My First Year in Review - Assessment
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If this is only for my amusement then so be it but I think there’s a lot to be learned from looking back on where you came from and see how you’ve adjusted.
The first thing I wanted to do when I arrived was assess my athletes. See what I was working with.
I started with a quick test I found online, I know it was a throwing related test I want to say from Harold Connelly but I could be wrong (please correct me and give a link if you know it).
The test seemed pretty quick, it covered overhead shot throw, 50m dash, standing triple jump, standing long jump and I remember I added vertical jump. Remember these are high school kids, I had to teach them all of this stuff.
I had 4 people that first day and this 5 point test took 2 hours! The next day 2 more guys showed up and I remember telling myself “oh, fuck it! Just have them throw.” I was so annoyed with it taking so long that I didn’t want to do it again.
The experience was such a pain that the following year I didn’t even bother trying to do it. Instead I did a mobility test that Mike Boyle talked about on T-Nation.
I had 3 throwers, should have been a breeze. I made the mistake of telling the head coaches how great this was and suddenly I was doing this assessment for the whole damn team.
The head coaches are great at recruiting and got 85 kids at a school of 500 to join the team. Three days later the whole team was done and I could focus on the throwers again.
These two situations made me not even think about doing an assessment this year.
I plan on polishing up the idea and making something I can do in September or November before the season starts. This way I get my assessment and don’t feel like I’m taking time away from actual training.
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