Amazing post! In Jiu-Jitsu we suffer from traditional warm ups.
One warm up game that I like to use is putting the players on a Guard Passing situation but not letting them using their arms in any way. This reduces the intensity of the exercise (allowing them to properly warm up their body) and makes them work towards an objective and problem solve.
Thank you for your reply, which is one of the first to all my writing (you will be in my heart forever :-)
I can see your tactic working well, with the intensity turned down. My sport (flag football) allows for this as well, since it is a very-low-impact sport anyway.
Thanks to you for sharing so much valuable information.
I usually train a group of about 10 to 16 year olds (I am 16 myself). Occasionally I also train adults but it is not consistent (although I will soon start working officially as a coach so this may change).
I have also been applying CLA and DL with myself and my friends who form a small competition group with me.
Rolf, Great post. How do you contrast practice warm up with pre competition warm up? Asking because I agree with your post, but I think there's a time and a place for ritual and the comfort of a process-particularly before competition.
Hi Jordan, thank you so much for your reply! You are one of the first I can interact with since I started writing about what I love on Substack :-)
I adjust my approach to the age group of the team I coach in competition. If they are younger than about 13, I found just letting them play and invent their own impromptu games in a corner of the gym or on the field as effective to calm their nerves. In a way, the ritual is that they can enjoy free play with their friends. There might be the kid who does not warm up that much that way, so I watch and work with them a little extra with some joyful yet challenging activity away from the group.
For the older kids, we usually pick up some practice warm-up activities that include problem-solving, variability and challenge, i.e. things they know well how to do. So, for them it is competition = practice. When choosing activities I worry a lot that the level of challenge is right, because I do not want them to fail too often pre-competition.
For adults, my approach is essentially the same as for the older kids, but there the practice activities are different anyway. For example, many of them want time for an individual warm-up, and they spend the 10-15 mins on something they choose for themselves, individually. But again, this is what they do in practice, too.
Amazing post! In Jiu-Jitsu we suffer from traditional warm ups.
One warm up game that I like to use is putting the players on a Guard Passing situation but not letting them using their arms in any way. This reduces the intensity of the exercise (allowing them to properly warm up their body) and makes them work towards an objective and problem solve.
Hello Grappler ;-)!
Thank you for your reply, which is one of the first to all my writing (you will be in my heart forever :-)
I can see your tactic working well, with the intensity turned down. My sport (flag football) allows for this as well, since it is a very-low-impact sport anyway.
May I ask which age group you coach?
Thanks to you for sharing so much valuable information.
I usually train a group of about 10 to 16 year olds (I am 16 myself). Occasionally I also train adults but it is not consistent (although I will soon start working officially as a coach so this may change).
I have also been applying CLA and DL with myself and my friends who form a small competition group with me.
Rolf, Great post. How do you contrast practice warm up with pre competition warm up? Asking because I agree with your post, but I think there's a time and a place for ritual and the comfort of a process-particularly before competition.
Hi Jordan, thank you so much for your reply! You are one of the first I can interact with since I started writing about what I love on Substack :-)
I adjust my approach to the age group of the team I coach in competition. If they are younger than about 13, I found just letting them play and invent their own impromptu games in a corner of the gym or on the field as effective to calm their nerves. In a way, the ritual is that they can enjoy free play with their friends. There might be the kid who does not warm up that much that way, so I watch and work with them a little extra with some joyful yet challenging activity away from the group.
For the older kids, we usually pick up some practice warm-up activities that include problem-solving, variability and challenge, i.e. things they know well how to do. So, for them it is competition = practice. When choosing activities I worry a lot that the level of challenge is right, because I do not want them to fail too often pre-competition.
For adults, my approach is essentially the same as for the older kids, but there the practice activities are different anyway. For example, many of them want time for an individual warm-up, and they spend the 10-15 mins on something they choose for themselves, individually. But again, this is what they do in practice, too.
May I ask what your strategy is, Jordan?