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PALO ALTO, Calif. ā Inside the Stanford weight room earlier this football season, there were weight vests and wooden sticks and core boards. There were kettle bells and roller pads and something called a Bod Pod, a white, egg-shaped contraption that measures body fat.
There were football players, too: pairs with legs bent, a towel held between them for balance; others climbing ropes like back in gym class; working on hip mobility and shoulder stability; the focus not on brute strength, even for a team as physical as Stanford.
And there was Shannon Turley, the architect of a training regimen among the most distinct in college sports. He is Stanfordās director of football sports performance, and for years, he felt it necessary to write letters to N.F.L. scouts to explain the Cardinalās nontraditional approach. He stopped that practice this year in the wake of Stanfordās success.
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There were football players, too: pairs with legs bent, a towel held between them for balance; others climbing ropes like back in gym class; working on hip mobility and shoulder stability; the focus not on brute strength, even for a team as physical as Stanford.
And there was Shannon Turley, the architect of a training regimen among the most distinct in college sports. He is Stanfordās director of football sports performance, and for years, he felt it necessary to write letters to N.F.L. scouts to explain the Cardinalās nontraditional approach. He stopped that practice this year in the wake of Stanfordās success.
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