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Post by blb on Jul 21, 2019 6:59:19 GMT -6
At the beginning of practice (especially first day of full pads) the kids that attended summer workouts should be mildly uncomfortable, and the ones who didn't should be suffering.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 24, 2019 8:15:40 GMT -6
At the beginning of practice (especially first day of full pads) the kids that attended summer workouts should be mildly uncomfortable, and the ones who didn't should be suffering. I like the sound of that, it sounds great, and it's noble and rewards effort and all that, I just wonder if it's true? I don't know if it's the best practice or not. There seems to be parallel discussions happening here about when to start conditioning, and there's really two ways to do it based on two different goals. 1. You can start at training camp and keep the conditioning pretty light or just program practice appropriately, and by the time game 1 comes around they'll be in as good a "football shape" as they are in shape. 2. You can start at the beginning of summer and work on it all offseason (following a coherent plan, not just running like crazy people) if you want them to improve their underlying fundamental fitness in a football-useful way (i.e. considering the balance of energy systems used and balanced against other training needs). If you're not going to do option 2, which is tedious and unenjoyable and time-consuming, then you might as well just do 1. You may well find that you're better off working on other things, or simply doing nothing because the juice isn't worth the squeeze for whatever reason. Maybe you find it makes the kids burnt out on football and hurts numbers, or that your coaches are fed up, or that you don't really notice that 4th quarter fatigue is a problem so severe as to chew up 3 hours a week all summer to some deleterious effect on team morale, or getting the facilities would strain the budget. But if you haven't worked it slowly but surely all summer long then once camp comes it's too late to make any significant improvement unless you want to cancel football practice in favour of cross-country training. Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources.
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Post by blb on Jul 24, 2019 8:27:59 GMT -6
You need to do enough conditioning in summer so that kids can practice effectively when it begins for however long you go.
Didn't want to waste time getting fatties in shape or have to drag them along when it was time to learn how to play the game.
Another discussion could be conditioning vs. player development. If you're doing flexibility, agility, plyos, form running, sprints, lifting in the summer - which is it?
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