Why Warp-Speed No-Huddle Works - dual meaning.
Gino Arcaro
Best-selling author, gym owner, football coach. Ex-police officer/detective. Ex-college law enforcement prof/coordinator
Thank you to #football coaches for your questions last week. Here’s part 1 of my answer:
Taught my football teams for 40 years:
Speed up until they throw up and give up.
That’s one of the top 26 objectives of our SWAT no-huddle offense. Force them to work more than ever before.
Force them to workout harder than they ever have.
More work scares 98.6% of your opponents.
Double the number of conventional plays and they won’t play hard or work hard. The more you speed up, the more they give up.
Football is the slowest game in the world.
Football #Gameday requires the least amount of work.
4 seconds of play, 40 seconds of rest.
4 more seconds of play, 40 more seconds of rest.
Conventional #Gameday operates on the 10-90 work-rest ratio - 10% work, 90% rest.
That conventional #Gameday ratio extends to conventional workouts and conventional practices. 10% work- 90% rest.
Change that ratio and your opponent breaks. Opponents of no-huddle, on and off the field, hate no-huddle because of fear. The reasons opponents complain about high-speed no-huddle are:
Fear of more work.
Fear you haven’t worked hard enough.
Fear of harder workouts.
Fear you have not worked out hard enough.
Opponents of no-huddle, on and off the field fear change to their conventional game all because of fear of exertion. Imagine an MMA fight where they fought for only 4 seconds followed by 40 seconds rest, every round. Imagine real-life frontline work where they only work for 4 seconds and take a 40 second break.
Football is stuck in the worst complacency imaginable. Take 40 seconds to call a play, take 4 seconds to run a play. Take another 40 second break. Disrupt that complacency by forcing the opponent to work faster, work harder, work longer, and they break. They complain more instead of train more.
Blessings and all good things
Gino Arcaro