Goals & Objectives
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Strength
& Conditioning
Goals & Objectives |
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Any athletic team can only be as strong as the strength and conditioning program that form its foundation. In order to perform at the optimal level for sustained periods, every athlete must maintain proper nutritional habits and rest patterns, and develop consistent year-round work routines. Oregon’s strength and conditioning staff places a premium on the efficiency of movement, defined as “getting from Point A to Point B with the maximum amount of force in the minimum amount of time.” |
| Oregon athletes have the opportunity to improve themselves with a year-round program that emphasizes speed, strength, flexibility and agility. Strength increases through dynamic and concentrated styles of resistance training using different cycles. Speed improves through loading and over-speed training. Loading involves uphill running, towing and plyometrics, which employ the facets of jumping, running, sprinting and throwing. Over-speed training involves downhill running, tubing and additional plyometric exercises. |
| Oregon’s philosophy on training high level athletes is a basic one with simple principles. Each individual athlete, for the 2, 3, 4 or 5 years of their academic/athletic career will establish specific goals and objectives for themselves. A commitment to “training” as a high level or elite competitor does, and as the overall program expresses… |  |
GOALS & OBJECTIVES -
LONG TERM = EXPLOSIVE POWER
- Functional
Strength
- Directional Speed
- Transitional Agility
SHORT TERM = SPEED ENDURANCE
- Work Capacity
- Recoverability
- Stamina
Therefore the content of training is predicated on the efficient and
effective utilization of training modalities...
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