And by grocery shopping, I mean drink water. Our bodies? I once ate nothing but Wawa for three days when I was 23 years old because I was too lazy to go grocery shopping. Not run slower or sputter, but flat out destroy itself. Have you ever actually considered how amazing it is? If you put anything except three slightly different (we’re talking there actually might not be a difference) grades of gasoline in your car, it will immediately cease to go. In fact, it’s so good at it that try as we might (sitting all day, eating fluorescent things, not sleeping), it still supports us asking all kinds of things from it. The good news! Again, that whole resiliency thing! Your body wants to be healthy and functional, in fact it’s very good at it when provided the right attention. Our bodies are incredibly resilient, but whether it’s falling while walking your dog or bench pressing more than you should (to use myself as an example in the last 12 months), you will get hurt. You will, at a point or more in your life be physically injured by something you do. However, a good teacher should be mindful enough of what he/she is planning to know if that routine could be a possible detriment to the athletes competition performance.I have good news and bad news. I'm not exercise science expert, but have seen enough lifting plans and talked to enough exercise science guys to know that it more helpful than harmful to do some exercise on a game day. Especially when you consider most athletes are spending the majority of the day rest in a school desk. So yes based on what I have seen before getting in a good lifting routine and sweat going is helpful to most athletes on game day. A lifting teacher with a decent background in exercise science should be able to recognize when he/she has assigned a particularly taxing routine and know what adjustments would be warranted for completion athletes. For that the teacher could easily ask those athletes to make a minor adjustment to the number of lifts, the amount of reps, the amount of weight, skip/substitute one of the lifts in the rotation, etc.
However, on a few of those class days the style of lifting could indeed cause some minor issues for an athlete who will have a game later that day. Realistically trying to get most of the students to just lift with maximum effort and proper form is a daunting task for most. Nor are most students really trying to push themselves to the breaking point over the course of that same hour. Heck in many case the lifting teacher isn't asking athletes to push it to the ultimate limit within the hour of actual workout time most of them have. Many days the regular lifting routine would be fine for those having a game or not. But also rather than telling the teacher to not let the athlete lift at all the coach should be open minded to the teacher approach if he/she has a solid background on the subject and can show proof of that their plan is successful to athletes. I think this is where good communication between the teacher, coaches, and athletes is helpful. Sadly though I have heard of a few instances where the lifting teacher either did recognize a particularly taxing routine would cause an issue or just didn't care enough to allow for some minor adjustments to me made. This would be no different than giving some modifications on an assignments for some students, so I'm sure a teacher that cares to make an effort would be able to handle this. A good teacher may allowing competition athletes to have some minor adjustments to the lifting routine depending on the normal lifting plan for that day. But a good lifting teacher should have the time and ability to recognize what he/she is asking of the students and how that may affect certain athletes who are competing later that day. Sure there are sports specific lifts to emphasis but that would be a lot of work to balance all of those routines in the space most weight rooms have. From what I have seen a lifting teacher doesn't have to make some personalized plan for every student as an earlier post suggested.
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I'm not sure the question should be "to lift or not to lift," but rather how to best utilize the time in the weight room on a game day.