Your off-season manual is very addictive. You have really put together something special. I got the manual yesterday and proceeded to read 3/4ths of it before it was 1:00am and I had to be at work at 7:30 the next morning. You write well and down to earth. I think you have a lot of talent writing; keep it up!

Thanks for your awesome feedback; I’m glad you liked it!

On another note I wanted to tell you I was deeply surprised about the different phases of the off-season. It is now apparent that I should set my late off-season to four weeks out from August 23(school starts). My question to you while I’m still in the main chunk of the off-season is what should I right now after I have completed a bunch of running volume? (for example last week I ran 8x60yd sprints with 30s rest after 8xdifferent speed drills usually lasting 15yrds like fall forwards)

One week won’t throw you off too much. I would just focus on complete recovery between movement training sets for the next two weeks, and then move to your late off-season. Remember that as a quarterback, you’re not going to need to be as metabolically conditioned as another position that does a lot more running (unless you’re a Michael Vick type, of course – and I’m not referring to your criminal record).

Finally I’m going to an intense camp where I throw close to 300 passes a day. I don’t know if you remember my program but it has such an emphasis on lat strength I’m wondering if you might be able to help me modify my program to help balance out all the volume?

Thanks for your thoughts,
Will

Your best bet is to do a ton of external rotations at various positions (arms below and above 90 degrees of elevation). Include some seated rows as well as some higher rep DB stability ball bench presses every third week (in place of max effort work).

Keep up the good work!

Eric Cressey

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