Practice Plan?

[John]

What do your typical daily practice schedules look like? What drills do you do and for how long?

[lonestar]

15-20 minute general warmup (includes jogging, dynamic stretching such as arm circles, leg swings, bar twists, running drills like A's and B's, carioca, cycles, and 2 build up sprints the length of the runway) Sometimes we throw in light hurdle mobility also.

25-30 minutes drill work - depends on what that individual vaulters needs the most work on. Could involve plant drills, swing drills, takeoff drills, turn drills, etc...

45 minutes of actual vaulting - 1 day a week strictly long run, 1-2 days of shorter runs for technical work - I consider short run anything from 2-8 steps or 1-4 lefts. Long is 10-14 steps or 5-7 lefts. Don't have anyone running any farther than that, don't need to.

15-30 minutes gymnastic and core strength - mostly high bar and ring stuff including pull-ups, wipers, bubkas, 1/2 bubkas, L-ups, knee-ups, muscle-ups, pullovers

5 minutes static stretching

[USMC Vaulter]

lonestar - I like your set up, its kinda close to what I was thinking of using for my guys - I think I might steal it

[master]

...running drills like A's and B's, carioca, cycles,...

lonestar, I don't know many drills by name. Is there a descriptive web page or something that would explain these to me? If not, could you provide a description? Thanks.

[John]

http://www.pvei.com/

This website is great! Lots of great information for vaulters and coaches!!

[distancejumper]

We start out at Exactly 3:30 with a warm up jog. then we go do general warm-up things (high kees, butt kicks, lunges things like that). then we split up into three groups; sprinters, distance runners, and throwers. whe then do our workout with them. when where done we do our jumps.

[meg15078]

We do a 800 warm up and do all our stretche and than i am w/ the distance team so i go with them and do about a mile or so and then i go pole vault for the rest of the time. But some days we just go and do a couple of vaults and than just lay on the mats and tan