Coach Murphree HSSCA 🏋

Our JV girls have lifted 10x already in-season and it’s only April. A lot of these girls are in 8th grade. A strong varsity career starts years before! Development > hype.

Muscles for miles! Great work by our XC/Distance squad with their in season lifts!

Our standard for HS girls on the TBDL is to get them to hit 225x3 reps prior to graduation. This only happens through coming to the WR consistently. For most HS, this is a solid display of strength. These two sophomores are close to that already due to coming since 8th grade. More often than not, our girls who show up more are pushing more than 225 and even into the 315 range.

One of my club sport athletes (high level club soccer) sophomores today told me that her club coach said “If you want to play at that D1 level, you need to get stronger/faster.” This club practices 4x/wk and then travels most weekends leaving 1-2 days off at most for 6+ months a year, not counting their school sport. That leaves very little time to “get stronger/faster.” The clubs that want to push kids to high levels, tell them what they need to do (outside of skill work) but don’t facilitate the necessary opportunities (free time) to fully develop physically speaking.

The ugly side of the private sector: A lot of coaches love getting a kid who is ALREADY A STUD ATHLETE (genetic freak) work with them so that they can post how athletic that kid is rather than actually developing that athlete/lesser athletic kid. Development > Hype.

These 5 girls had a game last night. These 5 girls hit a lift today. Lifting all off-season to not do anything in season is the typical trend most high school kids do. Don’t be like most HS kids. Why train to get better only to lose your gains ,speed and power once your sports starts. 1-2 sessions a wk is appropriate for in season development! Don’t get worse just because you’re in season!