Good Meeting Today

Gentlemen -

Good meeting today - for those who were not in attendance I will post the meeting notes below. Our mission has been defined, as have the performance objectives. This blog and the entries that I made to document my personal work outs provide a model that you can use (or not) to document your own training sessions. A great leader once said "Tell them what you need done, then get the hell out of their way. You will be amazed by the results." I need you to decide upon a team name, create a team blog, and record your daily work outs. Dare to be great! Captain

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Meeting Hand-Out Tuesday November 25, 2008

Sacred Heart University Men’s Soccer Program
Post Season Training Program – Phase 1 Overview

Team Meeting:

Mission Statement: By working together we will develop, implement, monitor, evaluate, and adapt a complete total body training system that will assist each SHU Men’s Soccer player in realizing his individual athletic potential by identifying weakness, implementing corrective strategies, and adding functional strength and fitness. We will become strong, fast and durable. We will incorporate technical training to improve and perfect our skills on and off the ball. We will train together and in small groups, learning to work together as a team, to communicate effectively, and to motivate each other to realize success. We will train harder, smarter, and with more intensity than any other team in our division. WE will become the strongest, fastest, fittest, and most technical team in our division.

Performance Objectives:

Divide into teams of 3-4 players. Each team will decide upon a name and designate a team leader.
Each team will develop a team blog spot.
Each team member will use the team blog as a personal training journal, and record their individual work out entries daily.
Team leaders will monitor the blog and insure that all entries are made.
The team leader will also be responsible for insuring effective communication between his team, the team captains - Jaspir and Felipe, and the coaching staff.
When possible each team will train together.

Summary - All individual work outs will be recorded in the team blog. The team leaders will monitor entries for their group members. The team captains will monitor progress for their groups. The coaching staff will monitor all of the above.

Phase I – Post Season Conditioning

Our primary goal for the post season will be stability, flexibility, and symmetry. Each athlete will undergo the functional movement screen (FMS). Based on the score each player will be prescribed an individual program of corrective exercises (IPOCE). The IPOCE will be done in addition to the GPP (general physical preparation) and SSP (soccer specific preparation) training.

IPOCE – the corrective exercise will be done before, during or after your GPP and SSP training. IPOCE will be progressive – for example – if you have a hip stability asymmetry – you will start with a basic exercise set, then progress to an advanced exercise set once you develop the necessary strength and stability.

Shot Gun IPOCE – many if not all of the exercises you will be performing during the first 8 weeks of post season training will improve core strength, rotational stability, and lower body stability. Where possible the IPOCE exercise will be incorporated into your regular work out, and therefore will be done by everyone, regardless of FMS scores. This is called the “shotgun” approach to applying corrective strategies – you hit everybody with the training whether they need it or not.

GPP - We will be using body weight, dumbbells, and kettlebells to provide load. We will be using circuit training and interval training to provide a balanced strength, flexibility, and endurance work out. This training will supplement your IPOCE and prepare you for Phase II – strength, speed, and power. Our goal is to have a strong, straight, stable frame upon which we can add strength and fitness.

SSP – Rodrigo will be providing technical soccer training drills designed to improve and perfect your touch on the ball. These will be used to supplement or replace dynamic warm ups and agility training.

Today’s Meeting Goal – divide into teams, review objectives, set up schedule for FMS team testing – I will post a testing schedule on the SHU Soccer Strength team blog and create an online sign up sheet. We will schedule an hour for each team. To be considered for the team challenge competition each team must schedule a screening time.

Post Season Training - Starts on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. GPP and SSP – regardless of FMS testing – GPP training will be core intensive and done with light to moderate weights. No heavy lifting, very limited machine work – dumbbell work, cable work, push ups, pull ups, Turkish Get Ups with and without weight. The work outs and training schedule will be posted on the team blogspot – http://shusoccerstrength.blogspot.com/ .

Team Challenge Competition – decide upon a team name and create a team blog. Got to the SHU Soccer Strength Blogspot and hit the “create blog” tab on the title bar. Add your team members and invite barrosoj@sacredheart.edu , nunesr@sacredheart.edu , ggomola@aol.com to your blog. Review and perform the Black Friday weekend work out. Have each team member record their work outs on the team blog. If you have any questions post them on the SHU Soccer Strength Team Blog. If you are not listed as a team member join the blog.

Your coaches and captains will review the blogs on Monday and decide the challenge winner. The blogs will be judged on 2 variables – the blog design and the content. The blog design must include a team photo. Every team member must contribute content to the blog or the team will be disqualified for this challenge. The content must include the a work out summary. Several versions of appropriate work out summaries are included in the SHU Strength Blog. The winning team will be awarded a Gymboss Timer.