Over the past few weeks I have heard a lot of issues regarding lower extremity injury and the body image issue of "not ready for summer yet".
I have put emphasis on the benefits of strength training and conditioning. I have addressed the need to lower the stress on the body's joints by reducing un-functional weight. I have continued being empathetic with each individuals special needs all to no avail.
I have stated in the past, to know and not to do is not to know. Therefore it is the duty of each coach to put it into terms that his/her charges can remember, soooooo....
Slow feet, don't eat. In other words, if you aren't moving your feet as in conditioning, heart rate up, sweat'n in your production circuit...Don't fucking eat! You haven't earned it!
You're injured and can't move your legs...no one said you had to run! You can bike, swim, something non weight bearing and aerobic.
"Mass moves mass and I'm a super heavy weight." Sure it does, but in my program the order of importance:
1. Health
2. Strength
3. Speed
You're not healthy when you are fat. Your joints aren't healthy when you are fat.
You CAN be strong and maintain a majority of your strength with less stress on your joints and organs. (Most of my folks have dropped the un-necessary weight and still can sling the bars and dumb bells.)
In a nutshell...STOP eating as much as you do! You won't be paid for being dead.
If you want to make a change in your life, you need to make changes in your life! Get it?
Today's Team Training:
Run: 5 K
Bench: 6x6x135 men 85 women
then
1 set for 30 reps. Most everyone did this. Some required two sets
Push Ups: 6x10
Dumb bell Overhead Press: 6x6x35 men 20 women
then one set of 30 reps
DB Lateral Raise: 6x6x 25 men 15 women
then a set of 30
Team to run ten minutes
Bike: 20 minutes