Off-season strength program

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Here is Rogo's Bio from www.azcardinals.com

Bob Rogucki (row-GUS-key) begins his 12th year as the Cardinals' strength and conditioning coach, a span that covers the tenures of four head coaches (Joe Bugel, Buddy Ryan, Vince Tobin, and now Dave McGinnis).

Since joining the Cardinals, Rogucki has developed the weight room at the team's training facility that includes a wide range of equipment from bars and dumbbells to machines while implementing a strength and conditioning program that trains the total body. Rogucki's philosophy is to gear a training regimen specific to the game of football involving training in a high-intensity mode that builds both muscular strength and endurance. The philosophy involves five body parts primary to the sport—neck, hips, legs, midsection, and torso—and focuses on developing the overall fitness of the athlete, including flexibility, cardio-respiratory fitness, muscular strength and endurance, recovery, and nutrition.

Rogucki served as the strength and conditioning coach at West Point from 1983-89 after similar posts at Weber State (1982) and as an assistant at Penn State (1981).

Rogucki also worked as an assistant for the Washington Redskins during their summer training camps at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania for seven years.

The Rosemont, West Virginia native, born September 27, 1953, was an offensive lineman and linebacker as a high school and college football player. He graduated from Glenville State College in his home state in 1975 before coaching football, basketball, and baseball on the high school level in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia prior to accepting his first college coaching position at Penn State in 1981.

The author of several articles on strength and conditioning and a frequent speaker at clinics and public engagements, Rogucki holds a bachelor's degree in health, physical education, and safety from Glenville State College.

He and his wife, Mary, have two children, son Charlie, and daughter Katie. Charlie is a quarterback at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, where his position coach as a freshman was former Cardinal quarterback Timm Rosenbach.

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Rogucki in his office:


Wow, this was my 800th post!


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Damn it!
Is the weather ever bad out there..... every picture I see, it's sunny and somebody is in shorts!????????
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Originally posted by AZ1766
Damn it!
Is the weather ever bad out there..... every picture I see, it's sunny and somebody is in shorts!????????
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I think we had a cloud last Saturday.
 

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Originally posted by Jim Omohundro


I had the opportunity to train with Bob Rogucki throughout my high school and college baseball days. It is a deliberate system that is customized for the particular athlete.

Basically, Captian Bob's system involves lifting a determined weight to complete exhaustion within 12-15 reps. During the first four reps, he would have me do a four-count up and a four-count down. At the fifth rep through the finish, you would powerfully thrust the weight up but maintain the four count down. Affter the set, Bob and I would determine whether to increase the weight by 3, 5, or 7 lbs depending on how the set went.

I saw tremendous gains in strength and endurance while in the program. I was a catcher and I had not one injury in my high school and college career. When I lifted with Bob, I got much stronger, and actually improved my flexibilty at the same time.

Thanks for all the info, Jim. I kind of figured we were only getting a small glimpse of the whole program from Emmitt's quote in the article.
 

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Originally posted by jmr667
Thanks for all the info, Jim. I kind of figured we were only getting a small glimpse of the whole program from Emmitt's quote in the article.

No problem.

Another thing about the program. I would stuggle to get my shirt off afterwards because I would be so fatigued. When I would go to drink my water, I looked like I was going through crack withdrawls when I raised the bottle because I was shaking so much. When I would go to put the key in the car, it would take extra effort to stop the shaking and quivering.

Bob gets every ounce out of you. When you feel like you are done at 11 reps, he says "four more" and for some reason he gets you to finish those reps that you never thought that you would get.
 

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Originally posted by Jim Omohundro
No problem.

Another thing about the program. I would stuggle to get my shirt off afterwards because I would be so fatigued.

I thought you were going to say becuase your muscles were so big - :)

He really sounds like he knows what he is doing.
 

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Originally posted by jkf296
I thought you were going to say becuase your muscles were so big - :)

Well, that is implied of course. When I wear a long sleeve shirt, I am always in danger of being arrested for carrying concealed weapons.

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