Train Like an NFL Player (FOOTBALL WORKOUT!)

If you ever wondered whether you could cut it as an NFL player, you first have to see if you can make it through an NFL football workout. In this video, I take former Green Bay Packers Super Bowl Champion Greg Jennings through a dynamic leg workout to help him build explosive strength and athleticism. See if you can keep up as you follow along this complete leg workout.
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To start, we have to make sure we warmup. Most of the time, people turn their warmups into workouts by making them too long. The only goal of your warmup should be to prepare your body to be capable of performing the exercises of the workout without form compromise or injury. The leg swings and hurdle unders are two of the fastest ways to mobilize the hips and muscles of the legs to prepare you for the work to come.
First exercise up is the banded box squat. As part of a lower body dynamic workout, the goal for this training is not strength. Instead, you want to focus on speed of movement and overall athleticism and power. This means that the overall system load you want to subject yourself to is about 60 to 75 percent of your 1RM in combined resistance (from both bands and the weight on the bar). Ideally, you will put about 20-30% of this in the form of bands.
Realize, in the case of this example, Greg is being represented as a 300 pound squatter. Sixty percent of this would be 180lbs. With one hundred and thirty five pounds on the bar and fifty pounds in band resistance, we are able to reach the goal system weight total. Keep in mind, this resistance is only realized at the top of the movement where the bands are fully stretched. At lower depths, the bands are more slack and there is less tension being contributed to the bar.
This does help to match up the strength curve of the added resistance to the natural resistance of the squat as an exercise however.
Next, we perform a combination of a front side loaded bulgarian front squat with a backside loaded version. The difference is simply the position of the body in space. When standing upright, the load is going to be borne by the quads primarily. When leaning forward, the hamstrings and glutes will take the lion’s share of the workload. The key in either environment is not to place your front foot up on a box if your back foot stays on the floor. This either limits range of motion of the working leg or completely eliminates the tension on this leg at the top of the rep.
To finish up the workout, you have to add more to this banded exercises and unilateral leg exercise. It’s important to include a dynamic jumping or sprinting exercise. In both cases, you can either do a straight vertical exercise, horizontal exercise or change of direction movement. Here we do twisting box jumps for that athletic change of direction.
The reps should be kept precise and at high energy. If you find that you are fatiguing and that the quality of the jump is declining then you need to stop your set and regroup before continuing.
Finally, the hip hinge is a critical component that needs to be trained. We choose the cable pull through as a great option to get this done. Just like the upper body equivalent, the face pull, it is key that you fire up the right muscles here to perform this exercise correctly. Make sure that the often underactive glutes are what does the work here by keying on their firing and sequencing on every rep you perform.
This is just a sample of one type of lower body workout that an NFL player might do. Of course, you want to be sure that you are working on your max effort strength levels as well. For a complete program that works all of these training methods into one step by step program, be sure to head to athleanx.com at the link below and check out the Monster Maker program.
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"this is a game to you, THIS IS MY LIFE"

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Big Facts

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Jeff should definitely post more athletic videos like this one and the AB one

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Especially with different kinds of athletes, soccer, basketball etc

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Yes! This is functional training right?

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Fabian A Definitely this is the point of the athletic approach seen in this video

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Athletes don't want to be all up in people's KZbin videos....

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The box was for box squats, not for shirts

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4:20 warmup 6:20 box squat 11:36 / 14:25 2 versions of the BG split 17:40 twisting box jumps 20:00 hip hinge cable-pull perform all as shown, explosively. see description for reps and sets

[@intisar420]

Thanks Man

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When jeff drives, he doesnt let go of the gas pedal till he feels his calf contract

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lmfaoo

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true story.

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😂😆😂😆

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I don’t normally browse the comments on this channel expecting laughs but That was funny

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Lol

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Jeff once punched a guy with his shoulders externally rotated, the guy died

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Hahaha

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Akira Trolliyama 👏🏻🤣

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🤣🙂🤣🤣🤣

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Can we all appreciate how Jeff is a top caliber trainer who literally trains some of the best athletes in the world, and he gives us hundreds of hours of content for free?

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Jeff took a lie detector test Tha machine confessed every thing.

