Might want to rethink all that Music,!

I wouldn't completely dismiss the research, but I do believe this might be a bit over the top. Plus it certainly isn't helping their recruiting by telling 18 year old recruits to take the music out of their life. Music is so important to life. Curious to see how this works out for UK.

When we lifted in college (79-83) we listened to music every day, same 8 track over and over and it became like waterboarding! It included such 60s hits as teeny weeny, yellow polka dot bikini and alley oop! We all still know the words to Runaround Sue!!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

Chip Kelly has music blaring at his practices. Not that one guy's method is right, but I think this article is a little BS.

to limit the "level of arousal" of players might add to the thinking behind playing music in practices, like kelly does. kelly wants his players to not be infected by noise and the chaos of the surrounding and thus practices it to stay calm and under control under the same circumstances.

the same might be true with excitement. you dont want your players to be so excited, that they lose focus. of course, motivation is important, but to limit excitement in your everyday life to boost it in a game might lead to lose control in those games.

that said, i like playing music at practice and in the weightroom to motivate them for this time. most players are motivated enough, when its gametime. not as much, when they have to practice or workout. thats why, i think, more excitement in practice leads to more results and thus i accept a little less excitement in the game. this of course exemplifies my view, that games are won in practice.

I watched Korem's 13 minute explanation, but this is the same thing we've known about since Boyd Epley in the 90s (periodization, nutrition, muscle system training, recovery). Korem reminds me of a guy who has a lot of time on his hands and is looking to quantify common knowledge with all types of (unnecessary) metrics. Must be nice to hook up every player up to an EKG and compile vitals for a few practices....

The removal of music...sure, you can pump yourself up without music....but this is 1% of actual impact. As a HS coach, I would think I'm trying to squeeze every bit of effort out of all our kids in the 28 months I get to train, because most aren't elite athletes.

I think a viable option would be to increase the number of mean, stray dogs near your feeder programs to develop explosive muscle fiber in adolescents that will be growing up in your program.