Can anyone detail the workouts that HS/College Wrestlers do?

ThaiFighter_83 · 10-07-2008, 02:49 PM

What's a typical High School or College wrestling workout? I heard they typically last 3-4 hours. What do they do in that time?

pleasetap · 10-07-2008, 11:39 PM

I don't know about 3-4 hours in HS. Normally it's just lifting followed by a 2 mile run on lift days and grappling followed by sprints on wrestling days. Which part do you want to know more of?

nate schroeder · 10-07-2008, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by pleasetap

I don't know about 3-4 hours in HS. Normally it's just lifting followed by a 2 mile run on lift days and grappling followed by sprints on wrestling days. Which part do you want to know more of?

how often is this done. like lifting days t, th and grappling days mwf or something.

Andy Rickert · 10-08-2008, 12:03 AM

obviously every program is different. Look up some of the better high schools and colleges. Some teams just have piss poor strength & conditioning programs

pleasetap · 10-08-2008, 12:04 AM

^^^^

He's telling the truth. Just so you know, conditioning is stressed WAY more than strength training.

KILL KILL · 10-08-2008, 01:05 AM

during the season training is all geared toward conditioning. we did lots of circuit training for strength too

Joe Funaro · 10-08-2008, 01:17 AM

I came from a strong wrestling team (for my area) in high school.

We lacked any real strength training (bench, dead snatch and that stuff). We were expected to lift off season if we wanted to.

Workouts were around 3 hours. Running usually started off the practice. Then skipping rope. After that it was geared towards actual wrestling. Learn a technique, practice technique, wrestle live (usually from a certain position) and repeat. After wrestling there would be about 45 minutes left for conditioning. Sprints up the mats, bear crawls and such.

2-3x a week we did circuit training in the gym, depending on if we had a meet the next day. It was mostly a plate workout, with pull-ups, presses, bench, rows, squats and such.

My last year they implemented a real strength program (cleans, squats, pull-ups and bench), the football coaches helped with that I think. That was to be done 2x per week at the end of practice.

JJ86 · 10-09-2008, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe Funaro

I came from a strong wrestling team (for my area) in high school.

We lacked any real strength training (bench, dead snatch and that stuff). We were expected to lift off season if we wanted to.

Workouts were around 3 hours. Running usually started off the practice. Then skipping rope. After that it was geared towards actual wrestling. Learn a technique, practice technique, wrestle live (usually from a certain position) and repeat. After wrestling there would be about 45 minutes left for conditioning. Sprints up the mats, bear crawls and such.

2-3x a week we did circuit training in the gym, depending on if we had a meet the next day. It was mostly a plate workout, with pull-ups, presses, bench, rows, squats and such.

My last year they implemented a real strength program (cleans, squats, pull-ups and bench), the football coaches helped with that I think. That was to be done 2x per week at the end of practice.

This is similar to what I had in high school, except for the strength program we were required to lift before school 3x a week then had practice after school 5x a week with wrestling/conditioning.

Corrosion · 10-09-2008, 07:51 PM

My wrestling team had somewhat similar training.

Warm up/jog/run/stretch for about 15 minutes, technique and drills for 1 hour then live wrestling for another hour (the best conditioning you can do for wrestling, in my opinion). Then about 30 minutes of conditioning (stair sprints, burpee-like abominations and drills).

Ifight4Beer · 10-10-2008, 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Corrosion

My wrestling team had somewhat similar training.

Warm up/jog/run/stretch for about 15 minutes, technique and drills for 1 hour then live wrestling for another hour (the best conditioning you can do for wrestling, in my opinion). Then about 30 minutes of conditioning (stair sprints, burpee-like abominations and drills).

thats almost the exact scedual our wrestling team followed but we were pushed to come in in the morning and jog but that was "optional"