isnt it against the rules to have organized practice in the summer?
isnt it against the rules to have organized practice in the summer?
Listen To Me wrote:
William Munny wrote:I feel your progression is too aggressive for most young kids. Most HS freshmen are weak with poor form. To have them up to 40+ miles will usually mean 30% or more will be hurt and miss large chunks of training time. I feel it is beneficial to run less mileage and accumulate more mileage over time by remianing consistent without time off for injury. Only after showing they can handle higher mileage would I proceed. I also feel that with a few exceptions, a HS coach running kids over 55 miles a week are thinking of the glory of the "program" rather than what is best for the kids long-term development. I like to focus on strengthening at a young age with training supplemented with form drills, weights, core exercises, step running, etc. to develop form efficient enough to safely add miles.
You are training those kids like Little Bill.
Did you even read my second paragraph?
How did you come up with that "55" magic number?
While you think my schedule is too aggressive for most runners, don't you think a 55 mile a week cap is holding some better runners back?
Listen, I did not say the above program was for everyone. I specicly said:
"I'm going to lay out for you an easy plan to follow with your athletes (or kids) to bring them along in the sport of distance running (1 mile to 5k in high school progressing to 3000 to 10k in college) from the summer before their freshman year in high school to being ready for a successful collegiate career as a scholarship athlete."
If being ready for a successful collegiate career as scholarship athlete is not their goal than yes, by all means, be satsified with less. But for those who do have that as goal ......
Not bad, I actually thought you would be full of it. However, I think you are actually pretty damn on! However, OH MY GOD THE PROBLEMS WITH PARENTS! We got to be warm and fuzzy, only run 25 to 40 miles that is plenty..drives ya nuts. Then they can't understand why their HS senior can't run sub 8:50 for the 3200. But good stuff by you I think!
The Parents!!! wrote:
However, OH MY GOD THE PROBLEMS WITH PARENTS! We got to be warm and fuzzy, only run 25 to 40 miles that is plenty..drives ya nuts. Then they can't understand why their HS senior can't run sub 8:50 for the 3200. But good stuff by you I think!
Don't tell the parents how many miles the kids are running. Just tell them how long. They all know football, basketball, and baseball practice 2 hours. Just tell them you will only be practicing half that and have the kids run an hour a day. They will never know junior is running 60 miles a week.
How many college coaches want high schoolers who have been running 100 mile weeks?? Like I said before, where are all the York alums on the national scene?