Stanford’s strength and conditioning program is designed to develop and train players that desire to persistently work toward achieving their goals, and that believe by sincerely dedicating themselves to their preparation they will deserve to be confident and expect to be successful. The staff, led by Kissick Family Director of Football Sports Performance Shannon Turley, strives to achieve three primary goals in training: injury prevention, athletic performance enhancement and mental discipline development.

The staff conducts individualized football-specific training designed to prepare ligaments, tendons, muscles, bones and joints to function synergistically to minimize the potential risk and severity of sport related injury. The program also emphasizes position-specific training designed to improve speed, acceleration, power, agility, strength, stamina, flexibility, balance and body composition. Nutrition education to teach lifestyle management skills essential to fueling the mind and body to perform and recover in the classroom and on the field is critical to each player’s comprehensive development.

The staff also works closely with all players to teach mental discipline skills designed to direct attention to concentration on the task at hand while focusing on the process of their performance.  Stanford’s student-athletes are also trained to relax, execute with confidence, respond to any outcome with a positive attitude and trust their teammates and coaches while minimizing distractions that could be a deterrent to personal and team performance.

Cardinal football players train in a 10,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art facility located in the Arrillaga Family Sports Center. The weight room has been equipped with an impact absorbent surface. In addition, the plyometric exercise area is composed of an impact absorbent composite flooring system that measure well over an inch in thickness and is specially designed to reduce the impact imposed on the body during exercise.

Included in the football weight training facility are eight Powerlift Olympic Platforms as well as 16 Powerlift self-contained weight lifting stations, approximately 12 tons of free weights, three complete sets of dumbbells from five to 150 pounds, a complete line of Hammer Strength and selectorized machines, state-of-the-art video equipment, which includes a vast array of cardio machinery.
The facility also has a fully-equipped nutrition and supplement station, complete with everything an athlete may need to assist with recovery and carbohydrate replacement beverages along with dietary supplements.

MISSION
Utilizing challenging, pioneering methodology, within an educationally-enriched and scientific environment, our mission is to push the limits of innovation to new heights while driving progress in unchartered directions that will facilitate the ethical enhancement of athletic performance and improved quality of life for the Stanford athlete.

1. Decrease the Potential for injury
2. Improve Athletic Performance
3. Education of the Athlete
4. To create an atmosphere in which our athletes can train hard and recover well and ensure peak performance so that they may attain success within their respective sports and continue to be called “CHAMPIONS”