Pyke's Peek: Weighting for Football

[Harry]

This Monday morning was not as quiet as you might assume at the Athletic Center.

This is the Monday after the win over Middle Tennessee we're talking about, the Monday after the last game of the 2011 season, the first Monday in months that North Texas football players were not preparing for a game.

And yet almost all of the Mean Green players were here at the Athletic Center. Not to clean out lockers, but to lift. To continue their strength and conditioning. And to find out what football strength coach Frank Wintrich has planned for them.

"It felt great," Wintrich said. "It was the look in their eyes, seeing them pushing each other, hearing their interaction. They like what they're doing and they're excited.

"They've been 22 weeks full-on playing football."

And Monday they were asking for more.

"They've started to see the reasons we do things," Wintrich said.

Wintrich, who is in his first year at North Texas, was hired to implement strength and conditioning specifically for the football program. What Wintrich introduced was a far greater intensity level than ever before at North Texas, and a far more personalized program. It's not a cookie-cutter weightlifting program; instead, it's tailored to individual kids, to the team's style of play and to the each player's position.

Read More: http://www.meangreensports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=1800&ATCLID=205343487

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This Monday morning was not as quiet as you might assume at the Athletic Center.

This is the Monday after the win over Middle Tennessee we're talking about, the Monday after the last game of the 2011 season, the first Monday in months that North Texas football players were not preparing for a game.

And yet almost all of the Mean Green players were here at the Athletic Center. Not to clean out lockers, but to lift. To continue their strength and conditioning. And to find out what football strength coach Frank Wintrich has planned for them.

"It felt great," Wintrich said. "It was the look in their eyes, seeing them pushing each other, hearing their interaction. They like what they're doing and they're excited.

"They've been 22 weeks full-on playing football."

And Monday they were asking for more.

"They've started to see the reasons we do things," Wintrich said.

Wintrich, who is in his first year at North Texas, was hired to implement strength and conditioning specifically for the football program. What Wintrich introduced was a far greater intensity level than ever before at North Texas, and a far more personalized program. It's not a cookie-cutter weightlifting program; instead, it's tailored to individual kids, to the team's style of play and to the each player's position.

Read More: http://www.meangreensports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=1800&ATCLID=205343487

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