Do most teams in SCISA require weight lifting for football players during the off season? I know it's illegal to make these things manditory, but a coach can more or less make his players come. Do most schools try to get as much as they can all year or do they mostly just focus on getting stronger in the summer?

I would think you don't need to ask other people on here cowboy. What you need to do is ask yourself, "what do i want from my high school career?" Do you want to be a mediocre player or do you want to be the best? If you want to be the best then if you will make time to train at every convenience. If you want to just play then you will do as little as you can to get you through. My question would be why would you not try to be the best you can and win it all and become part of lore. If you don't why even bother to play. I guess that's the difference in the championship teams and those that just show up. Who can you really expect to win.

thanks for the life lesson striped shirt. i was simply asking if most schools participated in some sort of off season weight lifting program or if it was a pretty uncommon thing. thanks for the wisdom though.

The shirt is right cowboy. If it meant winning the big one i would train every day if need be. Usually the team that wins it all has a focused goal that starts early and finishes strong. If you are not taking advantage of your offseason you are falling 6 months behind and i doubt many teams can make up for that. I wish we would have done it when i was in schoool. We surely would have won one maybe more. Less talented teams were always a little better conbditioned or stronger than us. Take advantage of your opportunities to play. They will be gone before you know it.

No offense to anyone but Cowboy6 is asking a simple question concerning whether or not most teams lift together during the offseason and not just summer. He isn't asking advice about how to become a better player.

exactly. Question: Do most teams lift weights during the off season or do most scisa teams wait until the summer before they begin their weightlifting program?

Offseason lifting is one way of becoming a better player so why wouldn't you do it? If other teams are doing it you are keeping up with the Joneses, if they are not you are getting a valuable leg up on the competition which is invaluable.

scratch the whole idea.

striped doesnt see it cowboy. the answer is: it depends on the school. I know the larger privates do.

And they all should cowboy. I know most of the public schools do now. I didn't think it was illegal to make them either. You can certainly limit their playing time if they miss too many workouts.

yeah, i'm pretty sure it's illegal to make weight lifting manditory until summer, but of course the coach controls who plays and who sits so they can pretty much make them manditory if they want to.

To answer your question cowboy6 there are schools in scisa that do make their players weightlift during and after football season. one kid who went to a scisa school which I will not name said they were pushed to take a physical education class so they can lift during the day so they don't have to make time after school when they have to do homework. Striped Shirt I understand your arguement but the only reason they are high school athletes is because they are students at the high school. They must maintain certain grades in their core classes to participate in athletics. Kids who care more about their academic future do not get much time to hit the weights during the school year. Balancing both can be very hard, but if you take the easy classes and still don't care about your grades, then I agree that the person should try as hard as possible. Trying to manage both during the school year, espicially in your junior year where most colleges look at it as your peak performance year academically, is very difficult.

I feel that it is important for athletes to lift year round, reguardless of the sport. If a student is not a multi-sport athlete what is he going to do with the 3 to 5 hours every day before his parents get home. In my experience nothing positive really comes from the argument. Saying that a 2 to 3 hour session of weight training after school in the off season is monopolizing valuble time that a kid could be studying is ridiculous. Hello XBOX 360. The benefits far out weigh the negatives. We are prparing students for college, and possibly some student athletes. What do you think their training cycles are like? The point I am trying to make is that high school students are still learning time managment skills. The more structred their enviroment the more chance they have of making a decision that will benefit them in the long run. In addition to prparing them for the up coming athletic season, wieght training year round can lead to healthier living in their adult live. I know I still work out and only because of the benefits I saw in high school and college. The schools I know of have year round weight training, it is not mandatory, but is expected. And they are all realatively new training programs.