Offseason: a key factor to every sports team. The time coaches take time to make athletes stronger, faster, more agile, and tougher. Offseason: where coaches evaluate the players to find the dependable athletes they can trust to play hard every play. Offseason: the time where players test their limits on their bodies, knowing that hard work produces a profit.
“I believe offseason is the first step into the next football season,” Coach Shane Ferguson said. “Offseason is exciting because you get to watch boys turn into men.”
The week of offseason consists of squats with lunges as an auxiliary lift on Monday, bench press with with curls as an auxiliary lift on Tuesday, “Hump day,” a day that tests your mental strength by putting your body through tough drills on Wednesday, and Thursday and Friday repeating Monday and Tuesday.
“Motivation drives the team in offseason,” Coach Jerry Wyatt said. “It makes you work for the season down the road knowing that you won’t see immediate results.”
The coaches run the football team; not just by calling the plays and teaching technique, but by giving the players a sense of motivation.
“It makes you think, will all of this be worth it,” Wyatt said. “Then when the times comes you can tell yourself that you have been more tired which makes you push through the pain.”
“Physical toughness can make or break a football team,” Coach Ferguson says. But mental toughness ties the team together by making athletes tell themselves they can keep going. Being mentally tough also helps athletes think of the times where they were in more pain and gives the athletes the mental drive that is needed in a situation when they’re needed in the game.
“Individual Strength and team cohesiveness are needed because it allows you to be a bigger and stronger group,” Coach Jake Bostick said. “If each guy is bigger, faster, and stronger it allows the coaches to create different schemes to make the team successful.”
