[Young Henry Man]

Right you are. If kids lifted year round, then you wouldn't have to worry about soreness as much. They would get in the routine of working their sets of muscles and constantly be improving. In saying that, you wouldn't want to do 8x2 of 90% on Bench Press, Power CLean and Squats on game day, but be smart in the workout you do.

Karl Malone and Ben Wallace are two NBA guys that were very public about their pregame workouts; the day of! Why people believe that getting a good sweat going before your game on that day is a bad thing, is beyond me. I'm not saying do the 300 Workout, but to get a good sweat going a few hours before kick-off, tip off or the first pitch is not going to kill you. In fact, it will probably do the exact opposite and make you more alive. I know it did with with me.

Workout, as in:

1) A light lift if it is part of what you have been doing all along.

2) Running a few pass routes,stance and starts, etc to get a little sweat going.

3) Team walk-throughs that might include running plays on air @ half speed or less, once again, getting a little sweat going and the blood pumping.

Tell you what, try laying on your butt all day long without moving on game day and see how that works for you. I believe I also that trying to lift a house on game day wasn't very smart. The point is: On game day, it isn't a mortal sin to get up, get moving,get the blood flowing and work up light sweat. Is it a must? No. Is it going to hold your performance back come kickoff? No.

Neither of those would hamper performance on game day. Go to any college, any sport an

I am not sure where you stand. You say workout first then retreat back to walkthroughs. My only point is lifting on gameday is not smart at all. You don't want your body repairing itself at gametime because you lifted earlier that day.