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Profile of a Young Athlete
Young athletes are physically developing, from early childhood to late adolescence. This means they have different capabilities for, and adaptations to, exercise and for this reason, young athlete training programs should not be just scaled down versions of adult training programs.
The fastest rate of growth occurs in the [...]
From Coaching Wrestling Successfully by Dan Gable
The first two or three days of practice should be learning experiences, more so for coaches than for athletes. Most coaches don’t realize this fact and take control right away, trying to teach their wrestlers too many things in too little time. What coaches should do during the [...]
Good leaders are made not born. If you have the desire and willpower, you can become an effective leader. Good leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience. This guide will help you through that process.
To inspire your workers into higher levels of teamwork, there are certain things you [...]
by lowsingle:
The best preseason conditioning that any wrestler can do is wrestling. To be great at anything you must train for that activity. If you want to be good at bench press then you need to bench press. If you want to be good at swimming then you must swim as much as [...]
If you want to be a better wrestler, there is nothing better than finding a good partner and wrestling in the off season. Every wrestler practices from November to February. The amount of improvements you make during that time are no where near the gaps you could be closing when everyone else is taking a [...]
By Jack Fisher
Editor of Texas Wrestling Magazine
Talking with football coaches, I find they labor under the myth that wrestling is an off-season sport that detracts from their program and does not support the goals of football. What are the goals of football? Strength, speed, endurance, quickness, coordination, balance and weight gain are [...]
Here’s a unique, fun, killer workout that you can do with a deck of cards and a training partner that will train every wrestling-specific muscle and get you in shape in a hurry. It’s great for something different to mix up your training workouts.
Directions:
* Use all of the cards (with the [...]
Due to the level of interest in organizing a reunion for persons associated with the Woodford County Wrestling Program, I have been doing some research and have put together the attached questionnaire to get things underway for a reunion event. I’ve done a great deal of talking or corresponding (on face book, email and phone) [...]
Wrestlers, more than anyone, know how difficult it can be to lose weight fast. The regular diets and exercise used for long-term weight loss simply won’t cut it when you need to drop five pounds in 5 days in order to compete in your usual weight class. Extreme diet and exercise changes guided by a [...]
Ben Stehura and Anthony Coleman enter year two as the coaching staff at Cleveland State. The Vikings are looking for a season of improvement and another year to buy in. You can watch the intense drills and conditioning Cleveland State is doing to prepare for their upcoming season on flowrestling.com.
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