Off-Season Conditioning

[Bassman]

I was just curious about what you do to keep active during the off-season. I just started Taekwon-Do this year and I am loving it.

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by Bassman

I was just curious about what you do to keep active during the off-season. I just started Taekwon-Do this year and I am loving it.

What off-season? Baseball runs from mid-February to the end of October, football runs from the end of August to mid-November and basketball runs from early November to mid-March.

[Bulldog]

I was thinking about cutting down to two cigars a day and only eating red meat five times a week.

[canadaump6]

Garth, just a question, but you must travel down south during the early months of your season to be umpiring in mid-February when you live in Spokane.

As for conditioning, I always say it's not what you do but how hard you do it that matters.

[briancurtin]

i dont officiate other sports, so i do have an off-season, in which i get back hard into my weightlifting and cardio routines 5-6 days a week. during the baseball season i lighten up on the weights because if i do squats with my full weight, i'll feel it for a few 2-3 days afterwards...something i dont want hindering me if i have a game within that range. upper body groups i dont really have to lighten up on during the season, but i do take things a bit lighter with them at the beginning of the season.

i dont add/remove anything for in-season/off-season, i just change the intensity of what i do (so far).
however, that may be changing -- i might try to start playing some pick-up basketball games at the gym if i can. running on the treadmill is nice but it doesnt have the intensity of running a full court, or even half court, basketball game.

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by canadaump6

Garth, just a question, but you must travel down south during the early months of your season to be umpiring in mid-February when you live in Spokane.

Depends on the year.

JUCO and college are playing then and when the weather is too rough, they just migrate a bit to the south....Richland, Kennewick area sometimes (about 130 miles away) or Lewiston, Idaho.

We are used to early season games being played in cold weather. The only problem is the occasional year when it's still snowing then.

Hell, even high school starts March 8 this year.

Winters here are not like they are back east or in the mid-west. The temperatures can equal the worst, but the amount of snow is piddling compared to when I lived near Lake Ontario.

[JJ]

My season ends about mid-October. I take two weeks to get my gear cleaned, sorted, packed up and put away (LOOK! ANOTHER SOCK!). From November 1st until January 1st I make repeated trips from the la-z-boy to the fridge to the loo to bed and back. After the first of the year I start on the treadmill 3 days a week. February 1st I pop in game tapes and call along with them (I change the calls I missed on the tape ). That gets the lunges and the timing going. The last week in February my buddies and I head for Florida for ten days of umping lower level (D1 & D2) games. That gets the "sea legs" back under me. Then I go back to Illinois and wait three weeks for the weather to break.

JJ

[fitump56]

Originally Posted by briancurtin

running on the treadmill is nice but it doesnt have the intensity of running a full court, or even half court, basketball game.

Crank that puppy up to 8mph and 7degree loft then come back and tell us about the treadmaill having a lack of intensity.

[fitump56]

Originally Posted by Bassman

I was just curious about what you do to keep active during the off-season. I just started Taekwon-Do this year and I am loving it.

Increase parallel back squate reps and sets for two-three weeks then vary loads for all Olympic lifts (and their variations). Nothing else changes.