Used the Doug Soles Order of Operations. Good session

What do you normally do for a warmup before you begin the workout?

Do you think the additional work before served as a more thorough warmup? Or something else going on?

12 to 1 ratio and social distancing & wellness checks being done I hope. And remember no competition is allowed against another team or within your own team. That time trial Great Oak did, unless was solo Time Trials was in violation of California department of health.

We need to all be in and follow the law or no one is going to have a season.

iamconfused wrote:

12 to 1 ratio and social distancing & wellness checks being done I hope. And remember no competition is allowed against another team or within your own team. That time trial Great Oak did, unless was solo Time Trials was in violation of California department of health.

We need to all be in and follow the law or no one is going to have a season.

Our County Health Director put out 25 to one ratio. This mandates 2 practice times. I was describing the morning varsity practice. Trust me, you won't find a bigger advocate of following the posted health guidelines than me.

Health checks in effect, kids show up in masks, workouts done in pods of no more than 7 kids (same pod each time)

As far as our normal warm up for a session like this: It would be something along the lines of 2 miles easy run, + a series of drills of increasing vigor + 2-4 striders of 50 ish meters.

Yesterday was:

1200m wu with laps 2 and 3 being stride the curve, jog the straight.

2 x Agility runs (4 stations of different patterns of runs: Slalom, forward backward slalom, forward / backward strides, side hops)

2 x series of 60 crunches + 15 Push ups + 1 lunge clock (in place lunges with feet going to all positions of the clock, going from 12 - 11:59, then back around the other way.

3 x 10 jump squats with 30 seconds rest

3 x 50 (stride, fast, sprint)

Body of workout 10 x 400 @ 95% vVO2 with equal recovery. (neuromuscular day)

iamconfused wrote:

12 to 1 ratio and social distancing & wellness checks being done I hope. And remember no competition is allowed against another team or within your own team. That time trial Great Oak did, unless was solo Time Trials was in violation of California department of health.

We need to all be in and follow the law or no one is going to have a season.

Why are there so many people like this now? I am all for masks and social distance and the whole thing but this has nothing to do with the topic at all. Let him run his team and do their thing. Bringing this in to every discussion is so god damn annoying. I saw a coach on social media bitching about other teams meeting and he isn’t. There is no law anywhere that I know of that says teams can’t meet. Your school district might not let you but that’s your problem and not all these other teams

Actually it's up to the county health directors. Where people get bent out of shape is if the CHD says no go and then schools practice anyway.

Our league is in 3 different counties, which makes things very interesting. To the north, they never completely shut down and have been in the weight room this whole time. My football coach is freaking out (I'm the AD also).

CoachB wrote:

Actually it's up to the county health directors. Where people get bent out of shape is if the CHD says no go and then schools practice anyway.

Our league is in 3 different counties, which makes things very interesting. To the north, they never completely shut down and have been in the weight room this whole time. My football coach is freaking out (I'm the AD also).

This is not true. You can easily google the California health department youth sports. It was even in the LA Times where the California health department said counties can not have less stringent restrictions.

Why are people like this? Because I want to get back and this kind of thing from club sports is ruining for everyone. Follow the rules.

Coach B.. your league in three counties..I don't feel bad for you.!! try this on for size.. School district with only one high school but district towns span two different counties.. Per state mandate one county cannot have sports one can!! Thank god county that can go is one high school is located in!! so we are a go!! But its been a roller coaster for sure.. and it could change any day now!!

Well there are teams in the same county that are allowed to meet and some aren’t. Coaches don’t take their directive from county “recommendations” they take it from their boss which is their AD who take it from their boss who takes it from their school district. Social media shaming schools for meeting because they are jealous they can’t meet is pathetic and I’m sick of people bitching. People need to mind their own business and take care of their own problems.

va coach wrote:

What do you normally do for a warmup before you begin the workout?

Do you think the additional work before served as a more thorough warmup? Or something else going on?

This. I would say there is a high probability that the 'core work' is innervating a lot of small musculature and prepping the aerobic system for what is to come.

That seems to be working out as a nice warmup for the kids. It's not a lot of actual running but it still works the muscles. Plus kids can generally get away with shorter warmups than adults, so this is equivalent to a pretty solid warmup.

Back in college I'd have a "speed day" once a week. Wickets, short sprints, jump rope, ladder drills, etc. We'd do 30 minutes, then the speed stuff, then another 30-40. No matter what, I'd feel a lot more energized and run faster after the speedwork than the warmup/drills. I think this approach has some good benefits to it.

You mean these guidelines?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2020/08/california-governor-gavin-newsom-new-reopening-guidance-schools-day-care-cohorts-1203023293/amp/

Less than 14 whenever possible.

We’re outside, we wear masks when we’re near each other.

As to the original topic, it could be that all the drills and core served as a better warm up than our usual routine. It certainly didn’t detract from the main session.