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Post by bird0660 on Mar 15, 2019 6:28:40 GMT -6
I am hearing more and more about athletic period. In NJ we dont have schools that have this (that I know of). If I was to try to start one in my district what would it look like?
Questions for guys that have it:
Who is able to take the "class" Is it all sports or just football?
What happens when football season is over?
What is accomplished during athletic period (curriculum)?
Is it everyday or every other day?
If you are lifting during athletic period, do you not lift after school? Is it split? Does this lose the "culture" component of weightroom?
What does yours look like so I can try to put together a proposal?
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Post by coachwoodall on Mar 15, 2019 6:37:12 GMT -6
Ours4x4 block
meets last block during the spring
cold weather months lift 3 days a week MVWF, do speed work/mat drills/big boy extra lift TTh
Warmer months (march on) lift MWF, TTH go outside for skill/position work, big boys still get extra lift
Meets every day, it is just a PE elective. Most of our sports teams have some type of athletic PE class. Usually it is during the off season semester. Basketball does theirs in the fall
90-98% of atlettes are in the classes.
Yes we still lift after school, but it is mostly for middle school kids with the odd athlete that their schedule doesn't allow them to be in the class.
If you have the period duirng your season and the season is over, then they are still in the class
The curriculum is basically weight lifting and then some type of practice/skill work
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Post by QBCoachDurham on Mar 15, 2019 6:53:10 GMT -6
At my previous school, it was called "Varsity Sports", and was a PE class taught by one of the football coaches that taught PE. We had it both semesters, last block. 95% of all varsity and JV players were in the class. We also had a PE 1 class in the fall that was all freshmen football players. All football coaches had last block planning and were expected to be in the weightroom or on the field with their players. Each school in the district had the same set-up. At my current school, we have "Athletic Weightlifting," and we usually get about 75% of our varsity players in the class.
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Post by CS on Mar 15, 2019 7:46:13 GMT -6
It's just a class period for our kids. It counts as their PE credit although that can only be used one year. We lift, watch film, start practice etc.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 15, 2019 9:14:36 GMT -6
Ours is labeled football wt training. Kids take it both semesters. In fall we lift and then watch film go over gameplan last 20 min or so. In off season we lift 4 days a week and do speed and agility and plyos one day until weather gets warm. Once weather is warmer we lift 3 days. Do speed/agility/plyos 1 and go outside and do linear speed and conditioning 1. We pretty much get all our kids in there. I think there are 3 this semester that don’t have it. One schedule couldn’t work so he is in a general wt training class. The other 2 are in baseball wt training class.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2019 16:37:33 GMT -6
I am hearing more and more about athletic period. In NJ we dont have schools that have this (that I know of). If I was to try to start one in my district what would it look like? Questions for guys that have it: Who is able to take the "class" Is it all sports or just football? What happens when football season is over? What is accomplished during athletic period (curriculum)? Is it everyday or every other day? If you are lifting during athletic period, do you not lift after school? Is it split? Does this lose the "culture" component of weightroom? What does yours look like so I can try to put together a proposal? Of the few schools I know who still have it: It’s typically a class during the last period of the day, every day so athletes can get to practice earlier and receive a PE credit for their efforts. It is generally open to football and other sports, such as basketball or baseball, who want to practice during the school day and get kids in and out earlier. The rule is that a kid needs to be have the approval of his/her coach to take it. It’s a huge help and a lot of the powerhouse programs in our state have it, I believe, though it’s now a hard sell to many administrators in the days of high stakes testing. When football season is over, the winter sport athletes go to practice those sports while the ones still in the class will lift for the remainder of the semester. “Athletic period” is usually separate from a weightlifting class, which is open to all students and can be taught at any period during g the day. It’s rare to find schools that let kids take both a lifting class or other PE class and an athletic period in the same semester. When I was in HS, we had it my senior year and we did not stay after school to lift for the remainder of the fall semester, since football players had to be in there. It was a 4x4 block schedule for 90 minutes with athletic periods on a per-semester basis for kids, so in spring we would do our football lifting after school for anyone who couldn’t take the weights class. Grades for athletic period were simply based on attendance and participation: kids who either dressed out or showed up with a valid excuse not to got a daily grade of A, while those with unexcused absences got an F for the day. Other schools I know of may just offer it as a 45 minute class at the end of the day. Students who aren’t using the athletic period as their elective during that time will take other classes. If anything, it is a huge facilitator for the weight room culture. However, if you don’t already have it, a straightforward lifting class open to all students would probably be a much easier sell to administrators than jumping straight into an athletic period. |
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Post by coachtua on Mar 20, 2019 8:38:24 GMT -6
At my previous stop football, baseball, softball and basketball all had an athletic period. Football had 3 classes, 1 for each level. Athletic period was the last period of the day. Track coach had a class but it was mixed with regular students and his track athletes.
Each student in the class had to be an athlete for that sport.
For football in season it was used as a film and install session. When the season ended it becomes a normal PE class period with an emphasis on athletic movements. M/W skill on the field offensive emphasis on Monday defense on Wednesday, line in the weight room. Wednesday was classroom work for the QBs. They would review coverages and which concepts in our passing game had the best success vs the various coverages. Skills would lift after school. T/Th line on the field offensive emphasis on Tuesday defense on Thursday, skill in weight room. Line would lift after school. Friday was usually a 7 on 7 day for skills line in weight room.
Class schedule was 6 1 hour periods, so the class was daily.
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