Getting in Shape to Ref

[Back In The Saddle]

Don't be practicing running backward, you might be tempted to do it during a game. Next time brandon89 is around, ask him what happens to refs that backpedal during games.

[budjones05]

Its not really about keeping in shape, but just getting prepared to know your rule books....watch a lot of games by good officials. There is really nothing you can do, but study. Thats how you prepare for a season

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by budjones05

Its not really about keeping in shape, but just getting prepared to know your rule books....watch a lot of games by good officials. There is really nothing you can do, but study. Thats how you prepare for a season

So...I'm just wasting my time in the gym? I should really be home memorizing the rule book?

[Splute]

P.S. I tried this method.... (reading the rule books 3 times before camp and NO running). Not a good idea for the body. I blew out my Quads... took two weeks to recover and I missed some valuable taping and instruction by not being able to Ref the scrimmages.

Running for endurance and sprints for real life on the floor.... unless Nike has new improved shoes that makes us run faster, jump higher and always make the right call..... ? two out of three?

[bbref]

Thanks for all the input. I see running is the number 1 answer. I believe I will go with yoga for flexibility and injury prevention. Keep doing the suicides minus backwards (I can see where a broken tailbone could happen). Couple of miles per day of running?? May be do some 1 on 1 with my daughter.

Thanks all.

[bgtg19]

Originally Posted by bbref

I see running is the number 1 answer. I believe I will go with yoga for flexibility and injury prevention.

I agree that running is the best thing you can do to "get in shape" for officiating. As others have suggested, add variety to the kinds of running you are doing. (Run fast at times; run for distance/endurance at other times; etc.)

I write here to add that, whether or not you are participating in yoga, the most important thing you can do for flexibility and injury prevention is to stretch properly. For the most part, this stretching is done after your run, when your muscles are warmed up. Good luck.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Splute

unless Nike has new improved shoes that makes us run faster, jump higher and always make the right call..... ?

Yes, they do. It's the new Jon Diebler autographed model. It also makes your lunch, washes your car and trims your nose hairs.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Splute

P.S. I tried this method.... (reading the rule books 3 times before camp and NO running). Not a good idea for the body. I blew out my Quads... took two weeks to recover and I missed some valuable taping and instruction by not being able to Ref the scrimmages.

Running for endurance and sprints for real life on the floor.... unless Nike has new improved shoes that makes us run faster, jump higher and always make the right call..... ? two out of three?

You are thinking of the late, great PF Flyers.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

You are thinking of the late, great PF Flyers.

When I was a kid in my old neighborhood back in the 19th century, we all wore PF Flyers. Some kid moved into the area and brought his Keds. We beat him up a few times, then he begged his mom to get him the "right" shoes. I think he grew up to be a coach.

BTW - the "PF" stood for "Posture Foundation". Just another piece of useless trivia I know. My wife says my head is "a repository of crap".

also BTW - I even know how big Scrooge McDuck's money bin is and also what those elliptical chrome holes on the sides of old Chryslers were called.

[blindzebra1]

[QUOTE=Mark Padgett]When I was a kid in my old neighborhood back in the 19th century, we all wore PF Flyers. Some kid moved into the area and brought his Keds. We beat him up a few times, then he begged his mom to get him the "right" shoes. I think he grew up to be a coach.

BTW - the "PF" stood for "Posture Foundation". Just another piece of useless trivia I know. My wife says my head is "a repository of crap".

also BTW - I even know how big Scrooge McDuck's money bin is and also what those elliptical chrome holes on the sides of old Chryslers were called.



their is a definite need for medication for you.