Don’t Use Exercises at Punishment
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I took a coaching class in college with a professor who was a coach and A.D. at a local high school school for 30 years. One of the subjects was about punishments. He said that exercises as punishment associates something you want them to do as negative. You want your athletes to be able to do a good push up. So if you have them doing push ups as punishment, they will associate them as such when doing them in training.
I had a girl who never lifted before, but was benching 145 her first time. The problem was that she couldn't stabilize her body. Basically her arms would handle the weight well, but her body would rock back and forth on the bench. I figured if she did push ups she would get more stability, so I told her to do 3 sets of 10. She did not like this solution…After about 30 minutes of convincing, she finally started doing them.
Suddenly I noticed she was crying but had no idea as to why. She did them but what I came to realize much later was that she wasn't crying because she had to do push ups. It was push ups were associated with punishment. She subconsciously thought she did something wrong but couldn't understand what. It's not that she couldn't do the push ups, it's that she didn't want to be punished.
Now I take the “give them the boot” policy. That professor didn't really mention an alternative to exercises being a punishment in class. So I contacted him later. He put it bluntly, "if they want to practice, let them practice. If they don't, being there is a privilege not a right.”
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