Renegade Training for Football: The Ultimate Guide to Developing Maximum Strength, Maximum Speed and Maximum Power by Coach Davies

Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #746202 in Books
Published on: 2002-06
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
225 pages
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About the Author
Coach Davies develops comprehensive training packages for all facets and levels of football, from high school to college to the NFL. Internationally, Coach Davies has been acclaimed for his work with European and South America soccer teams.

His Renegade Training philosophy is controversial but has proved highly successful in application. According to Coach Davies: "The sheer brutality of my work is probably the reason why my work is so controversial. My approach to work thresholds is unquestionably the crux of arguments against my training philosophy. My athletes are constantly reminded of the relentless, violent nature of their sport and our training reflects that.

Football in its purest form can be simply explained as a sport played by enormous men, of tremendous strength at an alarmingly fast pace. You must prepare your body and mind for the battle ahead. Preparation quickly decides who are the victors and the vanquished. I do not merely ask a lot of my athletes, I ask more than they ever imagined."

Coach Davies instills a "warrior mindset" in his athletes. The result: a stand-out toughness capable of excelling in the controlled chaos and extreme stress of modern football. Physically, his athletes have consistently broken through past performance barriers to dramatically enhance their speed, strength and power.
Customer Reviews

Dont buy this
My main beef with this book is that, like everybody has already said, it's just a collection of pictures and description with some "rah-rah-rah" pep talk included in between about being a renegade. Although, some routines are laid out like the speed and jump rope exercises, there was no explanation on how to incorporate it in a training plan. There was not even an explanation of basic physiology and training principles.

It's probably okay if you already have a basic foundation on training methodology but for a beginner or a novice, it's better if you look somewhere else.

Plus, you can actually find in the internet 90% of the stuff in the book in John Davies's past articles.

Nice crazy book
This is how I trained. Run a 1.7 mile MOUNtain everyday in the heat of the say. Push cars back and forth in the heat of the day. Do 500 push ups a night. Kids and adults seem to think they can do something in some nice tights with arm bands and ipods and get stronger. Shoot throw that stuff out and roll in the dirt or forget it. Thanks CAVE MAN>

bad book by a fraud
Davies is a complete fraud but a brilliant marketer. the book cotains no detail to his training programs but rather a bunch of exercises. He outright lied about training Ben Johnson, which was totally false since Charlie Francis himself (bens trainer) said so, lied about designing the program at Clemson and Northwestern. All he does is take a bunch of different looking exercises and put them in a book. his programs are unstructured with no regards to recovery and the work loads are ubsurd. Awful book by a huge fraud