College work out on you tube

[access2]

I came across this Auburn softball training video Youtube...guessing this is what its like in colleges??? I may not show it to the kid...probably quit playing

Cool video, though..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfS5o8IfbyI

[jonriv]

Has been on there for a while- GREAT video. DD used it for ideas for her HS Captain's practices

[Tyler Durden]

[jonriv]

[NumeroUno]

It that their football team? I hope so, who would be stupid enough to have softball players do clean and jerks.

[access2]

It that their football team? I hope so, who would be stupid enough to have softball players do clean and jerks.

I know not much of anything...just feeling and asking my way around with DD...hoping to prepare her as much as possible whatever comes next...but I wonder if this is why EM (and the like) is so popular and mandated by some teams now...I agree about the value of strength & condition ( I could use some myself)..but is this what it is like at the college level?...Gentlemen with kids playing in college...what does your DD say about strength and conditioning training in comparison to their days in travel? (I know about HS...they really do not do anything significant there )?

BTW...not to single out this school here...like I said I have no clue what it is like at any of the schools

[NumeroUno]

I won't mention any names but a top D-I school a few years back had the same guys that did the strength and condition for the football team run a strength and condition for the softball team. Three girls that year had the same shoulder problem and all had surgery. Since then the program changed what the girls do.

In football you need a lot of muscle to help protect yourself, these softball programs that have these girls pump a bunch of weight are clueless. Speed and agility and rubber band work is all they need.

[hit4power]

Gentlemen with kids playing in college...what does your DD say about strength and conditioning training in comparison to their days in travel? (I know about HS...they really do not do anything significant there )?

My DD's experience (frosh at DIII). Fall semester - Weight room 6:30am three days a week. It is an Olympic strength program that works the large muscles - core, trunk, legs. So power cleans, bulgarian split squats and a lot of other stuff that I don't even know what it is. The strength coach came out of the Pac-12 so it mirrors what most DI's are doing. The program is tailored for each sport and gender. On the other two days of the week, it is conditioning at 7:30am, meaning you are on the track and running. Mix of distance, agility, and gassers. It way surpasses anything she did in HS or TB, and my kid was a pretty serious gym rat on her own. On the plus side, she's lost 15lbs (and she wasn't chubby to start), gained 0.2s on her home to first, and has added a lot of strength. They are tested twice a semester for strength, speed, and endurance - woe to she who fails (and I'm not sure I could pass).

No one, especially college kids, likes to get up at dark-thirty and hit the gym but DD is now a believer. BTW - they sent her the work outs the summer before she showed up, and they tested the first week of the fall semester.

[jonriv]

Gentlemen with kids playing in college...what does your DD say about strength and conditioning training in comparison to their days in travel? (I know about HS...they really do not do anything significant there )?

My DD's experience (frosh at DIII). Fall semester - Weight room 6:30am three days a week. It is an Olympic strength program that works the large muscles - core, trunk, legs. So power cleans, bulgarian split squats and a lot of other stuff that I don't even know what it is. The strength coach came out of the Pac-12 so it mirrors what most DI's are doing. The program is tailored for each sport and gender. On the other two days of the week, it is conditioning at 7:30am, meaning you are on the track and running. Mix of distance, agility, and gassers. It way surpasses anything she did in HS or TB, and my kid was a pretty serious gym rat on her own. On the plus side, she's lost 15lbs (and she wasn't chubby to start), gained 0.2s on her home to first, and has added a lot of strength. They are tested twice a semester for strength, speed, and endurance - woe to she who fails (and I'm not sure I could pass).

No one, especially college kids, likes to get up at dark-thirty and hit the gym but DD is now a believer. BTW - they sent her the work outs the summer before she showed up, and they tested the first week of the fall semester.

Pretty much the same experience with my DD. Much more emphasis on weights and conditioning then she ever saw in hs