August 2002
GOAL SETTING - ARE YOU READY FOR THE FOLKSTYLE SEASON
Now is the time to develop some pre-season goals (as if there is a
pre-season anymore). What would you like to be able to bench, squat,
deadlift, hang clean, power clean? How many push ups will you be able to do
at the beginning of the season? Will you be able to run 2 miles under 12
minutes...work with your coach to develop some pre-season fitness goals?
Start to think about how you want to finish the season. Do you want to be a Regional Champ? Sectional Champ? State Place Winner? State Champion?
Set a long term and set some interim goals to make sure you are making
progress towards that long-term goal. Make sure you review your progress at least once every couple of weeks. The key is to set a specific goal. Don't set a goal to wrestle well. That particular goal is not easily evaluated to see if you achieved this goal.
Set a goal to win a State Championship then set interim goals to win a
couple interim tournaments. Make sure you work hard to qualify for each
stage of your year-end tournaments. Make sure you don't overlook your
qualifying tournaments to get to the state finals.
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Look for the new videos to be added to the site as well. Cael Sanderson
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NUTRITION:
Never underestimate the importance of proper nutrition on your performance. This goes for match day and the proper way to cut weight. Match day meals should be carefully planned. Don't just eat whatever the tournament is selling...bring your own cooler of food to make sure you eat well. I always ate similar meals because I knew how they settled in my stomach.
Attention coaches - my coach had a health teacher come in and talk to us
each year about proper nutrition...one year the teacher took a cheese
burger, fries, a milky way candy bar, and a large coke with ice and put them in a blender...it was pretty effective in getting me to think about how nasty that would look in my stomach. Then the teacher took bananas,
strawberries, ice and juice in a blender and showed us how it looked...something that we should eat. More specific meal plans will be
included in next months issue.
BODY FAT TESTING:
One of the reason my high school coach was so successful is we were body fat tested each year. We would have an idea what weight we could safely go down to. We were body fat tested via two methods - under water weighing and skin fold testing. Now there are so many choices like digital scales (we have them on our site) that can do a body fat testing in about 2 minutes. The reason it takes about two minutes is because you need to enter some information about an athlete. You can easily test a complete team in an hour or so...no need to give up valuable practice time to do body fat testing. The advantage to owning your own equipment is you can do the testing through out the season.
Skin fold testing can be done by coaches as well. The skin fold test depends upon the skill of the person doing the testing. You can easily grab muscle, which will be counted as fat. Look for some more research on body fat testing in the next couple months.
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SHARPEN YOUR PENCILS OR DUST OFF YOUR CALCULATORS
Since school is about to begin, I thought I would give you a little
mathematical puzzle you could share with your friends and wrestlers...Pick the number of days per week you are going to train a week. Double that number. Now add 5 to that number. Take the result and multiply it by 50. If you already had your birthday add 1752, if not subtract 1751. After you get this number subtract the four-digit year you were born (e.g. 1984). The result is amazing...the first digit is how many times you were going to wrestle a week and the last two digits are your age.
Source: Wall Street Journal - Author Sharon Begley
Send us your mathematical brainteasers to us and if we publish - we will
send you a free IllinoisWrestling.Com or WrestlingGear.Com T-shirt.
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As always, let us know what you are up to or if you have something you would like us to highlight on our web site...
Good luck - remember to set your goals and work hard to achieve them...
-Jeff Pape
Owner/President - WrestlingGear.Com, LTD
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