SAN DIEGO – Chargers strength & conditioning coach Jeff Hurd and assistant strength & conditioning coach Vernon Stephens provide a workout tip of the week every Wednesday on Chargers.com.
The video series started May 26 with five episodes that revealed a pre-exercise routine recommended by Hurd and Stephens, including dynamic warm-ups, stretching, soft tissue release and hip mobility.
The workout tips focus on lower body strength in July. This week’s installment provides information on how to incorporate lunges into your workouts.
“Lunges put you in a position where one side is working and one side is balancing, and this is critical for when you’re on the field,” Hurd said. “So we try to break our lunges down into various angles.”
The video demonstrates a straight-ahead lunge, a lateral lunge and a diagonal lunge, working the hips and core.
Hurd and Stephens have a combined 24 years of NFL experience and helped the Bolts to three consecutive AFC West titles after joining the team in 2007.
Go here to get the latest tips from two of the NFL’s best strength and conditioning coaches each week as they demonstrate the most effective and safest muscle-building, fat-burning, body-sculpting workouts and exercises that are fun and easy to follow.
SCIFRES LAUDED: 
Scifres averaged 46.7 yards per punt for the Chargers last season, a career high. Oakland punter Shane Lechler, the only player ranked ahead of Scifres on the list, has been named All-Pro eight times and is considered by many to be the NFL’s best, including ESPN’s Bill Williamson.
Said Williamson of Scifres: “His talent is close to Lechler’s. This is the best 1-2 punter division punch in football.”
Williamson also ranks Scifres ahead of Kansas City punter Dustin Colquitt and Oakland placekicker Sebastian Janikowski, whom he praises as well.
“BIG HANDS” HONORED: Former Chargers defensive tackle Gary “Big Hands” Johnson will be posthumously inducted into the Grambling Legends Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday.
Johnson is second in Chargers history with 67.0 sacks and is a member of the team’s Hall of Fame. He recorded 17.5 sacks in 1980. He attended Grambling State University and played four years of collegiate football.
ALUMNI NEWS: Former tackle Toni Berti and his wife Nikki held their third-annual Heart n’ Sole charity event last month and raised more than $78,000 to provide socks and shoes to deserving children … Former fullback Lorenzo Neal and former Raiders standout Eric Allen hosted the fourth-annual Flavors of the Gaslamp in May at Se Hotel, raising funds to assist families dealing with cancer … Dan Fouts, Herb Travenio and John Carney were some of the former Bolts that visited long-time Chargers employee Pat Rogers-Thompson as she celebrated her 80th birthday on June 4 with a barbeque.
