With the beginning College football comes long anticipated excitement for the early powerhouse match ups, first look at new players, and realizing what you can expect your favorite team to accomplish. Sadly, in recent years, what you also can expect is a handful of injuries. More evident in preseason camp than opening day, injuries due to failure of preparation is seen in the countless non-contact ACL tears, Achillese tendon ruptures, and various strains, are more prevalent now than ever. Lets look at why?
Diagnosing Football
A typical play last all of 6 seconds. In between you have about 30 or more seconds to recover. This would make football a very alactic sport. Expanding on this system would require a higher fast-twitch capacity. That would mean high intensity loaded bouts of 10 seconds or less with approximately 30 or so seconds to recover. You can build this by repeated sprints until you are unable to stay below anaerobic threhold when recovering. Eventually reaching to about 40+ sprints in a session. Not the typical 10-15.
Missing the Boat
Anymore, the majority of work you see year round is constant glycolitic ESD until the athletes can no longer move. The major downfall to this ESD is that you can expand on this capacity for only 4 weeks before it produces a diminished return. This system is also rarely used on the playing feild. Best time for development would the weeks leading up to the season.
Conclusion
The main contributor to injuries in most sports is fatigue. When your tired you compensate and get sloppy. So avoid the heavy breathing and playing your way into shape. Get your energy systems in line and take care of it so your athletes are ready to dominate before the first snap!
Nice post. Someone's paying attention. :)
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