Zone Ready Press Release 2.8.10 Class in Session Saugus, CA – Last weekend, Saugus High School held its 6th annual football clinic catering to area high school and college coaches. Topics ranged from the extremely detailed to the informal sharing of wisdom from years of service as a coach. Regardless, of the topic – everyone got a taste of something unique and fresh and left with some gold nuggets to share when they went back to their team on Monday. ZoneReady Coach Chris Gizzi had the honor of presenting two topics that we received in the same spirit in which they were created – the perfect blend of football knowledge and strength and conditioning. Coach Gizzi explains, “It is crucial that your topic and content fits your audience like a glove. Coaches have a limited amount of time and usually have to coach, instruct, and monitor close to a hundred athletes at one time. They need knowledge that fits in those parameters and is something their players can learn (and learn quickly).” Enter ZoneReady’s “Tackling 101” and “Practicing at 100mph” – two individual briefings that are a compilation for Coach Gizzi’s experience at a professional football player, a college football coach, and a sports performance consultant. “Tackling 101” combined some competitive and easy to teach non-contact tackling drills that players can use in their training before practice even starts. “Practicing at 100mph” gives the coaches drills and concepts to improve their practice tempo, effectiveness, and safety. 
“I personally enjoy melding the attitude of the football field with that of the weightroom or off-season training program. In my mind, they are one in the same. Sure there are phases of exclusivity to one arena of the other as well as overlap of the two. But in my view – everything that happens in training must show up in competition. In other words: ‘It’s gotta show up on the grass!’” Coaches in attendance received both presentations with open arms and showed their appreciation by doing one thing – taking lots of notes. Coach Gizzi reminded the coach’s to follow up on www.zoneready.net to see free videos of many for the exercises highlighted and to use the 9 week FOOTBALLready program (this is a free online training program complete with workout schedule and hundreds of videos). And for the coaches who wanted more, ZoneReady thought of that too. Coaches can get their hands on Tackling 101 – The Field Drills DVD right off the ZoneReady website. This DVD is an hour packed of tackling drills that players can practice in their off-season program. Coaches will appreciate the detailed instruction and high quality video. As Coach Gizzi reminds all those in attendance at Saugus, “Let’s not wait till August to teach tackling, let’s start in January.” 
Coach Chris Gizzi will be presenting at the Glazier Mega Clinic in Costa Mesa, CA on February 19th. Learn more at http://zoneready.net/footballready.asp. And to get your hands on the Tackling 101 – The Field Drills DVD, stay right on www.zoneready.net and go to the products store in the Sport Ready Program Category. |
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