The Brookbush Institute Publishes a NEW Article: '3 Workout Strategies You Should Avoid Before Practice and Games'

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NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, June 30, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- - Excerpt From the Article: 3 Workout Strategies You Should Avoid Before Practice and Games
- Related Course: Acute Variables: Performing Sets to Failure
- Additional Glossary Term: Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)

INTRODUCTION
Athletes and coaches are aware of the challenge of scheduling resistance training around practices, games, and tournaments. One emerging strategy involves performing resistance training sessions immediately before practices or games. When properly implemented, this approach allows athletes to maintain consistency in their training and may even enhance readiness and performance. In fact, many athletes, including myself, report feeling better during practices and games after a short (20–40 minute) resistance training session.

Ideally, pre-practice or pre-game sessions would include a movement preparation or corrective exercise warm-up routine based on movement assessment, followed by resistance training, low-intensity sport-specific drills (e.g., shooting drills, ball handling, route-running, etc.), and then would be followed by a full-intensity practice or gameplay, and finish with a cool-down and recovery routine. While this structure can be highly effective, it’s essential to avoid certain common resistance training strategies.

Some of the most effective strategies for hypertrophy, maximal strength, and muscular endurance result in significant short-term fatigue, reducing strength and power for several hours after training. This decrease in performance would defeat the purpose of pre-game or pre-practice resistance training, which is intended to help prepare the athlete for the sport and improve their performance. Avoiding fatigue-inducing protocols enables athletes to consistently attain the benefits of resistance training while minimizing any negative carryover of fatigue to their performance during practice and games. Over time, managing fatigue in this way may even result in greater gains, even during the season.

THE 3 TRAINING STRATEGIES TO AVOID BEFORE GAMES
Three resistance training strategies should be avoided based on available research (annotated bibliography below). We have also added a strategy, based on our experience, that cannot currently be confirmed with published studies.
- Repetitions to failure (reps-to-failure/set)
- Light-load, high-repetition training to failure (muscular endurance protocols)
- Drop sets
- Potentially: Blood flow restriction (BFR) training using high-rep protocols

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