Offseason Football Conditioning: Turkish Get Ups

Series Summary

Making that smash tackle, completing a game-winning pass, stopping a tough defender, or intercepting the ball at a crucial point in the game: all of these will earn you the respect and admiration of teammates and fans alike. But it’s impossible to play the game of football like a superstar if you haven’t put in the hard work behind the scenes. Every first down run that Emmitt Smith made for the Dallas Cowboys reflected a lifetime of sacrifice, determination, and training. Even when the football season is over, the real football players continue to train and condition themselves. Let's face it- you can always be better and stronger with enough dedication. In this free video series, learn some exercises that you can do during the football offseason. Conditioning yourself for the game is essential to playing it better, and with these exercises, you will see a difference in your strength and speed. Let our expert, Michael Rosengart, show you how to condition for football. Learn how to do simple exercises: the dumbbell, planks, push ups, and climbing rope. Also, learn about some exercises that are designed specially for football condition: superman, renegade row, and more. With this video series, you WILL be ready for the football season. So, what are you waiting for? Learn about offseason football conditioning today!

Video Transcript

" Off season training for football - the warm up Turkish get ups. Welcome back to the third workout, we are going to start this warm up with a series of exercises and the first one is going to be Turkish get ups. Today's workout is going to be more about functional training but more in the realm of strength and then our following workout will be functional training as well but more for conditioning. So Jonesy is going to show us what the Turkish get up is, so he is going to lay down on the floor and get started. We are going to use a dumbbell; concerning that most people will not have a kettlebell to work with but if you do have a kettlebell by all means use a kettlebell. It will help for more shoulder stability. So he is laying flat on the floor. He is going to have one leg up, the same leg that is on the same side as the arm that holds the dumbbell. He is going to work his way all the way up from the floor and then back down. He is using that left arm, that off arm, to help brace and then push off the floor into his squat, and then up like that. So on this other angle I want to show how to pick up the dumbbell. Roll onto your side, use both hands, it is going to help protect your rotator cuff and shoulder, and then extend straight up. I want to also let you know that while using this warm up, we are going to be looking for ten Turkish get ups for each side. If you want to alternate between each side as you are going that is fine. If you want to do ten on one side and then ten on the other side that is fine as well. We are looking for ten for each side. He knows how he is pressing into his hand as he is coming up. Really getting the side of his body to work, helping to develop, stabilizing muscles and strength in your shoulder. He is coming up, sits up, gets the leg back underneath him, then comes up and works straight up. Steps back, lowers the knee down, also notice he has a nice smooth rhythm to his motions."