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Watch as Notre Dame football players rejoin strength coach

Brick by brick baby

Now that we are approaching the season, Notre Dame football players are back in action.

They aren’t able to work on the field, but they are able workout with strength and conditioning coach [autotag]Loren Landow[/autotag]. Remember, this is the first time that the Irish players will be working with him ahead of a season, as he was hired in December to take over for Matt Balis who resigned.

This is the time where players are doing much more football specific lifting, along with working on injury prevention. Strength and conditioning coaches don’t get the credit they deserve, as they typically take a back seat to the coaching staff.

That shouldn’t discredit the impact that Landow will have with the Irish this fall after working previously with the Denver Broncos.

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Watch: Notre Dame’s new strength coach Loren Landow working with the team

The Irish are working hard under their new strength coaches supervision

In his short tenure, Notre Dame head coach [autotag]Marcus Freeman[/autotag] has done a great job of replacing coaching talent.

When Matt Balis announced his resignation in July, Fred Hale took over. Freeman wanted to inject his own choice, even though Hale was already a member of his staff. In came Loren Landow, who has worked as a strength and conditioning coach for over two decades.

His NFL experience with the Denver Broncos surely was attractive for Freeman, as he was named the Irish’s newest director of football performance this past December. Landow went right to work as soon as he could, as we can all see here from a clip shared via Notre Dame’s social media account.

We won’t really know the impact Landow will have on the program until the fall, but expectations are mile high.

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Notre Dame officially names Loren Landow as new director of football performance

What a hire for the Irish!

We all knew this move was coming, but Notre Dame has made it official, [autotag]Loren Landow[/autotag] is the new Trematerra Family Director of Football Performance.

The position has been empty since before the 2023 season started, as Matt Balis resigned due to personal reasons. The Irish relied on Fred Hale during the season, but now Landow will take over the role.

The resume for Notre Dame’s new strength and conditioning coach is impressive, having worked with multiple Olympians, over 70 NFL All-Pros which include Christian McCaffrey, and Peyton Manning. He was working with the Denver Broncos prior to taking the job in South Bend, and he is expected to take the Irish to the next level.

The position isn’t a small one, due to rules at the collegiate level, the actual football coaches can’t meet with players all offseason, but the strength coach can. It will be interesting to see which players make the jump following Landow’s direction.

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Notre Dame football: Irish zeroing in on new strength coach

According to reports, Notre Dame football is close to hiring a new strength and conditioning coach. Details on the impressive candidate:

Just before fall camp started this past season, Notre Dame football was stunned by the sudden resignation of [autotag]Matt Balis[/autotag], their strength and conditioning coach.  Balis was very highly regarded and was a big reason for Notre Dame turning things around since the year he arrived in South Bend, 2017.

The position was filled on an interim basis for this season but it looks like Notre Dame is close to making a new hire and its one that comes with decades of big-time experience.

According to Football Scoop, former Denver Broncos strength coach Loren Landow is in negotiations to join the Notre Dame staff.

Landow has trained some of the biggest-named Broncos in recent years including Von Miller and Peyton Manning.  He’s also trained several Olympic athletes.

According to the Football Scoop report:

Multiple sources told FootballScoop that Freeman & Co. talked about the Notre Dame position with, among others, Aaron Wellman, most recently at Indiana University but who also has helmed the programs at Michigan and for the NFL’s New York Giants; additionally, sources told FootballScoop within the past week to 10 days that Notre Dame engaged discussions with Alabama strength coach David Ballou.

I won’t pretend to know who’s a great strength and conditioning coach and who isn’t.  I am just pleased to see that Marcus Freeman and company seemingly went everywhere to try and bring in the actual best candidate – unlike how the offensive coordinator role went down last off-season.

Report: Loren Landow won’t return as Broncos’ strength and conditioning coach

Loren Landow will not return as the Broncos’ strength and conditioning coach under Sean Payton.

The changes continue at Dove Valley.

On the same day that news broke that the Denver Broncos are allowing defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero out of his contract, there’s also word that head strength and conditioning coach Loren Landow won’t return in 2023.

Landow has told several players that he is “moving on” from the team, according to a report from KUSA-TV’s Mike Klis. Landow joined the club in 2018 and held the head S&C coach position for the past five seasons. He also still owns and serves as the director of his own training center, Landow Performance, in Centennial.

One of Landow’s assistant strength coaches, Pierre Ngo, has already left the team to join the Chicago Bears. The Broncos have also lost running backs coach Tyrone Wheatley (who left to become the head coach at Wayne State University), and Denver has allowed offensive coordinator Justin Outten and quarterbacks coach Klint Kubiak to interview with other teams this offseason.

After firing former head coach Nathaniel Hackett in December, the team named Jerry Rosburg the interim head coach, and he promptly fired special teams coordinator Dwayne Stukes and offensive line coach Butch Barry. Rosburg himself had his contract end a few weeks ago.

Following the arrival of new head coach Sean Payton, we have been tracking all of the changes to Denver’s coaching staff on this page.

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Broncos QB Drew Lock is training in Denver area

Broncos quarterback Drew Lock has been training in the Denver area.

Broncos quarterback Drew Lock is back in the Denver area and he recently got together with teammates for some passing sessions with a few wide receivers. As The Athletic‘s Nicki Jhabvala pointed out on Twitter, it appears that Lock is also doing some conditioning training.

Lock is training with Augustine Agyei and Nate Smock, who both work for Landow Performance, which is owned by Broncos head strength and conditioning coach Loren Landow.

Judging from the photo Agyei posted on Instagram, it appears that Lock is practicing social distancing even while training. Lock was also careful to follow social guidelines while throwing with teammates in the Denver area.

After going 4-1 as a starter last season, Lock will try to help the Broncos reach the playoffs in 2020, something the team hasn’t done since 2015.

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