Would 30 days over several weeks be more accurate?
Most interscholastic and intercollegiate athletes also have a life, subjects to study, sports in which they participate, family obligations, girl or boy friends, jobs, vacations, illnesses, etc.
More importantly they have institutional strength and conditioning programs [ from this point training programs and strength and conditioning programs will be used interchangeably] that are mandatory, regardless of the time of the year, and they are very protective of their programs and how they train their athletes.
My experiences of their training programs include some plyometric and ladder or spot training [good for speed and agility] but typically their programs are focused on raw conditioning and strength! Check out the charts on their walls. Typically Olympic lifts and who can lift the most weight at certain body weights. The concentration is on strength training. Increases in strength gets the “juice” moving in most coaches!
I think most assume the myth that increases in strength will significantly increase speed and power. In many instances, I have observed the opposite. The athletes speed does not change or they get slower. How about your experiences? On the field or court, I’ll stake my future on speed and power!
Unless a speed and power trainer is brought into most interscholastic or intercollegiate programs for eight to ten weeks, or their focus is on speed and power training for that period of time, speed and power will not significantly change!
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