conditioning

[wannabelaxplaya]

what are good things to do to get in shape

[Dadabhoy_Muzzi]

Running is a really good way to get into shape.

[franks2089]

Run and look at some of the other threads

[slinkyspine]

swim bike run TRIATHLONS and training for them do real quick biking does legs siming arms and some legs runing core and legs

[LoveableME]

Run and weight train. you dont need any machines because those are worse for you for sports. Also, if you're young, take it easy because working out at early ages stunts your puberty

[marflax33]

Swim like there is no tommorow. thats how i get in shape at least. have fun lol :thumbsup:

[3rdPersonPlural]

I posted this reply to someone who was hopig to find a way to improve team speed a few months back. Hill climbing is still the key to mid four second speed in the 40.

"Hill climbs. If you do this right your team will be faster and quicker than a team that just runs wind sprints or cross country runs.

You gotta use the hill right, though. First thing you do is get every player to sprint up, and have an assistant count how many steps each guy takes. I flat guarantee you that your fastest guys will always have the fewest steps to the top. Then give each player a goal 5 or 10% below their step count. They'll be leaping awkwardly up the hill at first, but this improves their accelleration.

Lacrosse players, particularly d-men, benefit greatly from being able to run laterally as fast as everyone runs forward. Run 'em up and down the hill facing left, then facing right. Remember the old football drill, Karioka (sp?)? The back leg alternates behind and ahead of the front leg? Make them do that, both up and down the hill. You build lateral speed and stability going up, and lateral quickness going down.

Quickness has two components: accelerating and stopping. You build the acceleration by getting the players to get up the hill in fewer steps, and you improve the stopping by running them up and down backwards. If your players can go from full chat to dead stop in five feet less than your opponents, that's an open shot every time. Running up hills backward is painful, and running down is even more so, but the results are worth it."

[Trilax03]

jumping rope is good and yeah swimming also...check the other threads on this...

[NateA]

Stairs..they can be your bestfriend for conditioning

[regulate34]

i run and bike with my dad but ialways run to the school to to play wall ball but its only a 10 min run so i run around the feilds their for like 30 min
their is also this loop by my house call houston trails and its a 4 km loop up and down hills and it all thru the bush but a beateb path and i run that in 20 min with my dad (he is 50 and he is in in-credibal shape)

[mmlaxplaya17]

run run run run and oh yeah did i mention run

when ever u get a chance in try to to at least a mile jog every other day i personally like to run 5 miles every 2 days

[wannabelaxplaya]

i knew running was a good way but what kind of sprints do yall do..i do ladders and 10 100s 8 80s 6 60s 4 40s 2 20s

[GBaschski]

I posted this reply to someone who was hopig to find a way to improve team speed a few months back. Hill climbing is still the key to mid four second speed in the 40.

"Hill climbs. If you do this right your team will be faster and quicker than a team that just runs wind sprints or cross country runs.

You gotta use the hill right, though. First thing you do is get every player to sprint up, and have an assistant count how many steps each guy takes. I flat guarantee you that your fastest guys will always have the fewest steps to the top. Then give each player a goal 5 or 10% below their step count. They'll be leaping awkwardly up the hill at first, but this improves their accelleration.

Lacrosse players, particularly d-men, benefit greatly from being able to run laterally as fast as everyone runs forward. Run 'em up and down the hill facing left, then facing right. Remember the old football drill, Karioka (sp?)? The back leg alternates behind and ahead of the front leg? Make them do that, both up and down the hill. You build lateral speed and stability going up, and lateral quickness going down.

Quickness has two components: accelerating and stopping. You build the acceleration by getting the players to get up the hill in fewer steps, and you improve the stopping by running them up and down backwards. If your players can go from full chat to dead stop in five feet less than your opponents, that's an open shot every time. Running up hills backward is painful, and running down is even more so, but the results are worth it."

I ran up the big hill yesterday doing straight sprints, karaokes both ways, and back peddling...talk about pain.
I could feel my 40 time dropping, though. :lol:

[chris818181]

I run up and down a hill at my house 10 times straight, the hill is about 12 feet in height, but its like a 70 degree angle, and theres no grass. When I'm done it makes my legs feel like jelly.

[mmlaxplaya17]

joging up hill is really hard but the funpart is after you get to the top u take the easy waydown also jump roping if you really get a rythm while jumpropin and u start to work up a sweat its really good for you

[3rdPersonPlural]

I ran up the big hill yesterday doing straight sprints, karaokes both ways, and back peddling...talk about pain.
I could feel my 40 time dropping, though. :lol:

GB, next time you're on the hill, count how many strides it takes to get to the top. Then set a goal to knock that number down by10%.

You'll feel awkward and look dumb leaping up the hill like a gazelle imitating a pack mule, but you'll feel the burn in places you don't usually feel it. You've reached your goal when you can power up that hill with 90% of the steps you took at first and feel smooth.

Reach your goal, and I promise you that you'll have a whole new top gear. That gear that you use when someone has a cut off angle on you in the open field and you say to yourself, "Oh yeah?" and you're past him.

That gear is nice to have, but remember that shortening your zero-to-full-chat time as well as your full-chat-to-zero distance is what will distinguish you in the box. Those backward hills going down will help with the former, going up helps the latter.

Let me know how it turns out.

[lax4life6]

hes my hockey off ice practice. keep in mind this is 4 nights a week before we even get on teh ice.

warm up- Mile, agility ladder drills, 100 pushups. 5 sets of 20, 160 situps 4 sets of 40, 2 minute wall sits, 400 wall jumps ( bounce on balls of feet and reach upwards),20 squats, 20 sumo squats, sprints, 1 mile.

it takes about an hour.

[justlaxin484]

runnning and lifting 3 times a week

[laxwithboys]

what size hill would you use for something like this? :nofear:

[wannabelaxplaya]

there are no hills where i live..all flat

lax4life.youre team better be good to do all of that..my team was city champs and our pre-practice "workouts" were about 20 mins

[EHSLAX12]

hockey is my thing. 3 laps on an olympic sized ring (ice and pavement), stretch, 3 more laps. 20 suicides in reverse, blue-line kariokas. after i do soccer situps and pushups, 6 sets of 35 each. it works really well. and i also lift

[lonestarlax]

If there are no hills in your area, you can substitute a parking garage or stairs. In college we used to have to run these stairs that ran over some railroad tracks. They were killer. If the weather was bad, we had the stairs in a 10 story dorm to run. It's amazing how much explosive power you get from doing this.

[3rdPersonPlural]

what size hill would you use for something like this? :nofear:

Select a hill, or a section of a hill, that takes you 10 to 20 seconds to get up.

[lax4life6]

there are no hills where i live..all flat

lax4life.youre team better be good to do all of that..my team was city champs and our pre-practice "workouts" were about 20 mins

well our team was a banch of a-holes last year who like didnt hit or anything but we were all in shape. we did that twice a week. this year its gonna be 4 times a week. our coach is pretty crazy