Today is the first day of lifting as a team for our players. We have 2 hours set aside for open gym and lifting to follow. I love going to the open gyms and watching and communicating with players to get to know them on a personal level. This is very fulfilling to me and is a nice change of pace from my full time job. After open gym concludes, I am able to take the players to the weight room and pass out the strength program I have designed. I briefly go through the exercises we are going to do today and the bigger picture scheme. Before we walked in to lift, I set up 5 stations for the guys to make things easier and to space out the players. Today, we are maxing out the upper body. We only have 30 minutes, so I wanted to get these guys focused on getting this done so we can get all the statistics for my spreadsheets. We ended up going a little over the 30 minutes allocated, but it was because the players were pushing themselves to get higher numbers. It was very rewarding to see each and every one of them putting in the max effort. Day 1 went very smoothly.
Challenge: A lot of guys form was off because they had never lifted in high school. This was very odd to me, but I am determined to get this fixed.
Challenge: A lot of guys form was off because they had never lifted in high school. This was very odd to me, but I am determined to get this fixed.