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Post by jhanawa on Jan 10, 2006 13:54:12 GMT -6
Do you encourage your players to play other sports? Linemen wrestle, play handball (a good one for lateral movement, pass pro) backs play soccer, (cutting, cardio) even though I can't stand soccer,,,,,basketball, never seen a basketball player catch the ball with his chest.....and of course QB's, on the golf course,,,,,hey, someone's gotta carry my bag...  I guess baseball and track count also but what I am talking about is sports with a combo/all of : change of direction, up tempo cardio and hand eye cordination. |
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Post by tog on Jan 10, 2006 14:01:03 GMT -6
track would be number one to me
never hurts to make them faster
used to think it was a waste of time for OL to do track, would rather have them lifting, but the feet and coordination along with lifting make it great for everyone.
I want all the kids playing and doing as much as possible, as long as they continue to lift.
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Post by coachbb on Jan 10, 2006 14:03:09 GMT -6
I know one high school that makes their players do either powerlifting or track.
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Post by coachnorm on Jan 11, 2006 7:54:52 GMT -6
Track is definitely the big one. I've seen an awful lot of great football programs built on the back of a great track program.
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Post by coachjd on Jan 11, 2006 8:13:01 GMT -6
We encourage all of our kids who are not in a position to play on the baseball, tennis and golf teams to be out for track. No matter if they are linemen, backs etc...
We will find a home for each kid. The most important thing is we do plyo's, agilities, speed work, hip mobility drills, and weightlifting 2-3 days a week, plus they have an opportunity to compete 1-2 times per week. Any time we can put our kids in a situation to compete we are happy.
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Post by Mav on Jan 11, 2006 8:26:59 GMT -6
If they're not already involved with basketball or hockey during the winter, we're big on having kids go out for wrestling. If they're not already involved with baseball or lacrosse during the spring, we promote track.
Year in and year out, the best cut blockers (backs or linemen) are wrestlers. They seem to really have the timing down of when to get low and run through.
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Post by Boltar on Jan 11, 2006 15:48:12 GMT -6
Wrestling for the Big Boys is the best thing!
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Post by bluboy on Jan 11, 2006 15:59:07 GMT -6
We have found that Lacrosse has been great for our kids, both the skill players and the wide bodies.
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Post by dgs on Jan 11, 2006 22:59:31 GMT -6
We encourage our players to participate in other sports during the offseason. As stated earlier, we like track the best for the speed work. Wrestling is good for leverage, though I hate the weight cutting aspect. Basketball is good for catching the ball and agilities. Baseball is good for ball catching. One of the other benefits of encouraging your players to do other sports is that the other coaches hopefully will persuade their players to play football.
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Post by tog on Jan 11, 2006 23:04:03 GMT -6
wrestling question here
what are the standard weight classes for it?
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Post by dgs on Jan 12, 2006 18:06:19 GMT -6
tog, I am the farthest thing from an expert but I did a search and found the following weight classes for Federation matches. Hopefully it is correct. 65,70,75,80,85,90,95,100,105,112,119,126,135,145,155,167, 185 and Heavyweight.
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Post by Mav on Jan 12, 2006 19:31:08 GMT -6
We use 103, 112, 125, 137, 152, 160, 171, 189, 215 and heavyweight -- up to 275
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Post by tog on Jan 12, 2006 20:13:15 GMT -6
can't be over 275? discrimination!
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Post by dgs on Jan 12, 2006 21:06:01 GMT -6
true dat
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Post by jimbohale on Jan 13, 2006 7:25:39 GMT -6
Do you encourage your players to play other sports? Linemen wrestle, play handball (a good one for lateral movement, pass pro) backs play soccer, (cutting, cardio) even though I can't stand soccer,,,,,basketball, never seen a basketball player catch the ball with his chest.....and of course QB's, on the golf course,,,,,hey, someone's gotta carry my bag... I guess baseball and track count also but what I am talking about is sports with a combo/all of : change of direction, up tempo cardio and hand eye cordination. I think playing multiple sports is the BEST thing that your athletes can be doing while not playing football. There are several benefits of being a multisport athlete, probably the biggest being that you can increase your overall total body coordination, which will make you a better athlete, which will increase your potential in being a better football player. I feel that ALL sports (with the exception of cross country) can benefit football players in some way, shape or form. Even golf, where hand/eye coordination and the ability to increase coordination within the kinematic chain are involved. Tennis is another good sport which will increase reactive change of direction ability, not to mention hand/eye coordination and the use of the kinematic chain. Basketball, soccer, wrestling, baseball, etc. are all great sports that will train different abilities than football will, however these abilities usually transfer over the football field well. Look at the countries best athletes...nearly all of them were all-state/all-region athletes in multiple sports in HS and many of them were multisport athletes even in college. I think basketball is one of the best sports to play in the football offseason. Just my thoughts |
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Post by ogie4 on Jan 13, 2006 7:53:35 GMT -6
can't be over 275? discrimination! Off to the showers for you with a big dip of copenhagen, a jump rope, and the rubber suit if your going to make wieght. Kind of off the subject a little, but how many of you are former wrestlers and how much weight did ya'll drop from the end of football to the end of wrestling to make a certain weight class? |
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Post by coachaaron on Jan 13, 2006 12:31:48 GMT -6
In my opion, the ultimate 3 sport athlete would be football, competitive olympic lifting, and track. That would certainly creatine a fast and explosive athlete. Of the traditional sports offered at most schools, I would say track would be the most beneficial . . . even for the big guys, the throwing events build explosiveness, quick feet, and really teaches them how to use their core muscles to generate force.
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Post by vtjapes on Jan 13, 2006 14:21:39 GMT -6
When I was in HS it was mandetory (starting my sophmore year) that you played a Spring Sport if you planned on playing Football in the Fall. Of course back then we didn't have spring FB Practice. The by product was that our Track team got really good after the first year. It wasn't a big deal for most of the skill possitions as we already played baseball or what ever. The real imporvement was for our Linemen. Worse case senerio for him was that he was at least active.
I like my Receivers to play basketball in the winter also. Boxing out, hand-eye, body control, movement of feet, and catching translate well from the court to the grass.
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I guess baseball and track count also but what I am talking about is sports with a combo/all of : change of direction, up tempo cardio and hand eye cordination.
