Using Time

Geno Auriemma certainly makes it clear that he thinks stretching is a complete waste of time. How about taking a minute and look at other time wasters that have crept into our training methodology? How about foam rolling before workout as part of warm-up? A complete waste of time, in my book it is very similar to static stretching before workout, a calming not an activating effect. Think about it this way. If you roll for five minutes a day with your team as part of warm-up and you train five days a weeks, that is 25 minutes a week. 25 minutes that could be devoted to improving some significant aspect of their athletic development. Take it a little further. That is 100 minutes a month. If you train ten months a year that is 1,000 minutes! Think of all the ways you could better use that 1,000 minutes. Look at your workouts and do a through analysis of what you are doing, and why you are doing it. If you have one hour to train, like I do with my volleyball team, I want 60 minutes of total involvement, no fluff, no rolling on the floor doing mindless movements. Each of those 60 minutes should be another step toward greatness. Each step must have a purpose.