Coaches Pressure Sets

[twisting007bigflip]

Coaches,

Do you guys do pressure sets as a part of workouts? When do you do them? Off season? During season? All year? Where do you do them most? And HOW do you do them? Do you assign conditioning if they don't make them? Do you assign a number of skills that they need to make afterward? Do you reward with free time or games or up-training? What level do you start with pressure sets?

 

[JBS]

Yes...mainly before and during season...but we to pressure activities year round.

We do it a different way each time. Sometimes a game...sometimes for ice cream...sometimes for stickers.

We don't ever do them for conditioning...we do conditioning regardless. If they all "hit"...we're still conditioning.

 

[twisting007bigflip]

I have this major peeve with coaches using conditioning as "punishment" or as a bargaining tool...just threw it in there to see if anyone assigns skill specific conditioning for missed things. I tend to not do that since we have a conditioning rotation and I sneak in conditioning at a station at each rotation...

 

[chalkbowl]

I main coach beam and we do pressure sets all the time during meet season. My owner HATES them so I've had to become pretty creative with them. Sometimes I will randomly pick an athlete and let them know a reward the entire group will get if they hit their pressure set. Sometimes the group gets a reward if they all make them in a row. Sometimes the group gets to pick their line-up and if they make 2 in a row they get a reward etc. I never assign conditioning for someone who missed their pressure set, but they may have to go make 10 in a row of a skill they fall on.

 

[JBS]

My owner HATES them

Must be an owner thing.

 

[Deleted member D3987]

must be an owner thing.

lol! ))))))))

 

[gymgurl]

We do them and if they don't get their set then they do an extra set, not as punishment but so that we can get stronger and we all know it's not punishment.

 

[iwannacoach]

If you mean having one kid perform in front of the rest of the kids...nope, don't do it. If you mean you gotta stick three routines in a row on bars in order to "move on".....you betcha!

 

[Susan]

My goal as a coach is to try to make workouts feel more like competitions and make competitions feel more like workouts. For goal #1, I do pressure cookers (that's what I call them) in the following way... 2 weeks before a competition I draw names and events from 2 separate bags. At unannounced times during practice, I blow a whistle and call the group over to draw one name and one event. If you are chosen, you have to perform the event that's chosen for rest of the team after a 1 touch warm up. Since all of my kids are capable of throwing no-fall routines on every event at this point in the season, when one of them falls during a pressure cooker I know the fall is the result of the same kind of nerves that a meet will bring on -- not lack of good practice when the pressure is not on. Instead of assigning extra sets as a consequence, I make sure that kid gets to try more pressure cookers on that same event in the coming weeks before the meet so that they can learn to deal with the nerves and adrenaline. I've had good success with this & rarely have kids fall in competition.