Season Confusion?

With the way the weather has been lately it's hard to tell whether it's Spring, Winter, or Fall. Our Spring vacation was more like winter, last Monday and Tuesday were like Spring, and these past few days have seemed like fall. Considering the season confusion I figured it afforded the opportunity to bring clarity to where you should be in regards to your fitness and sports conditioning.

Classes (aerobics/conditioning and weight training/conditioning)
There are 8 weeks before our post fitness test and 9 weeks before the Green Lake run. You should be asking yourself if the cardio work we are doing in class will be enough to help you meet standards. Look for opportunities outside of school to do more. Also, extra work on curl-ups, push-up holds, and push-ups at home is a simple way to maintain and/or increase your muscle strength and endurance.

Spring Sports
Even though you are in season, don't abandon the weight room. Short intense sessions 1-2 times per week will help you maintain your off-season gains and give you the strength and confidence to finish your season strong.


It's nice to see the track and tennis teams keeping up their efforts.

Fall Sports
If you haven't started off-season conditioning yet, you need to! There are 18 weeks before the first Fall practices. While that may seem like a lot of time, think about what your compatition is doing right now. If you haven't started yet, you can bet they have. And if by chance they haven't, then you can be the one to get the edge by starting now.


Winter Sports
Ideally, it's time to start off-season conditioning now! Between now and the end of the school year (10 weeks) training can help you rehab any injuries, improve your joint mobility, develop your core strength and stability, and develop your muscular and cardiovascular endurance (re-conditioning). Also, if you need or want to get your body composition to an "ideal" weight, now is the time to make the changes! For example, if you are planning to wrestle at a certain body weight, get there over the next 25 weeks instead of starving yourself and depriving yourself valuable nutrients (energy) to make weigh-in before a match!

Remember, the weather may be confused on what it should be doing now, but you shouldn't!

Happy training and hope to see you after school soon!

Yours in strength,



Coach Katinas