Here is your top 3 reasons for kids to play multiple sports.
1. Build mental toughness in a sport that may not be your best.
2. Be coached by multiple coaches with different personalities and styles.
3. Build your athletic physical literacy. Multiple sports = multiple skills.
I recently saw someone complain how about how schools spend all this money on athletics.
I think that people forget or are unaware that athletics and activities are the most effective at-risk program that a school implements.
An estimated 500,000 injuries happen with high school athletes yearly.
70% of those happen in the 2nd or 3rd hour of a practice.
70% of those injuries cause athletes to miss 2-3 days of practice or training.
Food for thought when thinking about how long to train/practice.
The teenage athlete injury ticking time bomb:
💣Less than 8 hours sleep
💣Practice sport 2+ hours intensely
💣Poor nutrition leading to reduced muscle mass and lack of energy for activity
💣High stress levels due to work, school, or relationships
💣Lack of quality training prep
I lost one of these.
Not a real dumbbell, but in November - I weighed 384.5 at a doctor’s appointment.
Today- 323.5
Total weight loss of 61 lbs to date.
View your job as a coach through this lens:
What if sports really exist so people like you can have great relationships with your athletes so you can help them navigate the tough things in life.
Forget wins, losses, rings, & trophies. Did you change someone else’s life?
Life of a Teacher: Pull into the parking lot. You got a Master's Degree + 20 hours and a full-time job and you have a worse car than the kids pulling C's and D's.
My man Aaron was in a serious accident several years ago and has some physical limitations. After a semester, he is rocking now and squatting over 100 lbs. The weightroom isn’t just about your dudes squatting 4 bills. It’s about kids like Aaron improving their quality of life!
November - I weighed 384.5 at a doctor’s appointment.
Today- 331.3
Total weight loss of 53.2 lbs to date. Over halfway to my initial goal of 100 lbs.
Been a lot of hour walking and logging calories. 108 days straight on
@loseit
Weights and PE has to be the only school subject in the world where you get this:
Student/Parent: Well, I (they) have been working out on my (their) own, but not your workouts. Can that count for credit?
Me: Nope. Can you just do whatever math or science assignment you want?
Sadly, Jace has passed on (last evening.) My other fondest memory of him is being the ultimate hype man for the little kids every year at Night Under the Lights Camp every year. Every time I tell my current players to be hype guys for the little ones I picture Jace Ward.
I don’t want to listen to whatever your excuse is for missing workouts...I care about consistency and performance.
In the fall, people don’t want to listen to my excuses when we don’t win. They care about consistency and performance.
For everyone who complains about how your helmet hurts your head, is uncomfortable, etc....This is what we wore back in the day!! Try this instead of the SpeedFlex...
Doing some analysis of our injuries this past season as compared to summer weights attendance. Some trends developing just in the data entry.
Not one of our guys who had 100% attendance all summer suffered an injury that kept them out of any football games this year
Bench, squat, and clean. Made me strong as an ox in high school (along with years of carrying buckets and bucking hay bales.)
Bench, squat, and clean are still pillars of my program. I get that others don’t use some of those lifts, but they work for us. I still like old school.
1-1/2 months ago an internet troll told me to “go eat another hamburger”…since then I have lost almost 30 lbs. I got lots of other motivation but sometimes it helps to be fueled by hate.
I really feel for Bill Snyder. All the speculation about his future has to be weighing on him as much as this season and his battle with cancer has. The man has become a victim of his own success. He has resurrected KSU football twice. This game is his life and entire being.
Some unsolicited coaching advice:
When you are at home with your family, be where your feet are. I am guilty of not doing this. Your most important job is as a parent & a spouse. Your career may be a passion, but don't let that bleed over and take away from what really matters.
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I wanted to write up a manual about this, but right now I think it is best shared as a thread.
Football coaches let's drop the 40 x 40's or the 10 x 110's and incorporate speed development and conditioning tests like the ones in the thread. Your kids will love it!
Parenting advice: if your kid gets invited to a birthday party then you go.
I’m at a party today where they rented a room at a trampoline place…..3 kids showed up.
Might take away from what I want to do on a Sunday, but every kid deserves to have a great birthday.
Some may be tired of me posting my progress, but legitimately every time I post, I get multiple messages from people asking how I am doing this and I feel like it really is helping and inspiring people.
I am an avid reader and have coached for 22 years. I think I can really add value to the coaching profession with a thread of must reads for a new coach or even a veteran searching for a way to improve.
So here are my recommendations.
Parents: Instead of having your child emulate the workouts of a successful athlete or Olympian right now, go back and see what that athlete was doing when they were your child’s age. Chances are they were sampling other sports, building skills across multisport & having fun.
I think COVID is a serious and dangerous situation, but percent of positive tests is a really absurd metric in an area where you can’t get tested unless you have COVID symptoms.
For free I am going to give you the best off-season training programs for football this winter.
Best agility & hand-eye coordination program: PLAY BASKETBALL
Best toughness & physicality program: GO WRESTLE
Best body composition improvement: JOIN SWIMMING
Be an athlete!
I had the thought the other day about combining all the great tools like Signal 6, McGill's 3, The Bulletproof Project, RPR, Oregon Dynamic Warm-Up and
@altis
's dribble and rudiment hop series into 1 warm-up or perhaps a menu for abbreviated warm-ups. This is what I came up with.
