Andy Gibbons

Husband, Father, Son, Brother, Friend, Strength Coach, Former Head and assistant Football Coach,Football defensive consultant, Faithful, D3 sports fan

[Jon Svec @JonSvecX]

Linebackers:

Your stance sets up your first step.
Your first step sets up your angle.
Your angle sets up the tackle.

Focus on the fundamentals.

[Andy Gibbons @CoachAgibbons]

@SS_strength Also, there are just too many flamethrower on the strength social media world. What works for you and your athletes. No one knows your situation and challenges except for you.

[Andy Gibbons @CoachAgibbons]

Interesting post and extremely detailed. As a long time, but now retiring college strength coach, fan of @SS_strength, huge believer in the positives of lifetime strength and barbell training in general-the body is a total system and to me properly coached the back squat is the most important lift you can do. However, again do what works for you and your situation.

[Zac Goodman @ZacGoodman_]

If you hear “Sport Specific Training” it’s 100% a sign to run the other way.

Athletes should not view their S&C as a Player, but as an ATHLETE.

Bigger, Faster, Stronger Athletes thrive in all arenas. S&C should improve Global Force capabilities, NOT practice skills.

[Thad Wells @ThadWells]

“My goal is to work the least amount of hours in all of college football AND have that enhance results.”

Here's the full interview with Bronco Mendenhall that blew up a year ago.

It's a great time to revisit it as you prepare for 2026.

Bookmark for later.
Repost to share!
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[Brendan Cahill @brendancahill_]

Committing to play D3 isn’t “settling”, it’s a significant achievement of commitment, focus and hard work especially when 7% or less of HS players go onto college.

[Rachel Phillips @rachphillipstv]

"The weight room was my best friend."

#Jaguars head coach Liam Coen made note yesterday that Travis Hunter looked like he'd been in the weight room. Hunter said getting bigger wasn't a focus but it was a great way to stay fit and also let out some anger.

[Coach Dan Casey @CoachDanCasey]

Football is about the players.

It will always be about the players.

[Knox Prairie Fire @KnoxPrairieFire]

Check out the award winners and photos from the Prairie Fire Awards ceremony on Tuesday: https://t.co/HfMRDzkjmk

[Brendan Thompson, PT, DPT @BrendanThompsn]

Crescendo sprints —

A safe and effective way to ease into top gear without going all out throughout the duration of each rep.

It gives the athletes time to build speed on their terms and feel each gear along the way.

Highly recommend.

[Knox Prairie Fire @KnoxPrairieFire]

Congrats to Maddie! First Team All MWC!

[Knox Prairie Fire @KnoxPrairieFire]

Congrats to Lance Miller being named Midwest Conference Elite 20 at today's meet! The Elite 20 award is a prestigious honor in college track and field that recognizes the student-athlete with the highest cumulative GPA competing at the finals site of a conference championship.

[Joe Eisenmann PhD @Joe_Eisenmann]

Welcoming Jim Davis to the SXU Graduate Program in Strength & Conditioning🏋🏽‍♀️. Jim will be teaching our Leadership & Character Development course - a vital aspect of S&C beyond sets-reps-program design!

To learn more about the program - see here [https://t.co/wim22q1RrE]

[NAAC @NAACconnect]

Thrilled to announce this year's NAAC Emerging Leader Award recipients!💫

DI recipient is @DRUT11 from @EIU_Panthers.

DII recipient is Alexis Anderson from Ferrum College.

[Brendan Thompson, PT, DPT @BrendanThompsn]

A word of advice:

If you want to get faster, try doing things that require you to move fast regularly.

1) Jumping
2) Sprinting
3) Throwing
4) Lifting

[Jeremy Christensen @MinnewaskaMAD]

This is why athletes need to train like athletes.
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[Adam Breneman @AdamBreneman81]

Rhett Lashlee works as hard as anyone in the country, but he’s intentional about stepping away too.

That balance is what keeps you sharp in a profession that never turns off ⬇️

[Ben Griffin @Coachgriffin88]

All athletes should lift heavy.

Why? It’s one of the best ways to recruit high threshold motor units & train type 2 muscle fibres

Type 2 fibres are responsible for explosive actions, ie sprinting & jumping. They’re only recruited if they’re needed & they’re needed to lift heavy

[Coach Chip @ChipSeagle]

Darrell Royal, former Texas HC, on when he visited Longhorn practices during Mack Brown’s tenure as the Horns’ HC:
“The coaches are nice enough to explain to me what they're doing and what they're trying to accomplish. I see a lot of time-saving drills that have been instituted since my coaching days. And I just wondered, why didn't we think of having the drill in this manner so we could get in more repetitions? That's what practice is for, to repeat over and over situations that you're going to see in an actual game. And the more repetitions you get, the better off the drill. I never liked coaches to stop and coach players after every move they made. It takes time away from them repeating it over and over and over till it gets so they don't have to think in those situations: they just react, and react to something that they learned in a drill.”

[Zac Goodman @ZacGoodman_]

Too much variation in training disrupts adaptation.

If you want the body to respond, send it a consistent message over and over again.

For this reason, we keep many things the same in programming for weeks/months on end.