The perfect resource for young athletes to take their fitness to the next level. Get ready for the sports season ahead and get in the best shape of your life with these Offseason Workouts Fitness.
This ebook training program will help young athletes develop speed, agility, strength, acceleration, and first-step quickness, which are important in almost every sport.
What you get in MVP Offseason Workouts for Fitness
18 carefully designed fitness workouts
- Step-by-step breakdown of activities.
- 6-week time period with three sessions or 9 weeks with two sessions each week.
Inspirational story and quote included with each workout
- Each workout begins with a little inspiration through a story and inspiring quote.
- Athletes learn life lessons like the importance of practice and teamwork.
What players need to know
Featured content includes:
- How to interact with coaches
- How to eat smart on game days and before and after practice
- The benefits of goal setting and more
What type of players are these workout plans designed for?
Ages 10 – 17 years old – both boys and girls.
Each workout is 66 minutes long and can be adapted to shorter times.
Sample Plan
Inspirational Story
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How the workouts were designed
Some of the thinking that went into the overall workout plan and each plan include:
- Aerobic fitness, or cardio, often referred to, is the basic fitness that must be achieved to improve conditioning abilities. Exercise lasting more than two minutes is considered to be aerobic in nature and, therefore, includes almost all sporting activities.
- Strengthening. Basic, total-body strengthening workouts can take your game to the next level. Being stronger does not simply mean being able to push people around; it also leads to increased speed and overall athleticism.
- Core strength and stability. Having six-pack abs does not mean you have a strong core. The core muscles include all muscles that stabilize the spine from the hip level up to the shoulder level. Exercises to improve core strength are tremendously important for athletes because the core is where power comes from.
- Footwork. To improve speed and agility, you must be efficient in your footwork. If you waste steps when changing direction or accelerating, you lose speed and agility.
- Plyometrics. Plyometrics is a type of exercise that gives the muscles involved a specific action to improve their ability to switch from an eccentric contraction to a concentric contraction. It teaches your muscles to activate more quickly, increasing speed and power.
Offseason Workouts Fitness Methodology
- Shift activities quickly. Moving from one activity to the next quickly keeps players interested and enables them to work on many different skill sets.
- Increase difficulty over time. Some of the fitness drills will become progressively more difficult. Initially, we want athletes to grow accustomed to using different muscles, and then, as the plan progresses, we’ll ask for more repetitions or longer periods.
- Feedback from results. Logging sets, reps, time, distance, and other result-tracking statistics can observe progression. Compare these results to earlier workouts to see your progression. Review previous results to try and beat previous times, distances, etc.
- Change exercises day to day. Rotating through different exercises between days keeps the routine fresh and keeps you from getting bored. It also helps to avoid a “plateau” effect, where you stop improving because you do the same daily exercise.
- It is designed for individuals but can be used with a bigger group. One player can complete the activities for these offseason workouts on his or her own. However, workouts can be more fun with a partner or two, and these plans will accommodate that. A whole team could work together if there’s enough area and equipment.
- Plans were designed for healthy kids who have played sports before. If you have any concerns about having your child participate in this program from a health perspective, consult with your physician. Kids should bring a water bottle with them and drink water as needed.
Why offseason workouts are important?
- Start the season in great shape. By starting the season in shape, you put yourself in a great position to focus on the sport rather than constantly trying to catch your breath.
- Improve speed, power, and agility. Athletic ability improves during the offseason. Work on improving these components, and then use the regular season to apply them to sport-specific activities. For example, basketball players should improve their first-step explosion in the offseason and then use that skill during the regular season to focus on exploding off the dribble.
- Your team’s coaches don’t have enough time to improve all fitness components. Usually, practices involve some conditioning, and at higher levels, players are either encouraged or required to do some weight training. However, coaches do not have enough time to improve each player’s speed, power, agility, and strength. Use the offseason to help the coach and yourself and come to practice with improved abilities.
More Reasons
- Repetition. In the offseason, you have all the time you want to improve. If you notice something is wrong, you have the time to work on it. Slow it down to ensure you are doing it properly and then take as many repetitions as possible to perfect it. This is especially important for the footwork during activities; if your footwork is off, slow it down, perfect it, and then work up to full speed. You cannot be expected to do everything perfectly on the first try, but you will become better with more repetitions.
- Decrease risk of injury. The better shape you are in, and the safer the strain your muscles, tendons, and ligaments have had on them, the better the body is prepared to keep from injury.
- It provides a platform to strengthen weaknesses and build on strengths. Individual workouts can be tailored to work on areas specific to a player’s strengths and weaknesses.
- It’s a relaxed environment where no one is watching. Individual workouts enable players to take many risks without fear of evaluation or criticism. Sometimes, players improve their abilities by taking chances and some risks.
About the Author
Nolan McMonagle, with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science from Central Washington University, has worked alongside a physical therapist on a professional indoor football team.
In addition to helping treat players’ injuries, he put them through exercise programs to enhance their performance on the field. A basketball coach and author, he also co-wrote MVP Offseason Workouts for Youth Basketball.
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