What are teams doing now when it comes to in season strength training? Are your teams lifting and if so, what kind of training are they doing?

Highlands does 3 days a week strength and speed training during the season. It varies what they do week to week but 2 days are dedicated to lifting/strength and the third day is speed and agility training. It is key to maintaining weight/strength and helps with limiting certain injuries.

Since they play on Fridays how do they schedule those days during the week?

3 minutes ago, 24Rocks said:

Since they play on Fridays how do they schedule those days during the week?

For Freshman, it's Monday PM weights, Tuesday PM weights, Wednesday AM weights, Friday AM weights. It varies week to week, but this is common. "Weights" is a mixture of weight training and speed/agility.

3 minutes ago, TheConfluence said:

For Freshman, it's Monday PM weights, Tuesday PM weights, Wednesday AM weights, Friday AM weights. It varies week to week, but this is common. "Weights" is a mixture of weight training and speed/agility.

Thanks. What school is that?

1 minute ago, 24Rocks said:

Thanks. What school is that?

Highlands

11 minutes ago, TheConfluence said:

Highlands

Is the varsity schedule similar?

Just now, 24Rocks said:

Is the varsity schedule similar?

FirstTimeLongTime will have to answer that one.

34 minutes ago, 24Rocks said:

Since they play on Fridays how do they schedule those days during the week?

8 minutes ago, 24Rocks said:

Is the varsity schedule similar?

Typical schedule has been strength/lifting Monday and Tuesday before school and then speed and agility on Thursday after school.

If your program is not lifting during the season, then you don't have a good program.

Need a minimum of 2 days of lifting during the season. Young guys/JV only guys should really be getting 3 days in. Most other states have in school strength and conditioning which makes it easier. Less volume during the season (less sets), looking to maintain strength, limit injuries, etc. Kentucky as a whole is way being the 8 ball when it comes to strength and conditioning. All schools should really have a full time (Certified) strength coach that runs all the S&C for all the sports.

A S&C friend of mine had this set up for in season S&C:

Monday: Full Body Heavy

Tuesday: Sprint Conditioning

Wednesday: Full Body Volume

Thursday: MMA Conditioning

Friday: Explosive Primer

This school had a S&C class during the day that most of the athletes in the school took.

I played high school and college football in the 90's and practice was a lot different back then, tons of full contact. Even had coach a with philosophy "practice is so hard it made the games feel easy.” Body was so sore it was hard to lift weights but it was still scheduled twice a week. These days I find practice comical almost like flag football. Meaning your offseason workout just continue through the season or your team gets soft.

Don't forget we also took salt pills and heaven forbid hydration until after practice. Oops showing my age, but coaches do get smarter on certain things over time.