[Jay Turner]

Jay Turner on June 26, 2004 at 1:04 am #9473

I have a couple of athletes who are planning on playing volleyball this fall. Volleyball "conditioning" begins in two weeks. These athletes told me they still wanna lift even though they will partiipate in the conditioning. However, their volleyball days run from 9am-noon, an hour break in between, then from 1pm-4pm. They told me if it was ok with me, they'd like to go to the weight room during their noon break from volleyball and do their lifting before going back at 1pm.

My question is, would this be too much for them, or could they get away with it? Thoughts?

[fabio]

fabio on June 26, 2004 at 2:10 am #29775

depends how tough and tiring the conditioning can be. At my school, a lot of my friends that are girls play volleyball and from what they tell me they do a lot of distance (mile runs) and agility work along with technqiue etc. If your athletes are well conditioned enough (which I assume they are) then they shouldn't have a problem with it.

If I were you, I would try what they had planned out one day. Talk to them the next day and if they say they felt alright and it didn't kill them, then continue to do it. If they didn't respond to well from it, then move it to when condtioning is over, but have it start at 5 so they can have an hour to rest up before lifting.