Linebacker Clay Matthews Lifts – Image from SCplaybook.com

The build up for the 2008 football season is already underway, and that means one thing: seven-year strength and conditioning coach Chris Carlisle is hard at work pushing the Trojan players to become even stronger and faster then they were before. Kevin Carden of SCplaybook took some good shots of the intense training the Trojans undergo each offseason. There’s photos of Clay Matthews, Stafon Johnson, Damian Williams and Rey Maulaluga among others.

But Pete Carroll will tell you, no one is as scary as former strength coach Chuck Berry. That’s for damn sure.