Announcement
Thursday - March 26th - meet day
Good morning everyone,
Let’s keep moving forward and simulate a meet today. Stay focused and improving. The MSHSL is holding on hope that we will have some form of a season. Keep praying if you haven’t already!
The girls’ uniforms came in earlier this week and were ready to be introduced at today’s conference indoor meet in Foley. The picture that I recently uploaded shows a spandex model (on the right) and a traditional model (on the left) that we purchased a certain number of each style. The front and back of both spandex and traditional tops are the same. The final design was picked by our senior girls after looking at 4-6 different models and designs.
As far as the boy’s uniforms are concerned, we will evaluate this summer whether to buy a new set or not.
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Sprinters, Hurdlers, Jumpers, Vaulters, Throwers:
Meet preparation:
VIDEO
Find a video of a college or Olympic athlete performing the event(s) that you plan to compete in this spring. Watch it and study the finer details (power knee, foot placement, arm angles, tall chest, etc.)
Lay on your back, close your eyes, take a minute or two to deep breathe, and using your 5 senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, & smell) I want you to imagine yourself performing the way that athlete did. Spend 1 -2 minutes on this. Use your mind to make it feel real for your body and perform the following while still laying on your back and pretend you are at the indoor conference meet today. Now spend at least 5-10 minutes on this on the following.
– In your mind, simulate packing your bag, checking your spikes the night before, riding the bus to Foley, making camp with your team, team lap and prayer, jogging more laps and other warm up drills with your event group.
– Perform your event. Imagine being that previous college/Olympic athlete and put yourself in their shoes (spikes) as you perform your event. If you are competing in a field event, perform the 3 jumps, throws, or moving the bar up in the HJ and PV.
– Also mental train your warm up and cool down. If you have another event, warm up, compete, cool down again. If you have concurrent events going on, plan how you will balance those multiple events.
Have fun with this, compete with yourself and stay focused for when this is real!
If possible do this on a soft surface. The tracks we compete on are softer than the roads we run on in practice.
Do your warm up and any drills that your coach would normally suggest. Make sure you are very warm and completely ready to perform. Keep your warm clothes on until ready to “compete”.
Sprinters, hurdlers: Mark out your distance and compete 1 time at 100% effort.
Throwers: Do you have anything 8 pounds (girls) or 12 pounds (boys) that you can throw?
Jumpers: Follow Jason’s suggestions for today -
Measure some Standing Long Jumps or Standing TJ. 3-4 of each like a meet.
In addition, they can do 2 sets of 10 of:
Squat jumps focusing on last step being short for higher vertical.
-Box jumps ( if they have a safe option for an elevated surface 12-24”)
-Scissor jumps – with one foot up on a 12-18” step or platform, push off the top foot, jumping as high as they can, switching feet on the way down in prep for next rep with opposite foot.
-20 meters of Repetitive take offs (same as Mon)
Vaulters: Stay safe and stay away from vaulting. :) Do run throughs like you would at a meet to get your steps down.
