actually playing the game. Through the use of illustrations and game video, he covers formation keys and coverage's for the Sam, Mike and Will linebackers.

Beginning with the mental side of linebacker play, you will learn his "musts for success." He covers topics such as effort, communication and mental toughness. These points, among others, are important because they are the basis for developing quality football players.

Moving to the techniques, Coach Seamonson reveals six keys to pre-snap success for the linebacker followed by progressive teaching at the position. Items include knowing the calls for the defense as well as understanding all of the positions on the field. Alignment, assignments and proper physical technique are discussed along with execution, pursuit defeating blocks and tackling among others.

Zone pass coverage responsibilities to include proper drop angles are explained. Keys for level one and level two linebackers are explained to include proper alignments of 10, 20, 30, and 40 linebackers. Receiver assignments for multiple formations are described so that coaches have an easy plan for teaching coverage responsibilities.

Coach Seamonson covers angle tackling and the drills that are needed daily to ensure effective linebacker open field tackling. Fundamentals of tackling are taught so that coaches understand how proper technique is critical to player safety. Coach Seamonson explains how the eyes are the key to good tackling and where your linebackers should fix their eyes to prevent missed tackles. He covers the shimmy tackle and how it is used in open field tackling. Coaching points for goal line tackling are included.

Video footage on stopping the run is shared from multiple games. Seamonson follows the run footage up with general points on pass concepts, zone progressions and game film on the passing game. Blitz pass rush technique is highlighted and several key points to blitzing are shared along with blitz video footage.

Coach Seamonson provides an effective guide for coaches to develop the tools of the trade for the linebacker position to use when teaching linebacker play in the 4-3 defense that will make your backers a cut above.

121 minutes. 2012.