Football Conditioning – The Single Best Exercise For Off-Season Football Conditioning!

With a game like football that requires more physical ability and overall resiliency than possibly any other sport you have got to have the best conditioning plan in place to withstand the season. I have included the single best exercise you can incorporate into your training program in order to achieve both top notch muscular endurance and superior cardiovascular fitness for football.

I would like to introduce to you the kettlebell swing. As you may know the kettlebell is quite possibly the single best strength and conditioning device around. I say this because of it’s versatility and broad range of lifts that you can perform with it. However, for the purpose of this article I am going to explain a single base strength endurance lift that you can implement into your football exercise program to take your game to new heights. 

As I mentioned before the kettlebell swing is a strength endurance type lift that stimulates hundreds of your muscles at one time to help you obtain total body strength and endurance. The exercise is performed by you swinging the kettlebell back and forth from between your legs up to chest height. This is done by performing what is known as the hip snap. The hip snap is a similar movement that you would implement with any other big core lift such as standard hang cleans and power cleans. However, with the kettlebell it is more continuous. This hip snap is done by you fluently and consistently flexing and extending at both your hips and knees to create the necessary momentum to swing the iron bell back and forth in an arc like motion. This strength training and conditioning workout for football is second to nothing.

If you want to take your gridiron game to the next level then you have got to invest the time to learn about the iron kettlebell and how to swing it! Train hard my friend and remember to finish the drill!