Blessed to be coaching football and blessed to have played.
Let’s see a picture of you in your playing days in your favorite sport!!
Put a little positive on Twitter today!
We always hear that football players should wrestle, throw shot or discus, or run track....
Why is it we never hear the narrative from the other direction? All sprinters or wrestlers should play football, etc.
For anyone interested in this offense. I ran this for multiple years at Mission Valley and Council Grove. Helping the football community by sharing my playbook here from those days. If you download it, the videos should play as well.
I think one day I am going to do a clinic: Barbecue & Barbells. Have like a 4-5 clinic series and hit every major BBQ Mecca: KC, Texas, Memphis, Carolina, ????
Mostly just an excuse to eat copious amounts of BBQ.
For Those Who Need This:
Here is a Bodyweight or At Home Workout on
@RackPerformance
that requires no equipment (except for a chair and 1 step on a set of stairs.) I will try to post 1 every day as I build them for my athletes for next week.
Had someone ask me why I am wearing a tie in this picture coaching a football game.
Nearly every homecoming game of my career, I wear a shirt and tie to honor my high school coaches, Paul Dold and Chris Rainsforth, who wore one every game.
Setting an aggressive weight loss goal to get to by track season. I need to do this for my health. I’ll be posting occasionally on my progress. Welcoming anyone else out there to join me on the journey to get healthier.
The 2 time defending state champs have a game today but are attacking the weights fast and explosive to activate for tonight’s match!
#CultureOfStrength
For all you coaches “grinding” in the office who happen to have little ones, just remember you can’t get back time you miss with your own kids. Take a break. Enjoy your kids while they are little.
Imagine if a baseball or softball coach started with a dynamic warm-up then timed 3 sprints to 1st base, recorded, ranked the times and publish it. Do 1st to 3rd or something similar on another day. Do it every week?
Applying what I learned in the
@ALTIS
Foundations Course to build a plan for our summer strength and speed sessions. I probably will need to inevitably trim some from this, but a great exercise in identifying what our essentials are and how we should address them.
I created this structure a long time ago to illustrate how I think a community's long term physical development plan should look. I took some time tonight to put it into graphic form and thought I would share.
Some people are dragging this video...I taught JH PE for years and we now have 6th grade summer weights. These kids love this. We only did it 2 times a week, but those ones who started early with us were bigger and stronger than their peers in 5-6 years. And no stunted growth...
HIGH SCHOOL PE/WEIGHTLIFTING INSTRUCTORS:
Struggling to come up with what do if you have to teach online?
I am creating a Google Drive Folder that will have all my materials including choice boards w/video, manuals, worksheets etc that can you can adapt.
Pet Peeve: when people who have strong opinions on football, but don’t know the difference between wing t, flexbone, single wing, or double wing. Four really different styles of football and distinct offenses.
For all of you
#FeedTheCats
disciples out there, I created this dynamic warm-up after listening to
@pntrack
speak & talking to some other
#FeedTheCats
Clinic attendees. I'd love any input from the
#FeedTheCats
community.
Unpopular opinion, but this was for Andy and Travis to work out. Two adult men. Seems like they got it sorted out.
I’ve seen this plenty in reverse from coaches to players and no one bats an eye.
Putting some ideas together of some of the best and most relevant testing we can do for our football program. Wouldn’t try to do these all in one day but wanted to have all of our assessments in one graphic.
Almost every day I see a tweet complaining about the "everyone get a trophy" generation. The issue isn't with the generation of kids that get the trophies folks....the issue is with the generation giving the trophies. That's us. That's our generation. We are the problem.
November - I weighed 384.5 at a doctor’s appointment.
Today- 331.3
Total weight loss of 53.2 lbs to date. Over halfway to my initial goal of 100 lbs.
Been a lot of hour walking and logging calories. 108 days straight on
@loseit
I got 2.8 lbs to lose to meet my goal before Christmas. 12.8 more to meet my goal before the AFCA Convention and finally under 100 lbs left to meet my overall weight loss goal.
#ForwardProgress
Coaches! Let’s help each other out! If you got a side hustle or business that could help other coaches, drop it in the replies here and I’ll retweet them!
I know we got coaches out there doing graphics, writing manuals, etc. and other coaches out there that need those things!
At the
@KSHSFOOTBALL
all-state selections and a common thread is developing: The best players in the state are most often characterized by “never missed a weights session in 3 years”, “100% career weight room attendance” “attended weights twice a day”
#HardWorkIsUndefeated
Read this from
@YorkStrength17
today: Always get great quotes from clinics..one from a college coach from today...
“If ALL of your athletes...ALL...are not in a strength and conditioning class during the day ...you’re 30 years behind (the best athletic programs in the state)”
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I had a great discussion yesterday with some retired coaches.
We agreed many times, you will go to a clinic and listen to a championship winning coach & the film will come on & you can immediately see why they won that championship….they had some amazing athletes
So, FreeLap has been a big topic today. How can someone like me or budget strapped school afford one?
Write a grant. We got our system by writing a Technology in Education grant through the Cox Community Charities grant program. Paid for the entire system in full + a Just Jump