At some point, we’ll all fail.

Maybe it’s a failure in your football training program Maybe it’s on the field. It might even be in the classroom. But, rest assured, no matter how long things have been going well, at some point they will go wrong. If you do not develop the ability to deal with this, you’ll never reach your potential.

If you watch NFL games, you’ve probably heard a million times that a Cornerback’s best asset is a short memory. Not speed or jumping ability. A short memory. Why? Well, everyone, even the Champ Baley’s and the Deon Sanders’ get beat. If they then spend the next 5 plays thinking over what happened, they’ll get beat again.

The same is true for Lineman, linebackers, RB’s, QB’s…everyone is succeptible. We’ll all get beat for a sack, or fumble, or throw a pick. If it can happen to guys named Tom Brady and Emmit Smith, it can happen to you.

When it comes to football training, the same is true. See, in the beginning, progress comes fast and furious (no, not the horrible movie). What is happening is that your brain is becoming better at telling your muscles what to do. This is good, and, it’s necessary. But, at some point the simple act of adding 5lbs every workout will stop.

And, good news: the faster you progress, the faster you’ll hit a wall.

This is exactly where most guys quit:

• When they start to hit walls in their football training program, or
• When things get tough on the field.

One of the reasons Explosive Football Trainingis so effective is that it works on a system of constant progress and the breaking of Personal Records (PRs). We are always striving to improve. Another lb, another rep, doing more work in less time – all are indicators of progress in our football training program.

However, once you pass the beginner stage, you start to hit walls.

What do you do? Are you tough enough to keep your head down and blast through plateaus? Or, will you quit like most people?

Let’s look at a guy who’s Deadlift is tanking and he’s getting beat to the outside on pass blocks.

He can make two choices:

1. Get frustrated and make more mistakes, eventually quitting
2. He can get help, work hard, and not stop working hard until he beaks down the wall

You and I both know that most choose number 1. Guys hit a snag in their football training program and they panic. They start jumping from program to program, hoping the answer is in some horrible bodybuilding magazine, when really, the answer is to continue to work.

Face it; the first time you put on the pads you knew this game was not easy. The first time you Squatted a max weight, that feeling in your stomach and chest let you know that training for this game won’t be easy.

But, if you’re reading this site, you’re different. You won’t take failure lightly. You’ll realize that it is bound to happen, but you’ll get off your ass and do something about it!

In part 2, I’ll give you some specific methods to break through training barriers and how to get over mistakes on the field as well.