STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING
OBJECTIVE: Develop a challenging year-long Strength and Conditioning program that improves player confidence and self-esteem, while increasing team building opportunities.
Year 1: Establish lifting dates and expectations with Blue Leadership Council Calendar and Commitment sheets distributed early in the spring
Establish summer weight program
YEAR-ROUND TRAINING PROGRAM
In order to have consistency in any training program it has to be year round. There will be some breaks planned into the program, but it is very important to improve all year. If you take long periods of time off ,not only do you not gain strength, but you also lose it. Our program has different intensity levels built into it. We set our program to peak at the end of each sports season. We want our athletes to be stronger at the end of the football season then they were at the beginning. We try to test toward the end of each sports season and then give the athletes a chance to recover and maintain during the playoff period. With the beginning of each season the intensity picks up. This allows for football players in other sports to continue to improve and helps their current sport as well.
5 GOALS
A great Strength and Conditioning program is a valuable part of any successful football program. Within our Strength and Conditioning Program, we have 5 goals that we want to accomplish.
Philosophy of Training
SAFETY, PERFORMANCE, GROWTH
Athlete health, durability and safety are the primary reasons for our programming. Athletes must master our basic movement patterns before progressing onto more demanding ones. We train durability through carefully planned triple extension movements, for injury prevention and longevity.
Performance enhancement being one of the great benefits of training comes as an additional consideration. Athletes are challenged, measured and guided to greater potential performance. Training models are designed to train overall ability not just for their sport or position.
Growth is both physical and mental. We want our lifters to take the lessons of hard work, perseverance and pride into the world for application. Whereas training methods and fads evolve fast, new concepts are only added once the concept is fully understood.
At our core, we fuse the worlds of Olympic lifts, power lifting and functional movement. We use the BFS concepts of cross sport unified training philosophy, calculated maxes and tempo.
Activities emphasize improving health-related fitness through weight training, change of direction, speed programs and competitive athletic conditioning.
