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I need to know what sorts of weight training are people doing. We work hard in the Weight Room but I think maybe we lift to much in the season. I do not know if our kids recover properly for their game on Friday Night. What kind of sets and reps are you guys doing...
Our kids lift 3 days a week. They do bench, squat (which i dont like), cleans and plyo's. Each session is 10 minutes long of each lift. They do 3 sets of 6 to 8 on each exercise. Thats what we do in season. We leave the auxiliary lifts to free time and the off season.
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Post by clipper coach on Feb 13, 2004 13:08:59 GMT
We are thinking of lifting on Monday's and Thusday's this year in season. With our games on Friday, is lifting the day before a game good or bad? Will welcome all opinions.
I have the book "Complete Conditioning for Football" by the strength and conditioning coaches from Nebraska. They recommend a full day of rest before games. They also recommend lifting during the season, however, they cut the sets to two and the reps to five instead of ten. They still do approximately the same amount of exercises however.
i wouldnt suggest workin out the day before a game. I'm a certified personal trainer, working out breaks down muscle fibers, and they need recuperation. If your kids are lifting heavy, that night and the following day your body is working along with the kids' diet to rebuild those muscles. Shortly before gametime, some pro athletes do a bit of circuit training (every muscle group touched on but not trained too intensely) to get muscles warm and ready. The day after a game your players might be sore, especially legs and lower back, but if they're in good shape, they can lift the day after a game.
I would suggest coming up with a workout plan that gives your athletes at least 48 hours of recovery time after working with weights before game time.
We lift Saturday, Monday, and Wednesday during the season. Saturday is usually our only squat day. We do bench and cleans as core lifts on the other days. We do auxillary lifts each of the three days.
Coach, we lift twice a week during the season. We lift during our first and last practices of the week. We use the BFS program and we make sure that three core lifts are done each day with three auxiliaries. Last year we attempted to lift every day during the season and we found that the kids were trying too hard to save themselves. I hope this helps.
Lou Cella
Head Varsity Football Coach
Greater Nanticoke Area High School (PA)
Coach, We train Mondays during which we use strecthing and light multi-jointed movements.( Squat, Bench, Cleans) The reps are low(3-5x) with two sets MAX. The wight is roughly 60% to 75% of their 1-rep Max. We also train our Core and lower backs on Mondays. Monday is a day to heal and prepare meantally for the upcoming week. Tuesday we condition such as light sprints and limited pylometrics. Wednesday we lift in similar fashion as Monday. Come Thursday, again light sprints and core training. Friday morning if possible, we will get a set of one of our three lifts alternating from Mon., Wed., lifting days. This helps prepare the muscles for the explosive work going into the evenings game. Always train to maintain the strength. We are not looking to break any records in the weightroom, only on the field.
we do dumbbell work on saturdays after the game. 3 sets of 10 to 20. we do this to loosen up and find out who is banged up. we do DB curls, high pulls, push ups, sit ups, front squats. on Mondays we do our Bench, Squat, and Clean. we cut down on the number of reps, keep the sets at 3 and move up every three weeks with the %'s. but never go over 85 %. On Wednesdays we go back to our DB work but adding front squat press. i don't believe that you ever mantain your strength during a season. you are either going up on down. our chicken eaters go up because we still do our off-season workout with them, but our starters do the above workout and we don't want them falling to far down with their strength. so we are increasing the weight gradually with lower reps. one thing we do is add box squats when we get to 80 %. but our weight we do will go up by 20 to 30 lbs. we tell our kids that everybody else is lifting to maintain but we are still going for strength and that will give us an edge. just me two cents.
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