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Post by Wingtman on May 25, 2010 7:31:10 GMT -6
First night of summer weight room last night. 52 kids showed up, which is great. Worked really hard. Now I know the key is keeping that many there (we are only doing OTA's 2 nights a week) but man Im pumped!
Anyone else started yet? What do your numbers look like? Also had our first puker.....Summer may be all about bbq, baseball and beach bunnies, but summer football workouts get me just as pumped!
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Post by coachwoodall on May 25, 2010 8:53:10 GMT -6
Just finished spring ball last night with our 'bowl' game. Monday will be the first day of summer lifting. We started counting work outs (for whether or not they get jerseys) back in March.
Our 8AM group is our 1's, the group we are counting on to win next year, it will run around 32 kids. This obviously is a select group with a very high volume. This group will hit it for 2 solid hours.
Our 10AM group is our developmental players, back ups/JVs, kids we will need down the road to help us win. It is limited to 48.
Our 6PM group is our freshman team and any others. Sky's the limit here. This is where we hook 'em. They started back in middle school learning the basics of the lifts and this past spring we started getting them ready to hit the heavy weight. We have a couple of local lift meets that cater to the middle school/JV ages, so they have started to see the success they can have with our regimen. By the time they hit the field this fall, the freshmen will be strutting around school in tight t shirts, flexing their guns for the ladies.
Yeah, I love summer in the weight room too. We lift MWF and each coach has to cover 8 sessions (AM or PM), but I find myself up there much more than that.
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Post by Wingtman on May 25, 2010 8:55:52 GMT -6
We are all assigned a day too, but last night all 5 of us were there and it really felt like we sent a message saying it was important to us as well. We are going to try to have a minimum 2 coaches a night if not all of us there.
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Post by realdawg on May 25, 2010 9:00:22 GMT -6
We havent started yet. School doesnt get out in here till June 9
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Post by jgordon1 on May 25, 2010 9:16:01 GMT -6
We havent started yet. School doesnt get out in here till June 9 we getout June 18 and others get out later in VA |
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Post by ironhorse8 on Jun 1, 2010 11:16:54 GMT -6
We started today had over 100 for our first day, with 40 freshmen at a different time. We are a 5A school in Louisiana. Pretty good day.
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Post by lochness on Jun 1, 2010 11:35:26 GMT -6
We're a smaller school, with about 40 kids on our Soph-Senior roster. We've averaged between 25 and 30 kids every session in the weight room since January. Those kids we are missing are mainly in other HS sports (baseball and lacrosse right now). Even those guys come in for the last 45 minutes on days they don't have an away game and get their core stuff in. Our testing last month shows us to be the strongest team in recent history (6 years)...and we're just starting to put in our speed and agility program this week.
We have QB's, receivers, and DB's going out after weights and throwing routes and doing stuff on their own as well.
We have 30 kids signed up to go to a local NFL Player Development camp next week (Soph-Senior only). Most of our staff is going to be coaching at that camp.
I think we're doing very well...and I'm totally psyched.
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 1, 2010 13:04:17 GMT -6
Yesterday was the 1st day of summer for the kids and we had decent turn out considering it was a holiday. 8AM group had a great work out and got 32 sets in during an 2 hour lift, not counting any 'extra' work they do on the side. We have some new stuff we are incorporating into the work out I am looking forward to seeing it pay off.
This morning we had our 1st 7-7 and had great turn out of 75+.
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Post by coachguy83 on Jun 1, 2010 13:55:08 GMT -6
We get of school on Friday so we start our summer workouts next week. Our first parents meeting is tomorrow night and our 8th graders graduate on Thursday. I coached the 7th and 8th grade youth team last season and will be working with the frosh team this year so I'm extremely excited to get things started.
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Post by groundchuck on Jun 1, 2010 14:02:28 GMT -6
Summer wt rooom will start Monday. I am jacked up.
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Post by arbond on Jun 1, 2010 15:40:26 GMT -6
We dont have graduation till June 25th. But, lacross and baseball are done, so, it's football time. Gettting a 7 on 7 team organized for June 19th.
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 2, 2010 8:05:56 GMT -6
Wow. Just check the board in the wt room this moring for the A group, 38 sets to get done in 2 hours. Full house too.
REALLY excited about this group.
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Post by blb on Jun 2, 2010 8:23:12 GMT -6
Wow. Just check the board in the wt room this moring for the A group, 38 sets to get done in 2 hours. Full house too. REALLY excited about this group. Long time to be in weight room, lotta sets. You're a better man than I, cw. |
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 2, 2010 9:27:37 GMT -6
We are blessed with a great S&S guy who lives in the weight room. He does a tremendous job and our kids buy in. That morning group is all upper classmen that will start, with just a couple of select 'invitees' to see if they can hang. Our S&S does a college volume workout and it is all by the whistle, so there is little standing around. Our later group is our developmental group that will do a lower volume.
To brag on our S&S guy, he literally knows everybody in the business. He is pushing 70, but you would think he hasn't broke 50 yet. The stuff he does is at the apex of what the colleges and pros are doing. He is the kind of guy Crowther will just give equipment to so he can try out. If a kid comes in as a freshman as buys in for 4 years, there is no reason he can't be successful.
