My Off-Season with the Denver Broncos by Loren Landow & MIKE KLIS

Author:Loren Landow & MIKE KLIS
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781589797529
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing

Joe Mays and Cassius Vaughn prepare the body with dynamic flexibility “elbow to instep” prior to a hard conditioning session.

Landow wants to win. He wants the Broncos to win. And the last time Landow watched the Broncos play, they had just finished a 4–12 season.

Call a player old. Call a player inexperienced. Call a player tiny or heavy or slow. Just don’t call him a player on a 4–12 team. That’s like calling a player a loser. Never call a player a loser.

Landow’s comment—you warm up like a 4–12 team—hit ’em where it hurt.

“It did get under our skins a little bit,” Mays said. “It woke a lot of guys up. We had that mentality where we were going through the motions. That’s pretty much what happened that (2010) season. We went through the motions. We didn’t really go out and do anything to make us better.

“The way we played the season before—it was one of those things we needed to hear.”

Ordinarily, Landow keeps it loose. He can cut up with the best of them. He creates an atmosphere where players want to work, want to work out. Look forward to working out.

There isn’t a person in America, especially around the New Year, who hasn’t gotten fired up to work out. But are they fired up in week two? Do they still look forward to dragging themselves to the gym by mid-February?

Eventually, working out stirs feelings closer to drudgery than excitement. Where Landow is able to keep his players interested is in the results.

Mays noticed how Landow’s running techniques improved his explosion. Cassius Vaughn could tell he was quicker to the ball merely because of his improved foot transfer.

Landow kept it loose, sure. But pay attention when he’s all business and you’ll learn something.

Said Landow: “I could show the guys that by accelerating with the wrong foot when they were coming out of a break was making them slower—and that’s huge when you look at a defensive guy. And it’s not even a mental decision. It’s a subconscious decision on what they’re going to use when they break to cover a receiver, or an offensive player. I wanted to show different players how inefficient they were.”

The initial workouts were heavy on footwork, coordination, and transitional movements into acceleration. There would be box drills, exercises that worked on a player’s overall agility.

Landow’s workouts feature quick-burst, high-intensity drills; then, give the athlete a minute break.

Then go again for not even five minutes. This was football he was training for, not a marathon.

Said Landow: “You have to look at the demands of the sport. In football we have an average of four to five seconds per play. When you’re working four to five seconds per play, we’re using a predominant energy system. A specific fuel. In that five seconds we’re using what’s called ATP-PC.”

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