[Football24_7]

Happy--

In addition, your 5 day schedule still does not give the student-athlete an adequate chance for their muscles to heal. The agility drills would be better placed on Monday/Friday as opposed to taking up 2 potential rest days.

Then I guess the majority of Div. 1 programs out there know nothing about giving THEIR athletes "an adequate chance for their muscles to blah, blah, blah."

There is a principle in strength and conditioning that says for every rep of a 'push' there should be a 'pull.'

There is nothing in the literature that says it is detrimental to the development of the muscle group if these two different exercises are done on the SAME muscle group on SUCCESSIVE days.

This is similar to the idea that doing AGILITY work involving a muscle group that was worked on the day before somehow "hurts" the recovery of that muscle.

So, by your way of thinking, Michael Jordan (and virtually every other NBA player today) is doing something wrong when they lift (resistance work) one day, then PLAY the next (NBA teams play basically every other day)??? Not at all! The muscles they used the day before in resistance work are actually BENEFITING from the ELONGATION in the muscle fibers they're getting through shooting, running, cutting, jumping, etc.

Further, CORE STRENGTH (abs, lower back, hip flexors) are made up of a type of muscle fiber that is EXTREMELY resilient and actually BENEFITS from less than 48-hours recovery between workouts (evidenced by the fact that these muscles don't "grow" like other muscle groups with exhaustive work).

I've done a "little" work on this stuff in my past.

Hillbilly (no need for anyone on here to have a "chip" on their shoulder towards someone with such a complimentary nickname like your's huh, by the way?), wondering what exactly is YOUR background in strength and conditioning and human kinesthesiology/sports science?