Elitetrack: Sport Training & Conditioning

A couple weeks ago I bought a pair of gymnastics rings and last week I started using them. I'm hooked. They are a great tool for enhancing the intensity of standard body weight strength exercises and also permit a ton of new multi-planar exercises to be performed. I'm a HUGE proponent of bodyweight strength exercises and the rings just add a lots of options to my extensive l
 
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When do you have your athletes do bodyweight strength exercises? Morning, afternoon, evening, before practice during practice, after practice, before a weight session, during a weight session, after a weight session?

We do body weight circuits at least 3x per week. They are done in the context of the workout. For field eventers and in some cases short sprinters, that may be the entire general conditioning component of the day; for long sprinters it would typically supplement their tempo running. It's almost always done on low-intensity days in fairly high volumes (12-40 sets of 10-15 reps or 20-45s).