Dr. Squat - Dr. Fred Hatfield

Squats, cleans and rack jerks are mainstay exercises for all athletes. But for most, there is a point at which the benefits derived from performing regular, straight up-and-down movements must end. At some point prior to your first game, more specificity of movement in your speed and explosiveness training is called for.

To illustrate, let’s talk football for a moment. Coming off the ball with a tremendous follow-up jam to the man in front of you is quite another. It calls for a highly specific movement pattern that is totally explosive and well-timed in order to maximize the sum of the forces from both your leg drive and your arm drive. Now, for years the method of choice among strength coaches interested in developing this kind of "summed-force" ability has been a combination of squats, cleans and push jerks. That’s appropriate.

However, there is a more efficient way, and technology has provided the answer. There are all manner of crammers, bammers and --- umm -- "jammers" on the market right now that presume to do these things for you. They don’t even come close. Look at them again, and you will see that

• NONE uses differential resistance for your leg drive and the follow-up arm movement in such a way that there is a summation of ALL your forward-directed forces.
• NONE compensates for the huge ballistic force that you will encounter at the end of the movement that results from the inertia of a heavy swinging pendulum.
• And NONE is designed to simulate the actual direction of the explosive movement coming off the ball. SportStrength’s Power Maker does.

First, we have provided separate resistance sources for legs and arms because, well, your legs are MUCH stronger than your arms! Simple as that. Second, through the use of well known engineering principles, we’ve successfully "dampened" the end of both the leg drive and the arm drive to reduce the end-point inertia, and therefore the chances of ballistic stress causing unnecessary injury. All while simulating the actual movement off the ball by down linemen.

Impressive? Indeed! Care in design specificity, safety and training savvy from many years spent in "the trench." That is what SportStrength is all about.

Allow your athletes to avail themselves of this unique technology.