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🤣🤣🤣

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Machine: "I haven't been doing facepulls lately😔"

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@@mojo6112 oh no..

[@ofir0]

Hilarious

[@xmark9x598]

Jennings is 5’11 and Jeff claimed he is 5’10.5 . I think he lied about that as seen on the video

[@kjalleyne15]

Never thought I’d see them playing Xbox in the X-Box

[@StevieBuckleyPT]

Ken Alleyne 🤣💯

[@Guardian179]

Searched the comment section for this comment. I'm not disappointed.

[@kazuoua]

"If you ever wondered whether you could cut it as an NFL player..." No, Jeff. I have never wondered that.

[@BigstickNick]

Shit was made clear in 8th grade.

[@joshuaizly5502]

@@BigstickNick I felt that

[@yeetwchybaban]

@@BigstickNick loool

[@JohnSmith-qs5fg]

When I'm paid like a pro athlete, I'll train like one. I'm good with not straining a muscle getting up to pee in the middle of the night. 😀

[@kianshirvaniassl9642]

Can you do a ”Train like a UFC fighter” next?

[@joevergara9922]

I second this

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Featuring Firas Zahabi

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just watch Nadi Agular's channel and do the exact opposite

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mma fighter*

[@alialtinel2960]

KONODIODA ufc isn't a sport

[@productiveyou7069]

Jeff can you train Gurley so he gives me some damn fantasy points

[@wwaazzaa100]

Traded him for Saquads and im happy. Barkley playoff schedule easy

[@productiveyou7069]

@@wwaazzaa100 just traded for Bell, pretty happy about it

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Productive You no you aren’t

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@@olgacantu4179 que?

[@EdwinCristobal]

I lost gains because I didn't see Jesse's intro

[@no_more_free_nicks]

It kills brain cells, beware.

[@lowkeybalr9764]

Why watching Jesse's intro is killing your gains Next video

[@StevieBuckleyPT]

Edwin Cristobal yeh, bring back the intro!! 💯

[@ericeverson5956]

Best video yet. Greg was an excellent student. Love what he said to Jesse "To you this is a game, to me its my life" Thanks much Jeff. All the best.

[@thebutcher5032]

I tried to train like OJ Simpson but that workout was murder

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lol

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Hey Twitter world, it's ya man OJ.

[@timt8925]

My Mike vick workout had me dogged

[@thebutcher5032]

OJ workout left me with a stabbing pain in my back Colin kaepernick workout I never even broke a sweat just kneeling Adrian Peterson had me beat, no KIDding

[@timt8925]

The Ray rice workout really knocked out my wife

[@leovigildomota6921]

Hi jeff my name is Leovigildo Mota im from the dominican republic and i watch your videos and i relly love them,to be honest i had learn o lot from your videos and i keep learning,i own a small gym here in D,R AND I HELP o lot of people using what i learned from your videos,you actually change the way i workout and train others,love your videos,i think you do a great job.

[@leonestello]

13:38 "How you position your body in space is going to have a distinct determination on what muscles are working."😄 -Jeff "the man cannon" Cavalier 🤔 ... Haha I'll see myself out😣 17:43 20:30

[@gaboumachine4486]

Hey Jeff, since all muscles matter, can u do a video on the tibialis anterior, you haven't done in 1066 videos

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Why though?

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For real tho

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Muscle markers please

[@rayjbo]

Yeah when is shin day?

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Jeff the people have spoken

[@roadhouse6999]

I'm excited for Athlean-X to become Jesse and Greg Jennings' let's play channel.

[@bigveinydickcheney5184]

I've been working on my hamstrings for a while now and its tough.. I like them more in slices

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TRAIN LIKE A FOOTBALL PLAYER (starts of playing madden on xbox)

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Madden: Vital to muscle Recovery!

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@@tdh72 LMFAO

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Cesar Garcia 😂💯

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Gotta train the mind

[@AmitDas-wp4vp]

What's the secret to explosiveness Jeff? Jeff: FACE PULLS!

