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Post by blockdownkickout on Sept 26, 2014 7:26:53 GMT -6
Looking for some advice coaches. This is my first year as a head coach but I've been at the school as an assistant for a while. Our pre game warm up schedule has always been about an hour. We go 20 minutes of specials, 20 minutes of offensive skill (we stretch and then throw routes on air), then we go back in the locker room, come out for 20 minutes (team stretch, indy defense, team offense). I've never really questioned the schedule until last week. Because of weather we cut the time down a lot. And then we played very well. My question is how much warm up time is too much? Should we be looking for a short warm up and conserve energy? What is you all's philosophy on that?
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Post by indian1 on Sept 26, 2014 7:33:26 GMT -6
Ours takes about 40 minutes
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Post by coachrdc on Sept 26, 2014 7:40:15 GMT -6
As long as it is scheduled and becomes a routine for the kids, it doesn't really matter. We don't have a schedule set in stone, but it generally goes like this; our skill kids take their pads out to the field and do their thing (snap, kick, punt, throw routes, etc.), I ask our HC, "when do you want the big boys out?" He give me a time, I bring them out (padded up), they wait for the skills to get padded up, do our normal stretch routine, get a break, do some indy d, team of some kind (it changes based on the week, sometimes one or the other, sometimes both), head in, come out, play ball. At a past stop, I would type up a schedule with times that certain groups were to go out, who were in those groups, when we went to the locker room, etc. and that worked too. But again, in each case the kids know what is going on and know when to "flip the switch."
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Post by coachorm on Sept 26, 2014 7:50:14 GMT -6
About 40 Minutes
7:30 Game
6:30 Punters/Kicker/Holder/Returners go out. 6:40 Rest of the team comes out. Team does Dynamic Warm-ups then a small amount of static stretching. 6:50 Defense Indy 6:55 Offense Indy 7:00 Team D 7:03 Team O 7:08 Team Tackle/Towel Fight 7:10 Inside until we take field at 7:25 for coin toss.
It's quick and fast. Just lets them get the blood flowing a little and pop the pads a tad. Like others said the main thing is they can get use to it and it becomes a routine they don't have to think about just do.
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Post by gibbs72 on Sept 26, 2014 8:15:53 GMT -6
We go about 40 minutes also.
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Post by joelee on Sept 26, 2014 9:44:04 GMT -6
Our state association only allows you to go on the field 45 minutes before kickoff in the state finals so we do 45 minutes all year.
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Post by jg78 on Sept 26, 2014 10:42:09 GMT -6
I have never understood long warmups. Stretch it out a little bit, throw it and kick it a time or two, and then play ball. If you don't warmup for 40+ minutes before getting after it in practice, why would you do it for a game?
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zeroand24
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Post by zeroand24 on Sept 26, 2014 10:49:39 GMT -6
I've been trying to get our head coach to do a funnel drill with the whole team as the pregame. A coach in California has had success with this at several different schools. They do a RB+FB+OL vs DB+LB+DL as their entire pregame after team stretch. Only 5 yds of space and controlled, no ones trying to kill each other, but high tempo and excitement. I'm pretty sure they do this as close to game time as possible. I also worked for a complete lunatic that did bull in the ring with the entire team as pregame. the opposing team just stopped what they were doing and watched us. We won but not to sure about the pregame being the acredited factor in the victory.
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Post by silkyice on Sept 26, 2014 11:06:13 GMT -6
6:10 ST check & prayer 6:13 To Field 6:16 Warmup 6:18 Specialty 6:23 Pass Group 6:28 Group D 6:31 Team D 6:36 Team O 6:40 Inside 6:50 Talk 6:53 To Field 7:00 Kickoff
Looks like we are on the field for 24 minutes.
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