New Strength Coach making some noise....

[sarge87]

Wait..."hanging snatch"...wasn't that the picture of britney spears that was floatin' 'round the internet about a year ago?

No, I believe they replaced the word "hanging" and inserted the word "nasty" in that picture.

[skersOVRsc]

 

 

I think the weight goes behind your head (resting on your shoulders like for a squat) for a good morning.

 

With a hang snatch you start with the weight hanging like you would for a hang clean (arm length, probably at the top of your thighs) and in a single, jump-like move you power the weight up above your head... well, you jump up, and then drop your body below the weight and get the bar above your head and then return to a standing position while holding the weight.

 

Snatches are really not easy at all.

 

I think what you're describing is sort of like a power shrug.

 

A Power Shrug is exactly what he described.....good call! I was tryin to think of it and it was buggin me...

 

Thank you guys, i was sitting here reading this and thinking,"am i the only person in Nebraska/Iowa to know what a hang snatch is?"

 

good call guys.

No $hit.

[pctopeka]

All of the sarcastic crap aside from you guys, I am tickled to see this. These are explosive power moves, the kind needed to drive some prick from KU or MU to the ground. Something that has been lacking the last couple of years.

 

If you need to know what a hang snatch is, watch the snatch in olympic weightlifting. A hang snatch starts from with the weight hanging at arm's length, rather than on the floor. Good mornings are performed with the weight on the shoulders, with the athlete "bowing" with a straight back. Properly performed, it works the butt, hamstrings and hips.

[Hskr86]

All of the sarcastic crap aside from you guys, I am tickled to see this. These are explosive power moves, the kind needed to drive some prick from KU or MU to the ground. Something that has been lacking the last couple of years.

 

Rob Zateska, during his TV show in Omaha, mentioned on several occasions this past season, how the S&C was all screwed up under Kennedy.

[HuskerHank]

Under Kennedy, but overseen by Callahan. Kennedy did as he was told.Callahan micromanaged everything else, I have no reason to believe that he had a hand in the S&C as well.

[Igetbored216]

All snatch jokes aside, it's refreshing to see a turn around in winter conditioning. Hopefully the winter and spring is enough time for these players to increase their strength and speed for September.

[Huskerballz]

I think we'll all be pleasantly surprised with the added "kick" in these players steps that we'll be seeing.

[Husker_Power]

per ljs

 

He's only been on the job a few weeks now, but already players have figured out that standing idle in the weight room is a thing of the past.

 

"It's nonstop for an hour and a half," says Husker senior quarterback Joe Ganz.

 

"It's night and day," says senior defensive end Zach Potter, comparing last year's workouts to this year's.

 

It's winter conditioning under James Dobson, the Nebraska football team's new strength and conditioning coach.

 

"Intense," says Ganz.

 

"Intense," says Potter.

 

He might have you in and out of the weight room in 90 minutes. But while you're there, don't plan on a lot of small talk.

 

The two players say workouts are more up-tempo than they were under Dave Kennedy, who led Nebraska football's strength and conditioning program for the four years Bill Callahan was head coach.

 

Oh, don't get it wrong. Workouts with Kennedy challenged the body and mind, too. Kennedy is a veteran in the field and is well-respected. Texas A&M hired him right after he left Nebraska. Potter still calls him "Coach K."

 

But players say it's quite evident that Dobson's conditioning methods are different than Kennedy's.

 

"I think Coach Dobson's workouts are a lot more intense," Potter says. "You get in, you get out. We do our work quickly. But we do it with a lot of intensity. You're working hard in a short amount of time. Under Coach K, we'd take our time between lifts. Some people like that. Some people like it with Coach Dobson. He always wants you moving."

 

Ganz says the running drills this year are similar to what the team did under Kennedy, but this year the team does a lot more flexibility work, "plyometrics stuff."

 

Potter says the 34-year-old Dobson can be fiery, but also is able to joke around with the guys when the hard work's over.

 

"He's young enough to know and understand what's going on in our lives," Potter says.

 

Adds Ganz: "It's the best of both worlds. He's not someone you're scared to talk to, but then again, he's kind of a hard-nosed guy. He wants you to do your work and he wants to get everything done."

 

Dobson says one of the biggest parts of the job is building relationships with the players.

 

"When you can relate to people, you're going to get more from them when you ask them," says Dobson, previously an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Iowa.

 

Aside from the administrative responsibilities, Dobson says his new role isn't much different than working as an assistant.

 

"Coaching players is coaching players, whether you're supposedly the head guy or you're the head assistant or the third assistant, whatever it is," he says.

 

Still, there is some major responsibility to being the "head guy."

 

With coaches busy trying to fill out a recruiting class, Dobson is the face players see probably more than anyone on staff right now.

 

It's the face Potter sees at 6 a.m. every Monday and Thursday, the days Potter's position unit does its running drills.

 

Sprints before breakfast are hardly an enjoyable thing, but every workout comes with knowing it might pay dividends some Saturday in October.

 

Last year, the defensive line got pushed around during a 5-7 season. Nebraska finished 116th in the country in rushing defense.

 

Potter knows that isn't how it goes around here. This year has to be different.

 

"It's everything. It's my senior year," he says. "I think it's going to be my best year."

 

Dobson isn't interested in talking about last year. He was hired by Husker head coach Bo Pelini to help this team move forward. You could surely knock out a few sets in the time it takes to talk about 2007, after all.

 

"I think preparation is the key to success: bottom line," Dobson says. "I just look at every week as the ability to get better, the ability to prepare ourselves as football players."

 

Given how last season went, Ganz says motivation has not been hard to find, even with the season seven months away.

 

"Guys were embarrassed," Ganz says. "No one was more embarrassed than we were. We're ready to get that taste out of our mouths. But it's a long, hard process. It's going to take time. But we've got the time to do it, the time to work hard, and that's what we're going to do."

[T_O_Bull]

I hope the "D-Man" cracks the whip on them real good. The coaches I remember best were the tough ones who demanded that we do our best and pushed us relentlessly toward it. I got real tired of seeing our QB get sacked or knocked down while most of the O-Line was still standing with their 'flabby tummies' hanging over the top of their pants. Push them hard Dobs they'll love you for it.

GBR

>>>T_O_B