I have been using the search function here to try and find an answer to the question I have and I came across this post:
Is it safe to lift the upper body twice a day post #6
I was reading Bill Hartman's responses and he said that any sports program has twice a day practices, meeting, weightraining, etc. I don't know what time of days they do their training and how much time in-between with recovery time, etc. Softball and Baseball for example has a lot of throwing and quick change of direction and speed. I am talking about UC's by the way, not JC's. A lot different. I know what the phases are for the off-season, in-season, pre-season, etc, so no need to discuss that and make my post long.
I heard like early in the morning (like 6am) when the athletes lift because practice would be in the late afternoon like 2 or 3pm and games at night or whatever. Is this right? and do any colleges do twice a day lifting like Bill Hartman mentioned as examples (If so, which example)? If all colleges do this and everyones arms are still good and speed is fast and such, then maybe this is what I should be doing too, so I won't have a lost in performance again like I suffered with in the spring. Maybe I did not do enough sprint work (did not do it everyday) and that may have had something to do with it. I have no idea.
The question I was really trying to find the answer to is, what is the time of recovery needed before performing any agility work, sprint work, playing a sport (game or practice), activity, etc?
without decreasing performance. Before I play around with any program (don't want to risk an injury trying to do the wrong thing), I would like to get advice from the experts and those who know about how colleges work their sport programs and schedules.
How I scheduled my lifting schedule in the spring semester around slowpitch and my own conditioning made my performance actually worse instead of better. I was not lifting on the same day I was playing slowpitch and I was doing conditioning work before I would lift. I would lift usually around 5pm 2-3 times a week. If you are not getting the results you want, that means you are doing something wrong, correct?. In my case, I did something wrong. I don't think it had anything to do with the exercises I did though (like for example. you said the deadlift had nothing to do with the lost of speed I lost for a while). I have not lifted since june 7 (when school was out) and my sprinting speed, throwing power/distance, and hitting power came back. My hitting mechanics of course are still not all that good, but the power got back to where it was before I first time stuck to a weightraining program for slowpitch.
My schedule of availability is different now that I work. I work in mornings at 8. At night during the week (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thurs), I play slowpitch softball and on weekends fastpitch adult league softball. I need to find a time to do weightraining and I do not want to do it at a time that my performance will decrease and I am not a night person. When I come home from slowpitch games, I stretch and then I am tired and go right to sleep.
I do not want to know about what kind of exercises colleges do or sets, reps. All I want to know is how many days they lift, how long of recovery/rest time before practices, etc. I would like the average number of days, how many different times they lift during the day, and what time they do the lifting a long with conditoning time in between practices and games.
Not getting the right results and performance actually decreasing from lifting discourages me from lifting and will make me not want to do it anymore. Thats how I feel right now because the bad experience I had in the spring semester with the lifting. I want to know for sure what to do, so that this won't happen again