I think for some players they think or use camp as their way to get up to speed before the season starts, whether it's weight, conditioning, playbook...

This is the wrong mentality, the goal of camp is to practice plays, at full speed, if you have certain players using those precious camp reps as condition reps or memorization reps, then your not using camp reps wisely, it's about being ready to practice harmoniously, no one dragging the others down for reasons that could of been controlled right now..

So to make a long story short, dolphin players, camp begins ASAP, and if you don't prioritize this next three weeks as a cramming session for major testing, then you simply are not maximizing your own professional ceiling nor the teams.

Three weeks to training camp, Tom Brady is working his *** off, whatta you doin?

 

Also, if I remember correctly Tom Brady had 4 weeks less vacation time then all dolphin players, member that dolphin players, member when you choked the last two weeks, y'all were on vacation then.

 

What trainng your body and living in your playbook?

 

That would be called a severe case of jealousy..

He's going to hall of fame partly because this is his mindset..put the hate down and you can learn from the best.

 

Your proposing no OTA's or no strength and cardiovascular Training once the football season ends?

 

I know right,I think there is some misconception that strength training is just limited to doing four sets of the same exercise, three different exercises per body part...back and bi's today boys..

I don't think I even want to get into a debate with folks who think that correct cardio and strength training during the time off from actual football, after a proper amount of rest and recovery time, could be detrimental..lol.

The training is a science, atrophy is the worst enemy..must maintain..must enter training camp
Peaking, not regular season peaking..you don't want to be trying to make gains during camp, you want to have your body right and peaking right when camp begins, because, when camps begins, it's about football and light training, not pushing in the weight room during training camp..maintaining and playing ball..fast..your gains have already been established if you did it right.

 

On top of that, there is no More contact during offseason, which means they have nothing to recover from, these are fresh *** bodies, they don't need another three weeks of doing nothing, if they do that these next three weeks they WILL NOT be at their best when camp begins, which brings me back to my original point, if your players are at their peak come training camp, your practice reps will be most efficient and effective, thus creating the best possible muscle memory that your looking for come regular season.

A good strength and conditioning coach knows this and should be applying it..

 

We let the pro athletes run around in shirts and underwear 4 different times, for three days each time, over the course of 6 months, with 0 heavy contact, before I say anything else what exactly are you guys debating specifically?, because if you think the athlete going on a sophisticated nutritional, cardio, stretching and strength program for 5 to 6 months with the goal of the body to be peaking in late July you don't really know what your talking about imo..so maybe some should just be more clear as to what their proposing.

 

Preparation 101...if there are any injuries whatsoever, by all means rehab those injuries to strengthen the muscles around the injury, for the rest, do not take the next three weeks off, stay in your routine, heighten the importance of flexibility, nutrition, quicks, mental focus, position specific strength training,and the understanding of your playbook.

Take three weeks off and think that you are at your best when camp begins, you are setting yourself up for injury.

 

BS.

Read the posts again, maybe slower.

What part of "flexibility", "nutrition", "quicks"," position specific strength training", and understanding your playbook" Has to do with esthetics..nada.

Moving on, if these guys lay off and rest their body's and minds for The next three weeks they will not be peaking 1st day of camp..listen to Tom Brady, he's talking to you.

 

And your using minimal instances of injury to defend your theory..

I'm guessing your envisioning these dudes in dirty golds gyms pumping their chest and tris.

I'm explaining how and when you should be peaking your body and for what reasons..

Atrophy is the bodies worst enemy, especially when it's inevitable that the body is about to go thru vigorous strains..

Must prepare the body to withstand and be strong..

Lets say you and others disagree with Bradys advice here, and you do the opposite, you think that the chances of injury are less because you chose to be sedentary for the next three weeks rather than proactive with a smartly designed routine with emphasis on flexibility, cardio, position specific strength, playbook focus?

Not only are you setting your body up for failure because of the extremes involves if you take the sedentary route, your dragging down the purpose of training camp..execution of plays at fastest speed possible.

 

Do we know what he was doing to tear it, because none of the things I suggested are condusive to shredding the knee, this dude had a torn labrum of his hip in January so I'm interested to see what he was doing..

 

That's where we're at in this conversation..rest in relation to being injury free relative to the violence and physical extremes of the sport, or intelligent training/nutrition of the body in relation to staying away from injuries in a physical sport..

Take the latter every time..it's a no brainer..

My take on this may be being sensationalized, the correct type of training in these next three weeks is imperative to peaking at your camp..that's all, I don't take much stock in the theory of rest before.

 

Right, and I think that's the key point, camp is not about lifting weights, it's about playing fast and being mentally sharp so your position and responsibility is covered, you want the body to be sharp when camp starts, you want it to be strong and you want your lung capacity to be high, if you can get it to peak at camp there still isn't a whole lot of contact in camp nowadays, you should be at your best, while your in camp, and it's weight room time, your maintaining, your stretching, your taking care of the body you worked for so hard.

 

For the few straglers who might feel like some here on the site do..just a basic training concept of when To peak your body..