FSU Football: Impact of ‘Noles strength and conditioning program

FSU football and being a physically strong team hasn’t gone hand-in-hand in quite some time. The new strength and conditioning coach is trying to change that.

FSU football had issues with it’s strength and conditioning program under the old regime. In fact, those issues were major reasons why the program fell off a cliff in a relative short amount of time.

There was lack of accountability from the head coach over the strength and conditioning coach. That permeated through the team and thus you had players not putting in the necessary work to get bigger, faster and stronger.

In fact, it was telling when the former coach did not take that strength and conditioning coach with him to his new destination.

Enter new FSU strength and conditioning Coach Irele Oderinde. I say new, but he’s entering his second year just like Willie Taggart and like Taggart has had to learn which players could or wanted to do what.

It seems he’s figured it out along with his team of assistants. FSU has used social media to promote some of the things happenings this summer, arguably the most important time of the year.

It’s when players mostly workout on their own, but also when the biggest gains can be made when it comes to adding size, power and strength.

Thoughts

Listen, that’s some serious weight ladies and gentlemen and I don’t recall seeing anything like that under the previous regime. I suppose the weight being lifted wasn’t big enough to brag about back then.

One other thing I notice is how great the form is on these lifts and how the teammates are there to support their brothers.

A lot of the players have added a lot of muscle and size to their frames. A number of them have shed excess weight that will allow them to play at a higher level.

These are all the little things we talk about in building a successful football program. If players come to workouts without being forced to get better, you know they’ll go all out when fall camp starts.

Whatever it takes to climb back to the top of the mountain, and it all starts with putting the work in during the offseason.  Kudos to the strength and conditioning program and the players putting that work in this summer.

Now it just needs to translate to the field and wins on the schedule with FSU getting back to dominating on the field physically the way they used to.