[@zero2hero99]

Darren Sharper.. one of the most hardest hitting safeties in the leeeeeege.. he put the team on his back tho

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shame about the rape lol

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Wonder what Jeff would say bout him playing the whole game w a broken leg

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Artie Bucco Iconic

[@MrTommylicious]

"He put the weight on his back doe, greeeeg jenniiiings"

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ON HIS BACK DOEEE!!!

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I was like if no one says it I will!

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Legendary ass video 😤💯🤝

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Lol only 6 likes must mean you have completely different fan base

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No. Look up "twerking" and you will see some legendary ass videos

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I thought he was gonna show a new exercise called the kettlebell-QB-Helmet-Smash🏈

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David T brilliant! 🤣💯

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Jesse finally gets an intro at the actual into of the video 🙏🏼

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0:28 , Yeah athlean X people have to be gamers , i mean it is callled '' The X-Box'' after all :p

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NO!

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the internet needs you guys to collab with Dom Mazzetti (bro science life)

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KZbin should remove the dislike button from this channel.

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I strongly agree 👍

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Remove the haters hitting it

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Be a boss and stop giving a fuck about such things when you finish reading my comment.

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@Jason Hammond ture 👌

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That was Jesse’s best intro!

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MotoJP 💯😂

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VIDEO REQUEST: SAVE US ALL FROM "SHIN SPLINTS" SINCERELY, ALL THE PEOPLE WHO RUN

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Laly M. Great idea!

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We all have something when we run too much, for me it’s my hip flexor, for some it’s their knee, for some their ankle, and for a lot shin splints. I think ur supposed to do a warmup before you run so like run a mile at regular pace, stretch after for 30 secs each muscle, but especially stretch the calf’s but only for 30 seconds, after the run maybe do some calf raises to strengthen the calfs, and stretch calfs after the run

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Laly M. Sorru I mean stretch calfs after the run if your not gonna workout your calves or legs after your run, or stretch the cAlfs after your leg workoit

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When Jeff say the face pull workout I’m like “Al shit here we go again”

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If I did those single leg dips at my gym the lunk alarm would go off

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Get out of PF. Its the worst gym

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So early I internally rotated my giveaway

[@Marco-fc5uf]

When Jeff hits someone he makes sure to go full ROM to completely contract his pecs.

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At this point I'm going to get gains before I win the giveaway

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Seeing Jesse's face almost made me drop my phone in the toilet.

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SAME BRO IM IN THE TOILET

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The threat is real

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Seeing Jesse's face makes me want to drop my phone in the toilet.

[@nextlevelangling3705]

A year ago today exactly. I was 6’1 220 pounds and a freshman in college. I wasn’t exactly fat but I was getting chubby from not playing football anymore and the whole freshman 15 hit me pretty hard. I ate like shit. Didn’t do anything. Felt depressed about it. But then I swear to god I was on KZbin being a lazy ass and saw your video on when to know if you’re training hard enough. That inspired me to start training every single day. 4-day program. Push. pull. legs. cardio & core. Repeat. I am now in absolutely amazing shape. Not bragging or anything but I’m jacked. I’ve been communicating with the coaches here at Texas A&M University and they seem to believe in me. They got me in contact with some of the schools personal trainers and next year I’m going to walk on. I know you probably will never see this but thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[@samuelwilbanks9184]

Next video recommendation,- “How to train like an NBA player.”

[@oldmate6005]

Nah NFLs way more athletic

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Train biceps only and your diet consists of 2 blunts a day and a granola bar

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Didn’t think I could love this channel more & then you bring on Greg Mother F🤘cking Jennings!!!! I love the Packers & I love Greg💚💛💚 Go Pack Go!

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GUYS I JUST WON THE GIVEAWAY

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Liar.

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Tell me ur insta and send me the schedule p

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DONT PUSH IT

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my friend won a few weeks ago after trying for a month, ive been trying ever since jeff started doing the giveaways and havent won lmao

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I won like 2 months ago, won NXT.

[@TheSkull698]

Jeff’s is the only channel that can draw my attention to watch a video for over 25 mins during the TNF game. He always demonstrates and clearly explains the rationale behind each movement that really helps a simpleton like me incorporate these lifts into my workouts. And major kudos to Greg Jennings for putting himself front and center for this workout. Keep up the outstanding work. Thanks guys!

