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Post by tiger11 on Dec 4, 2023 22:34:37 GMT -6
Does anyone invite 8th graders to come to varsity off-season workouts?
We go M, W, F for 2 hours after school.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 5, 2023 4:13:57 GMT -6
No. It is illegal where we are for 8 graders to work out with high school kids. Now what we do, is we bring in our rising 9 graders after school during the months of March and April to workout. This teaches them HOW to lift and move, so that when summer workouts start, they will have some kind of idea what is going on. However, when they come, they are the only ones in the wt. room.
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Post by larrymoe on Dec 5, 2023 7:14:32 GMT -6
I used to start letting them come in around the end of February/beginning of March. Usually after their basketball season ended. Talked with my older kids about how to help, don't make fun of them for lifting light weights, etc.
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Post by blb on Dec 5, 2023 7:38:33 GMT -6
Friend of mine, highly-successful coach, would have 8th graders come in Tu-Th evenings after New Year (don't remember exactly when he started) and do BFS "Starting Strength" program.
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Post by bulldogsdc on Dec 5, 2023 7:51:34 GMT -6
Illegal??? Where? Middle School has been lifting since their summer break after their 6th grade year. Rising 9th graders get folded in after MS track and baseball is over.
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Post by coachwoodall on Dec 5, 2023 7:53:56 GMT -6
At previous stop we brought them in after Christmas MWF
Here we have a weight room set up at the MS
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Post by MICoach on Dec 5, 2023 7:56:30 GMT -6
We have a middle school PE teacher who runs the after school weight program for them at the high school a couple days a week.
We've done their summer workouts with the high school in the past, and other times independent. Ideally we can have everyone in the building together but cater the workout/skill level to each group. They usually are not capable of doing all of the things the HS kids are.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Dec 5, 2023 9:09:09 GMT -6
It is illegal in some places for sure but there are ways around it. At my last stop, we could not officially bring 8th graders in to our high school and work them out. However, several schools started offering a free strength camp a couple 3 days a week for any 7th or 8th grader that wanted to come. It was hosted at the high school & the strength camp was basically an intro to the high schools off-season program. In the perfect world, we would all be at unit schools where the middle school is in same building & we would get them during the school day. This is the case at my present school.
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Post by JoshC on Dec 5, 2023 13:14:30 GMT -6
We're not allowed to have 8th graders working with the high school kids. What we're doing this year starting in February is having some of the 8th grade coaches run the weight room in the evenings. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday is what we're doing. Here, we will teach them how to lift, so when they start working with us in June, they understand the basics of our lifts and how we operate our weight room sessions.
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Post by carookie on Dec 5, 2023 14:44:34 GMT -6
Illegal??? Where? Middle School has been lifting since their summer break after their 6th grade year. Rising 9th graders get folded in after MS track and baseball is over. In California, you can't have MS students work out with your program, established players, until the end of their school year and they are technically enrolled in HS. You can have a separate camp, with workouts etc. but they cant be practicing with your team before that. |
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Post by bluboy on Dec 5, 2023 14:57:04 GMT -6
We are a regional school district and have sending districts. This situation means that we can not have incoming frosh workout with us until they graduate from 8th grade. We started running weight training clinics in the winter. These clinics are held in the high school on Saturday's, open to any 6th-8th grader, and are sponsored by the local recreation association.
Once school is officially finished and we are into summer workouts, we encourage the incoming frosh to attend so they can learn the proper way to lift and the basics of our offensive and defensive systems.
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Post by IronmanFootball on Dec 8, 2023 15:02:42 GMT -6
Does anyone invite 8th graders to come to varsity off-season workouts? We go M, W, F for 2 hours after school. I'm assuming you don't have a JV? When I was at K-12 school we had 7th graders start in Jan. We color coded the workouts: Red for Rookies- No training exp, mostly bodyweight movements Blue for Basic Returning but less training exp Green for Go- Returning with medium training exp Black for Advanced- Returning high training exp |
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Post by mc140 on Dec 13, 2023 10:28:20 GMT -6
Our school district does not allow it. They are not allowed until June and only if they registered for summer camp.
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Post by blb on Dec 16, 2023 12:15:25 GMT -6
Does anyone invite 8th graders to come to varsity off-season workouts? We go M, W, F for 2 hours after school. Aren't your 8th graders involved in MS sports? Also, if they came to your Varsity workouts - how do they get home afterwards (bus riders)? Not to mention I don't think it's a good idea to have 13-14 year-olds in with 16-18 year-olds. And two hours would definitely not be a good thing for those young kids. Might just teach them that being a football player is not much fun. |
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Post by fballcoachg on Dec 31, 2023 20:55:19 GMT -6
Our HS has a weights class. SOME 8th graders have the class as well. Those that don't, workout after school. If they are in a sport and can't work out after school, they don't. We are in a fortunate situation to have almost all of our HS athletes taking strength during the day and freeing up our strength coach to work with young kids afterwards. We are also a k-12 campus (we have 3 buildings but they are all connected and all can access our athletic facility).
We "officially" have them with varsity the summer of their 9th grade year just like everyone else.
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Post by groundchuck on Jan 10, 2024 12:58:15 GMT -6
Our MS and HS are in the same building. They all workout together. There are no rules in Minnesota about that. Shoot 7th graders are eligible for varsity sports here.
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Post by coachstephen13 on Jan 23, 2024 13:50:11 GMT -6
We do an 8th grade signing day right around the college signing day in Feb. and talk about what we expect and how we do things. After that we have them come to the weight room Tues and Thurs and lift. They are lifting when the older guys are but are doing a different workout, they are doing introductory stuff to make sure all the form is correct and by the summer time they are doing the same workouts.
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Post by coachtconkle on Jan 30, 2024 11:57:09 GMT -6
I have coached at 6 schools, at 4 of them the 8th grade was part of the high school so YES they were part of the workouts and Spring Training Practices. At the 2 really really large schools it was different. At 1 we bussed the 8th-graders to the HS for workouts and Spring Training Practices, at the other there were too many "feeder" Jr High Schools and students at those schools were zoned for as many as 3 different schools when they move(d) to 9th-Grade.
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Post by bbrown2804 on Jan 30, 2024 12:27:18 GMT -6
We would have our 8th graders start in the spring but they would lift separately from our HS kids. Allowed our frosh coaches to start building relationships with them while the kids got to learn our core lifts, expectations, standards, etc. That way, when summer came around and they did start lifting with sophomores, juniors, and seniors, they felt way more comfortable coming in and understood the routine.
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Post by 33coach on Feb 9, 2024 17:23:30 GMT -6
8th grade off-season should be:
... Other sports
Don't burn kids out.
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Post by coachdawhip on Feb 12, 2024 19:16:05 GMT -6
Tuesday and Thursday after MLK Day for 45 minutes IF they aren't doing another sport.
WE promote that other sport!
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