Summer Workouts and Camps

#TXHSFBCHAT topic June 7, 2023

After Spring Ball and before school lets out for summer, I love performing exit interviews with my position players. I always ask them a two things:

1. What are your plans for this summer?

2. Have you signed up for our summer fitness?

I get a variety of answers for question one. I have kids that talk about getting summer jobs, or traveling with their families. Some of them have summer school. Most will mention something about working out and getting ready for the fall.

Then there are those who are pursuing playing football in college, and they will talk about the camps they are signed up to attend.

After they talk about all their summer plans, that’s when I follow up with the summer fitness question. The strong majority in recent years say no. Not because they don’t plan on attending, but more that they just haven’t gotten around to it yet. Which to me tells me it is not a priority to them. Even though we coaches talk to them about it, the players have to find it important enough to tell their parents about it to sign up.

For some reason they are not.

This is when I tell them what we do and how we need our players there, working together.

I know my guys will work out, I trust (mostly) they will do what they need to be ready for Day 1. But I really want them to understand that summer fitness is more about building the team. Will they get strong at Snap Fitness or with a private trainer? Sure they will. But they won’t be working for or with anybody but themselves.

Summer workouts are not just for building the strength of the individual, but for building the strength of the team. Continuing to build each other up and making the bonds knowing they can rely on each other in the thick of it.

Do it with and for the team, and be ready for Day 1.

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