[@duchi882]

*When you realize* You don't look much different from Jesse in that first pic

[@macsaul3425]

Dude, I'm in 8th grade and have been following Jeffs workouts for about a year and have seen massive changes I bigger than the average junior football player and I'm coming in as a freshman lol Just found this and I am already sharing it with my friends at school thank you very much, sir!

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a legend says that jeff was born with a sixpack.

[@MemeGang420]

He was, just like everyone.

[@iminmissouri8589]

The forward and backward push was a great explanation.

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We need Shannon Sharpe on one of these

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You know typically people who can afford trainers and such get access to information like this but I'm so damn glad he puts it out there for everyone.

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I'm coming out the locker room guys. I'm L.T.G.B. "Let The Gains Begin"

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LGBT: let the gains begin today

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@@kraken7784 let the gays begin

[@Ryleycompetition_performance]

accidentally dislike this video but absolutely love how you prioritize the necessary body maintenance to keep your body functioning optimally. I wouldn’t mind more videos about taking the necessary steps to prep your body for its best performance. I’m currently taking my kinesiology degree but your practical understanding is setting a standard for me to do so. I aim to make myself the best Athlete I can be, more aware of how my body works how to achieve my goals and how to stay healthy and injury free. Mean while I value your advice as The knowledge of training to fill in the gaps. Training in the most effective and safe way for performance and long term health is very valuable to me. Thanks for all the tips.👍

[@masterbulgokov]

"Cut it as an NFL player?!" Um, super no. I've trained with a lot of guys. One of them was a D1 college running back - 2nd string. He was an order of magnitude stronger and more powerful than anyone I've every worked with. I presume an NFL play is another order of magnitude strong than that. Professional football players are on another level than the rest of us.

[@cesaravila5577]

Well it's all specialized conditioning right? Any professional athlete will be a different cut but their "field" will require different training

[@nessuno___]

Coach, please make a similar video for the upper body. Respect from South Italy, keep it athletic

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When you're here before the post is up...

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And you still don't win the comp 😂😭

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@@kendoskeg11 true unfortunately

[@francisolsson9728]

Hands down the best video you've ever made. So cool to see how far you've come. You're philosophy and experience is incredible

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Who else thought the whole video was just gonna be them playing Madden

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Nash Gross 🙋🏼‍♂️

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You been always best coach , serious , responsible & professional

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Working out is sad for me now because my training partner isn't feeling well He's my cat

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What

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Poetic, and sexy

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@Al Dente think you

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@@billmcelgunn7819 is he alright now?

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@@fox0357 he's been with Jesus since December

[@austingowin6796]

Can you do more of these? As a personal trainer myself this helps me demonstrate the purpose of doing certain exercises.

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Who thinks lord Jeff should like comments

[@beeseumz]

Two of my favorite people! Go Pack Go!

[@ricksmith7308]

Jeff, you have the best content. You give us the tools to be the best we can be. I really like the explanation of why you should or shouldn't perform an exercise. Really good stuff mate👍🏽

[@theevilspanky]

I am getting one of these shirts! For this video alone, this guy is the real deal!

[@williampass4200]

Jeff, I really like videos like this, where you ask the question "what do you want to do with those muscles?" It's not just about pure size gains or increasing a metric, but making us better at the sports we are a part of. Thank you for advocating a more thoughtful approach to hitting the gym! I have a sport-specific request for a topic: endurance athletes. I'm primarily a cyclist, but do a few longer-distance running events too (marathon-type stuff). I'm particularly interested in trying to get stronger as a cycling sprinter so I can get better performance at criterium races in 2020. I don't want to gain too much weight, though, because every pound I gain is another pound I have to drag up a hill with me, so I fight to stay around 5'11" and 160lbs. It would be real cool if you could touch on the topic in a video sometime: explosive leg workouts tailored more for a person who keeps lean, low-weight musculature. Thanks for doing what you do! Keep up the great work!

[@here2thrive]

Greg seems like such a good listener. 16:46 - really thoughtful comment right there.

