Rainy Day Workouts

Today, like many days in Louisiana, we had a nice thunder storm.  Many teams across the country would have cancelled practice or have done a little jogging around the gym and left.  As a coach, I can't be happy knowing that every day we didn't do what we needed to do to be as prepared as possible for our next competition.  Speaking of that, our next competition is the state meet on May 3rd so we have plenty of work that needs to be done.

To give you an idea of what we do when it rains, first we start off with our warm up jog in the gym and dynamic flexibility drills that we do everyday.  We follow that up with some short strides across the gym to open up a little bit.  For the main body of our workouts we can do a few things including an aerobic circuit routine which intersperses jogging/running with strength exercises.  We can also do a jumps routine which starts off basic, i.e. jumping jacks, and gradually gets more dynamic and intense.  We also do resistance drills such as sleds pushes and partner pulling with ropes.  Most of the team usually does their weight lifting at PE with the other football players, but if they don't lift then we will go in the evening.

Basically, there is a whole host of things you can do even if you don't have access to an outside training area for a day or two.  Sometimes you have to think outside of the box and try and figure out what you can do with what you have, even if it isn't much.  You would be surprised how much work you can get in with little space and little equipment.