hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be going over the top seven
mistakes quarterbacks are making when it comes to their training and we'll start the video right now
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all right so we are going into the off season right now and most you guys are starting the
process of being able to put together what you're going to be doing here in the off season help you
in you know getting stronger faster throw further improve your release time all the good things when
it comes to improving as a quarterback and you know i want to go over some of the do nots and
a lot of times in life they do not end up being almost more important than the to do's right so
uh there's a lot of things that you can do here during the off season that will help you improve
but you really want to stay away from these do not you know mistakes when it comes to training as a
quarterback so first thing that i'm going to go over or first thing is going to be the just not
training enough overhead type exercises overhead stability overhead strength things like that so
you know when you're a quarterback you're an overhead athlete you're considered an overhead
athlete which is just somebody that you know ends up throwing up overhead you know doing stuff
overhead uh and this puts you in the same category as like olympic lifters that do overhead at or do
overhead sports or like javelin throwers picture you know there's really a lot a lot
more people than you would think that go into the overhead athlete kind of training regimen and so
as a overhead athlete you have to train like an overhead athlete and so you have to be doing
things that will require you to have the right mobility and the right strength when it comes to
you know getting your your hands and arm in that position so just making sure that you're doing
your overhead presses pull-ups snatches um you know working on your serratus really just doing
any type of exercise that will help you with your overhead strength uh grip range of motion
are all great things that you should be doing and it's something that i don't see done enough which
i think really makes a negative impact on your performance so make sure you're doing plenty of
overhead training exercises when it comes to your development and that's going to be the first thing
the second thing is focusing so much on just throwing whether it's doing seven on seven or
you know just going to a practice where you just do throwing exercises you know like you do want
to put a emphasis on developing your throwing strength and or your your throwing distance
or your accuracy things like that i'm not saying that that's something you don't want to be doing
but if you're really neglecting the gains that can be made in you know the weight room um or you
know doing field work things like that by instead going and doing these seven on seven especially if
you're lacking you know if you're only throwing the ball like 40 yards and you're in high school
you got to put more emphasis and time in developing your body and your strength or
your power and not put so much of an emphasis on what's going on in seven on seven because you've
got to be able to at the end of the day have the foundation and the fundamentals to be able
to get yourself to the next level it's not gonna happen if you're doing a bunch of seven on seven
um or you know just going to you know quarterback coach training practices
things like that like you know that stuff's all good but it's just not going to help you
in the ways that you really should be focusing on especially on the earlier parts of the off season
where you could really make a lot of big gains in your you know body and that's and put on more size
of things like that so that's going to be number two third thing and really this applies to really
everybody is just not resting and eating healthy right this is a big problem that i see with all
types of athletes that are in you know kind of that early or teen years to early 20 years is
you know just not taking care of your body and that really makes a big difference right i wish
now i ate as well and took as as good of care of myself as i do today back then and i know
my performance would have been so much so much better um you know luckily i was blessed to be
strong and athletic and powerful and having all those things going for me but you know if you're
not taking care of your body it's going to end up causing injuries it's going to have an impact
on your mental health it's going to make it so you know you you are do not set yourself up for
the types of success that you have so make sure that you're getting plenty of rest make sure that
you're eating healthy i tell athletes this all the time you know if you could go if i can go
back in time those would be the two things that i would do more of i'd rest more and i'd eat better
and i know my my overall results would have been tremendously tremendously better so make
sure you do those two things it's a very very common thing that i see a big mistake that i see
the next thing is going to be not working on plyometrics or you know like overall explosiveness
right so this is something that as a quarterback you got to be doing you got
to be doing plyometrics you know jumping landing uh explosive push-ups just explosive exercises in
general you can do it with a you know barbell as well but focus on being explosive it's not about
tempo it's not about doing the exercises slow you got to be doing these things fast
you got to be increasing your range of motion but most importantly they got to be explosive
and and i can't emphasize that enough if you are not getting more explosive on a weekly basis
then you're really going to be struggling with your release time and your ability to put a lot
of force on the ball so make sure that those two components are a staple in your workouts and you
will really have a great offseason this year the number five mistake that i see is just not doing
enough grip and postural strength exercises i did a video uh probably a couple years back now they
talked about how your grip strength has a direct correlation to your power production how much
force how much power you're able to generate and your posture has a direct correlation to your grip
so in order for you to be a more powerful person in general you got to have great posture you got
to have great grip and so by not emphasizing and improving within those areas it's going to make
it so you don't generate as much power within your body and so make sure that you have that in your
routine make sure you're improving within your grip make sure you're proving within your posture
and you know doing exercises that actually strengthen those two areas right that's not
something that you could just be you know hopeful you know you can't just stand up straight for you
know a few minutes a day and think you're gonna have good posture strength you you have to really
strengthen those muscles and put a very very focused program together that will make it
so you could actually develop them within that area and the sixth thing is doing too many reps
in your workouts and not really focusing on adding weight and really making strong
strength gains right there's a lot of different programs out there when it comes to how you can
get stronger faster right how you can really add a lot of strength to your development in a very fast
way right there's a good great structures behind it and there's too many people that
are not following these structures right you're you're doing too many reps you got to be doing
less reps add more weight get stronger get bigger get more physical as a quarterback that's what you
got to be um you know i get that you want to be you know a lot of quarterbacks want to look
nice and be clean and all that type of good stuff but at the end of the day uh to really be a great
quarterback and really to get the respect to your teammates you got to be be down to get down and
dirty you got to be down to add a lot of weight you got to be down to work out with the big guys
um and you know when you do that it really makes a big impact on on the entire team right and
everybody's got to raise their standards so really challenge yourself to add more
weight add more i go up to quarterbacks all the time when when we're working out and it's like
you need to be doing more weight than that you got to be lifted more than that you got to be
and most quarterbacks like doing bench right they like adding a lot of weight when it comes to bench
but that's about it and you know that's really not what what the game of quarterbacks about you know
it's not about being able to bench it's about being able to do a lot of pull-ups it's about
being able to be very strong in your lunges it's about being able to be very strong in you know
deadlifts being able to jump high being able to run fast you know being an overall leader when
it comes to just all the workouts all the core strength right number seven is not doing enough
core strength right that's another big thing that i see and a lot of quarterbacks that i see
are just not good with the core or not able to hold planks or not able to do a lot of
weight when it comes to you know the med balls and things like that you got to be strong you got to
be a powerful guy if you plan on playing at the next level you can probably get away with being
you know a high school quarterback and just not be a very strong guy especially if you're like six
three six four but when if you want if you have dreams and aspirations of playing at the next
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of it came from hard work a lot of it came from getting you know staying after school two hours
working out the entire two hours and you know prioritizing that and and that's what you got
to do and there's more and more quarterbacks that are starting to put a prioritization on throwing
the football a bunch and you know just having the nice tight spiral and throwing 20-yard out routes
or whatever the case may be and you know that's good but it's not going to make it so you get to
the next level what's going to make it so you get to the next level is being a strong powerful guy
that can get the ball out of their hands quick and throw the ball with a lot of velocity and
a lot of power so you know that ends up being what's most important being pretty on instagram
is not what's going to be what's most important in order to get to the next level so hopefully
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