Remember, however, that the flying work is instructed to be done no faster than 95%; yet, nearly all of my guys aren’t even pushing that pace.
Too boot, pro day was on a Tuesday. working backwards to the last flying sprint session-
-all sprint work beyond 10yds is sub-max-
Tuesday- pro day
Monday- light warm up
Sunday- 4x10yd from 3pt
Saturday- pool work
Friday- 4x10yd, 30ydx1 all from 3pt
Thursday- off
Wednesday- 10ydx4 from 3pt, 60ydx1 flying + drill practice
During the taper, all running, beyond the 10yd work out of their 3pt, ‘looks’ very relaxed to me; thereby reinforcing to me the diminished possibility of muscle pull on test day- which of course didn’t hold true 100%.
At least personal records were bountiful.
I should note, however, that massage was nearly non-existent beyond what I provided here and there to select individuals. So, instead, my Globus EMS worked overtime as well as the guys performing tempo type running in the pool in between sprint/field days.
On that note, after two seasons here of preparing my athletes for the combine/pro day I’m certain that a third will not go by without some assurance that routine massage will be available beyond what I offer myself.