On today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, we address the physical aspect of the preseason with this special edition of our “Training Camp” series. Joining host Keith Grabowski today will be Ryan Horton, Director of Applied Sports Science at Georgia Tech, D.J. Callender, Catapult Sports Director of Emerging Markets, and Yusef Shakir, two-time State Champion Head Coach at Manatee High School (FL). This dream team joins Grabowski to talk about how to appropriately push players during training camp, how much to condition players and how to make sure players are fully ready physically and mentally for the first game of the year as well as the rest of the regular season grind.

Show Notes:

2:10 Horton’s journey

4:40 Changes in preseason and off-season training

6:00 Training camp approach and catapult

8:34 Being smart in camp

11:12 How all the plans with coaches and data come together

12:49 Using the technology at a high school level

17:13 Key things to look at to make sure kids are performing optimally

21:10 Adjusting practice to simulate game tempo

24:12 More efficient special teams practice sessions

25:30 Proximity of drills at a practice

27:45 Contact monitoring

30:11 Conditioning at the end of practice

34:10 Conditioning as a mental/physical fatigue builder

36:14 Making Catapult affordable and accessible to high school teams

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