[@bilalturkan8004]

Ive never seen someone more intelligent than Jeff wow ! I learn so much from your videos its like whenever I hear your voice I'm becoming smarter and smarter

[@wallaceclan1983]

I know that feeling of fighting for ropes regarding face pulls.The gym I attend has had to order more.Long live the face pull.Absolutly love the videos that are like this where athletes are in the X Box for a workout.

[@CallumTheDon123]

One of my favourite videos from you and I’ve watched most ! More like this Jeff

[@hugeackman7524]

Just another in a very long line of excellent videos with remarkable information. Thanks Jeff!

[@artistadavide]

Excellent, clear explanation for legs/glutes training, my current weak spot.

[@kharbandaumang]

Tomorrow is my leg day and I M going for this workout... Jeff you are great.. more such videos wil be very helpful

[@danielmulero2816]

Outstanding! Any other athlete from another sports discipline would be awesome!

[@carlostapia2822]

Greg is an OG and super humble

[@ducttape89]

I am actually excited for leg day after this video! Jeff is a miracle worker

[@jafetramirez9219]

Wow a lot of amazing pointers thank you Jeff for uploading this amazing training session

[@Zetsuke4]

Waoah a 25 mins video of jeff THAT's AWESOME we can never get enough of you this is the longest upload in so long

[@jacobdrollinger4802]

All time Packers fan, right here. Born and bred in Wisconsin! I should win the contest right there! 😃

[@kcwlmt]

Great info as usual. Particularly like the elevated Bulgarian squats and the reach backs for the glutes.

[@РусиМинев-ж6б]

Loving these full workout videos. Keep them up!

[@chrismurphy7320]

Greatest video ever. Your explanation on glute activation might be the to darling gold In Tokyo for me at the Paralympic Games. Thank you, Jeff!

[@romanbenedit8190]

Great Stuff Jeff, thanks to those combination of exercises I was able resolve a 6 month IT Band issue that prohibited me from running. Hurt like crazy but it works

[@erikescamilla9985]

Love the content and these explosive 🧨 leg workouts. It does wonders for my vertical jump. Keep em coming Jeff.

[@alecrasmussen4839]

Loved this video! Thank you. Do you have a video on agility/acceleration drills both in the gym and on the field? Thanks!

[@andythousand345]

Phenomenon video Jeff. Would love to see more like it.

[@SVanDykTX]

Great video. I love it when you give us a look behind the scenes. Thank you.

[@bjorksven]

Having problems in my lower back, unilateral leg training have allowed me to still load up the legs a lot, but using a lot less weight and thus putting less force and torque on the lower back. Plus, I really got to work my lateral hip stabilization, so I will definitely keep doing it. I tend to prefer backward lunges, but Bulgarian split squats are really nice too.

[@tonylambert3012]

OUTSTANDING video, and very educational!! Thanks Jeff!!!

[@jackmarshall757]

One of your best videos. More of these please

[@c1earm1nd]

Normally im having 2 leg day/week: quads and hamstrings/glutes. Mostly strength training. So, yesterday decided to mix it up and try this workout. And it feels amazing today, muscles are sore all over and stronger than usual. Definitely something to try, guys. :) And thanks, Jeff, for sharing! :)

[@jobaci]

No accident that you're the best. Super informative twenty five minutes.

[@Ramakrishnan-qn3op]

This guy's the real deal ! Love watching your vids man!👍

[@shawnleslie6632]

Damn, Jeff is so good at his job. I am supposed to be starting my arm workout, but this is so interesting I got hooked on it. He is very good at explaining everything for us to understand why we do what we do. And Jennings is so athletic - try that jump thing, I am still on my knees.....

[@piokj1]

The legend of Greg Jennings. He always puts the team on his back

[@elmotron]

More videos with this athletic stuff. How about one for Brazilian jiu jitsu or wrestling at least. Please!!!

[@mideastbeast6668]

Thanks for another great video Jeff. I’m a basketball player and was hoping you could make a similar video for basketball. Thanks again Jeff, helpful as always !

[@TheChemist2159]

One of your best videos so far!!

[@The_Cptn_Louk]

These guys are an example of how far human body can go

[@jamalanis1978]

All this golden advices for free!!! Thanks Jeff!!!