http://www.ncsasports.org/blog/2009/06/01/track-and-field-summer-training/ The college athletic recruiting process can be extremely difficult. Finding the right athletic scholarship offer is extremely idfficult. NCSA specializes in help student-athletes find the right college fit. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:09:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.ncsasports.org/blog/2009/06/01/track-and-field-summer-training/comment-page-1/#comment-12547 Wheels Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:54:30 +0000 http://blog.ncsasports.org/?p=1736#comment-12547 I strongly concur with Billy's recommendation concerning rest & recovery for high school track & CC athletes; his reasoning and suggestions are excellent. To drill down a bit, not only is a period of rest & recovery important to avoid creating a major injury from a minor one, I suggest another, more subtle reason for the rest period. Usually, a high school athlete's body has not yet attained its full physical maturity & growth. So, as a high school athlete trains his body and thus causes continuous microscopic damage to the muscle groups that are loaded during training episodes, the body uses precious repair proteins and other metabolic resources to not only fix the damage, but to provoke the loaded muscle groups to be stronger in combination with increased endurance - the actual benefits of training. However, training a body still straining to reach maturity creates a colossal demand on many of the same nutritional & metabolic resources expended during training episodes required for physical growth, as well. Give that high school, immature body an opportunity to repare the damage, as well as continue to grow with a meaningful rest and recovery period. As a side, but related factor: notice that most track & CC camps begin in middle to late June or even early July, demonstrating that most coaches appreciate the foregoing recommendations, as well. There have been many exhausted athletes attending summer programs that were not recruited because of that exhaustion. I know; I missed more than a few when I was recruiting sprinters and hurdlers for Lewis University. I strongly concur with Billy’s recommendation concerning rest & recovery for high school track & CC athletes; his reasoning and suggestions are excellent. To drill down a bit, not only is a period of rest & recovery important to avoid creating a major injury from a minor one, I suggest another, more subtle reason for the rest period. Usually, a high school athlete’s body has not yet attained its full physical maturity & growth. So, as a high school athlete trains his body and thus causes continuous microscopic damage to the muscle groups that are loaded during training episodes, the body uses precious repair proteins and other metabolic resources to not only fix the damage, but to provoke the loaded muscle groups to be stronger in combination with increased endurance – the actual benefits of training. However, training a body still straining to reach maturity creates a colossal demand on many of the same nutritional & metabolic resources expended during training episodes required for physical growth, as well. Give that high school, immature body an opportunity to repare the damage, as well as continue to grow with a meaningful rest and recovery period. As a side, but related factor: notice that most track & CC camps begin in middle to late June or even early July, demonstrating that most coaches appreciate the foregoing recommendations, as well. There have been many exhausted athletes attending summer programs that were not recruited because of that exhaustion. I know; I missed more than a few when I was recruiting sprinters and hurdlers for Lewis University.

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