Very seldom do i walk out of the weight room and not learn something new. Not only that, he is one of the biggest reason we kids in school at the next level.
He is worth twice what we pay him and he doesn't make chump change.
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Post by larrymoe on Jun 2, 2010 10:52:46 GMT -6
Wow. Just check the board in the wt room this moring for the A group, 38 sets to get done in 2 hours. Full house too. REALLY excited about this group. That's insane. We'll probably do 9 sets tonight before doing some conditioning. 3 sets of 5 on squats, 3 sets of 5 on Bench and 2-3 sets of Dead Lift. That's it. |
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Post by larrymoe on Jun 2, 2010 10:53:07 GMT -6
We dont have graduation till June 25th. But, lacross and baseball are done, so, it's football time. Gettting a 7 on 7 team organized for June 19th. Why so late? |
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 2, 2010 11:09:16 GMT -6
That's insane. We'll probably do 9 sets tonight before doing some conditioning. 3 sets of 5 on squats, 3 sets of 5 on Bench and 2-3 sets of Dead Lift. That's it. We don't do any speed work on lifting days. Again that is our core group, these kids have been in the program since 8th grade learning the basics/technique. Those 32+ sets are including supplementals, not just core lifts. |
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Post by blb on Jun 3, 2010 6:16:09 GMT -6
Wouldn't say it's "insane", sounds like it works for cw.
Just my thing is I want to build as much strength in the safest way and shortest amount of time in weight room as possible.
So depending on numbers we will lift between 30-60 minutes (we do conditioning same days, workouts are M-W-F).
A S&C coach at a Big Ten school who I think is really good told me when doing a total body workout for HS kids you should aim for between 12-16 sets. They do around 22 with their D-I athletes.
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 3, 2010 7:24:34 GMT -6
I don't know all the specifics behind they stuff we do, I just trust what our S&S has us doing. I follow the words he gives the kids when they first start with us, "Don't think. Just follow the program and you will get stronger".
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Post by kylem56 on Jun 4, 2010 21:53:03 GMT -6
First day of lifting today, had 25 of the 35 signed up in the weight room. Not bad considering we were 2-8 last season. Most of the ones missing were incoming freshman. The only real issue was our returning starting QB and one of our halfbacks not showing up. The boys in the weight room told us they were considering not playing since we were switching from the spread to the T. Some kids attitudes just amaze me. I guess all you can do is be concerned with who is there and not who isn't there.
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Post by williamp on Jun 5, 2010 9:46:23 GMT -6
We just finished our 1st week of summer workouts, we lift Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, we go from 7 am to 9:30, this years group has a good attitude, gonna be a fun summer
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 16, 2010 8:26:47 GMT -6
For the 1st couple of weeks, we have been averaging just under 80 for our morning work outs (var/jv) and just under 50 for our C team (frosh).
We still have a couple of kids that we are having issues with (isn't everbody?) but mostly it is getting the right kids lifting at the correct times b/c of what we do lifting wise with each group. It doesn't do my starter any good to lift with the developmental group simply b/c he needs to be doing what all the other starters are doing.
BUT all in all, I am very excited about what these kids are doing and their commitment to our summer program.
As a side bar, we have a new BB coach and he is trying to change the culture of that program. We are very happy to help be a part of getting the BB program back to competing at a high level. That being said, our 2 sport kids have been doing a great job of balancing out the requirements expected of them by both programs. Yesterday we had to go out for 7-7 with basically no starting offense b/c the BB team had a summer tourny. But, none of these kids are the ones lifting with the wrong groups or missing lifts.
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Post by champ93 on Jun 16, 2010 10:01:12 GMT -6
Had about 85 ave. for our first 2 mornings, grades 9-12.
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Post by JVD on Jun 16, 2010 11:17:41 GMT -6
We got out of school on May 28...took one week off...then started lifting on Tuesdays and Thursdays. First day we had 12....been averageing about 10 Kids (freshmen thru Senior). (Looking at probebly 18 on Varsity).
We are still competing with baseball and work.
The kids who are dedicated are REALLY dedicated. The others....hard to get them to show up.
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Post by hsrose on Jun 16, 2010 11:48:08 GMT -6
We've done 2 sessions so far and getting 55 or so, 10-12. Frosh are separate. Warmups, 15m of agility (dots, boxes), 90 min of weights, 20 min of running, 30 min of off/def.
What are your objectives for summer workouts? Maintain? Get stronger? How about conditioning? Any speed work? What do you do and why? Are your workouts done because it is a "tradition" or do you have a plan for what you want the players to accomplish?
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Post by coachguy83 on Jun 16, 2010 16:31:04 GMT -6
We are in our second week of lifting now and are pretty happy with the numbers. We've been averaging around 40 boys a day and about 20 girls. The thing that makes me the happiest is we are seeing around 20 freshmen in the weight room every day. They seem like they are going to be a hardworking group that also has a little athletic ability. We are struggling to get some guys we thought were going to be key for us into the weight room, but they are just moving farther down the depth chart.
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Post by mariner42 on Jun 16, 2010 17:43:13 GMT -6
We've consistently had 40+ freshman, 25-30 sophomores, and ~25 upperclassmen with several coming back from vacations/etc. Really excited about some of the bodies/frames on some of our freshmen.
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