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Oct 10, 2011
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I don’t think college coaches are allowed to require future players to do specific workouts. I’m not certain though. It’s just what we’ve been told and I’ve never looked it up. Last summer she received a “suggested” workout, but they were careful not to directly require anything.

You may be correct, but they have to check in once a week to see if they've been doing what's suggested:)
 
May 30, 2013
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DD was invited to tryout for JV this season as a 7th grader.
In order to do so, she had to pass a series of "Athletic Performance" tests,
which included a 1 mile run.

The time to beat was 8:21.
(She passed with a 7:50)

8:21 isn't all that fast for a collegiate athlete,
no matter the height/weight.

I'm 47 5'10" 190 and ran DD's training runs with her.
and then continued on (at a lesser pace 9.0-9.5min/mile) to complete 3 additional miles each time.

It can be done, but if you are not a practiced "runner",
it will take a month or so, running 3-4x a week,
to get "in shape".
 
Oct 10, 2011
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DD was definitely faster in middle school than she is now.
On a side note... The coach says if you are getting your times on a treadmill, it has to be at a 2% incline. Just thought I'd throw that in...
 

Cannonball

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Feb 25, 2009
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All of this depends upon a lot of stuff. For example, when are they going to test that mile? At the beginning or end of the first set of workouts 1st day or will they wait until mid or the end of the week?

DD called it "hell week" each fall when she reported. As an incoming freshman, she was given her times etc. to make and simply told, here are the workouts we would like for you to do and it would really be in your best interest to have done some of this when you report. Since I am a coach, I translated that to my dd. Do this and you might survive. Don't and you'll hate life. We already had a trainer for her through her TB Team and so, she was pushing tires, pulling tires in a harness, lifting every type of weight including kettle balls. Then, she showed up. Coach gave them the first week off so that the Freshmen could acclimate themselves to campus. Don't count on that for other schools. During this time, the other girls told those that didn't work out that they were in big trouble. So, they tried to get ready in less than a week. There were a lot of tears and anger. You do know that the head trainer does the workouts and they often don't communicate with the coach. So, they don't know who the "stars" are. LOL They also tend to punish the other girls if a teammate shows up not prepared to go.

On the first day, the trainer did mostly speed stuff and agility. They lifted the next day. On the third day, he had broken all of the girls down into "bigs," "mediums" and smalls. DD was happy she was classified as a "big" and so, she had to do the mile in, I believe under 10 minutes. She lost her enthusiasm for being a "big" when she found out that in the weight room, "bigs" had so much more weight that they were expected to handle. They set a "base" for everything. That would mean for ever speed drill, every distance run, ever weight at ever station and then, the "goals" were set. You would not believe how intense the weight room can get.

DD was asked to demonstrate a "proper plank." She did well and had been doing planks. So, the weight guy told his assistant, add 25 lbs. They put a 25 pound plate on her hip. She handled it. So, he said put another 10 on. She was never allowed to do planks again without some weight and usually 50 lbs on her hips. I have posted here before but I'll say it again, I hate what happened to her body. She has massive biceps and thighs. She was very good. She now is out of softball.

DD was so scared of "hell week" that she never let herself stop working out in the summer with the strength coach from her college. I think I posted here that she almost died one year. They had to run a few miles, jump in to the pool and swim 2 miles and then run the stairs in a given time. She cramped in the pool and went under. That God one of the girls was a lifeguard and dove in to get her.

I'll wrap up by saying that after her freshman year and even though she hated "hell week," she thought it was the greatest team bonding experience her team could have. When you face something like that, it makes you have to come together. I am positive that she wouldn't change on minute of it and is so thankful for not only her coach but her strength coach. After that first year when everyone was negative, the next three years, the girls all took the freshmen under their wings and tried to get them through this week.

I apologize for rambling.

Edited to add:

I forgot to mention that where we live, the humidity is very high. It is also very hot. So, our heat index with that humidity can easily be triple digits. For example, today it was 103 with our heat index in the 112 range according to one dad at our camp today. DD was told to get out of the air conditioning and work in the heat since "hell week" would be outside. A few of the young ladies were treadmill ladies. Not good.
 
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Sep 29, 2014
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^^^^ This is most college programs. Friends son went D1 football, they barely saw the coach for the first few weeks (last summer semester that everyone on team attended), their time was spend with the strength and conditioning coach friend said the strength and conditioning coach knew them much better than anyone else, until game prep planning started.
 
Oct 10, 2011
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Great post Cannonball! I figured most schools would break them down into different categories because not everyone was built for speed. DD would be in the big group and fortunately is fairly fast for her size but not good with distance. Right now she's a little under 9 min but always needs the inhaler close by. She absolutely loves weightlifting though.
 

Cannonball

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Great post Cannonball! I figured most schools would break them down into different categories because not everyone was built for speed. DD would be in the big group and fortunately is fairly fast for her size but not good with distance. Right now she's a little under 9 min but always needs the inhaler close by. She absolutely loves weightlifting though.

Players with some health concern, at least at DD's school, have to meet with the trainer beforehand, make sure that the know where or have an emergency inhaler and then walked through what the workouts will be like. This is done that first week where the freshmen are getting acclimated to school.
 

JJS

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It's really hard to find any good charts unless you are talking about professionals or serious amateurs. Most of what I can find is similar to what was quoted earlier. Also, I don't think most of these young ladies are sitting around all the time eating bon bons LOL. Not with the travel ball schedules I've seen!
Looks like the passing 2 mile time is 18:48 for the Army. She needs to turn that in a couple weeks from now.

You know I've really been just giving you a hard time... Tell her to keep working hard, and she will get there. I am always amazed at how much our girls can accomplish if we expect it of them, and they expect it of themselves.
 

Greenmonsters

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Feb 21, 2009
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IME, coaches will show a good degree of flexibility for a player who regularly and safely makes the trip from home-to-home in game situations in 15 to 25 seconds.
 

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