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Monday, June 22, 2015
Howe athletes experience no 'Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer' station for 30 minutes." said West. The coaches split up the long-distance runners from the sprint runners. On Thursday, a group ran "the ladder" of 400 meters followed by 300, 200 and 100 meters. That particular run is not the most popular with the athletes. "You can do more stuff in the summer because you have more time." said West. "We're not on a time crunch, so we can work them up to two hours where during the school day you only get 45 minutes."
Howe athletes are putting down their X-Box controllers and picking up weights
The high school kids are encouraged to attend the first session which starts at 7:30 because it is a little more high intense. The junior high kids come later as the coaches slow things down in order to get them more acclimated to the lifting process. Most of the entering seventh graders are lifting for the first time.
Nat King Cole probably never envisioned lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer to be so athleticintense in North Texas. Back in 1963, the popular song was about bikinis hot dogs, beaches, and pretzels. That's nearly everything that will send a football coach over the edge from his players in 2015.
"Last year, we had 40 total coming last year and "We try to show them (junior high kids) how to now we're averaging about 60 per day." do the workout without heavy weights just to show them how to do a workout." said West. West says that the difference is the expectation of the athletes from the coaches. It's voluntary One benefit that the coaches receive from this is and not mandatory, but they set the expectations the ability to find out which kids are motivated that the kids should show up regularly. enough to attend the workouts.
The program of athletes working out with coaches in the summer is not a new concept, however, the attendance and participation level is new.
The program is not sport-specific due to University Interscholastic League rules. It's general strength and conditioning for athletes entering seventh grade through senior year.
"The attendance before Coach (Zack) Hudson got here was pretty bad." said assistant coach and football offensive coordinator Dale West.
"In August, you can tell which kids have been here and which ones haven't." said West. "First of all, you can tell by the condition that they're in. If they haven't been working, they're exhausted. The kids that show up, it's just "We'll do about a 45-minute weight workout and another day for them." then we'll go outside and do an agility station for continued on Page #12 about 30 minutes and then we'll do the running.
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