Perform as many repetitions as possible of each exercise in the time allotted: Pogo jumps × 20 secs. Half-squat deep "wide-outs" × 2 sets of 5 secs. (10-sec. rest between)11 Joe kept the warm-up short and gave me time to recover. One of the oldest tricks in the training world, he explained, is to fatigue an athlete prior to their "before" testing with an extensive warm-up, then retest them later with a minimal warm-up. Voilà, instant measurable improvement. Trixy coaches. The Set-Up My times wouldn't depend on DeFranco's eyesight or judgment. We'd be using the Brower system, the same technology used at the "big show" of the Combine. My nish time would be clocked automatically when I passed between two paired laser detectors at the 40-yard line, both of which were synced to his hand-held counter. As a baseline, I ran two 10-yard dashes with no coaching: Dash #1: 2.12 secs. Dash #2: 2.07 secs.