US Sports Lacrosse Improve your Lacrosse Team with these Drills

 

Improve your Lacrosse Team with these Drills

• By Col Burn
 

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If you look at the numbers, it’s safe to say that the sport of Lacrosse continues to be a growing sport. In the United States alone, participation grew over 3% in 2017 with over 825,000 people playing the sport. That was the 12th consecutive year of growth with a net increase of at least 20,000 players each of those years. Participants include boys, girls and men and women from the youth level up to the high school and collegiate years.

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With the increase comes the need for more knowledgeable coaches who can teach the game the right way. Sure, some coaches have played the game and have a good idea of the types of drills and practice sessions needed. But for the more beginning level coaches, it’s helpful to have some drills to fall back on that can help improve your team. Here are five drills that we think can help.

Catching Drills

Catching drills are important because throwing and receiving are such important parts of the game. Start with some stationary drills between paired up players. Have them make some throws and catches from their left side and then their right side until they are comfortable.

Move to catching drills where the players are running. They need to learn to throw and catch while on the move while also alternating between their right and left hands.

Finally, have them practice making poor throws so it’s more difficult to make the catch. This will get them practicing extending to catch passes or moving their stick from one side to the other.

Clearing Drills

Goalies need to practice making clearing passes after a save. Practice this by having one player shoot the ball while another moves downfield towards the midfield line to receive the pass from the goalie. You can start with the goalies making passes to stationary players and then change it up by having receivers on the move catching the goalie passes.

Ground Balls Drill

Pair players up and roll a ball so that each player has an equal chance to get it. The goal is to have them battle for the ball and not allow the other player to win it. Some tips here is for players to practice using their body to box out the other and gain possession or kicking the ball loose from a scrum to get a better advantage. This drill will teach players how to aggressively gain possession of the ball for their team.

Cradling Drills

Have players cradle the ball while running down the field. First using both hands and then switching to one hand and alternating between each hand. This is needed when a player needs to ward off a defender with their opposite hand.

Shooting Drills

These can be done in a variety of different ways to simulate game conditions. They should practice shooting on the move going to both their left and right, and sometimes with a defender in front of them. They can also practice shooting after scooping a ball off the ground or when coming from around the back of the net. You can also use cones to add specific target areas for players to improve accuracy. 

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Why do you need to Try Coconut Oil In Your Coffee?

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Coconut oil coffee is the latest coffee trend. It's smooth and creamy and has health benefits. It boosts energy, metabolism, and immunity. Below is more science-backed information on coffee's health benefits.

Putting oil in your coffee may sound weird, but it's surprisingly delicious and may be healthy in moderation.

MCTs are absorbed and metabolized faster than LCTs, so they can't be stored as fat. MCTs are a body's "instant fuel." Coconut oil contains MCTs.

Because MCT oil is extracted from coconut oil, there are super benefits of using coconut oil in your coffee for extra energy, good health, and creamy, frothy coffee that tastes WILD.

Coconut coffee health benefits

Coconut oil is saturated fat, so consuming it often may not be healthy. My research shows that drinking coconut oil coffee once or twice a week or as a post-workout treat is not only delicious but also healthy.

1. Some fats are good.

Men who ate coconut oil's MCTs in the morning ate fewer calories throughout the day, according to a study. Unsurprisingly, a study found that people on a low-fat diet are hungrier and moodier than those on a ketogenic diet. Good fat doesn't make you fat, but sugar (i.e. carbs) does because the body stores excess sugar energy as fat in the liver.

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People who "diet" by avoiding fats often eat too many carbs.

As the brain runs on fat rather than sugar, eating healthy fats in the morning may improve your mood and mental endurance.

2. Happiness boosts brainpower.

MCTs, improve Alzheimer's patients' cognitive functions, according to recent studies.

Although coconut oil may not directly boost brain function in healthy adults, it may reduce stress and help you think more clearly.

Even if you perform well under stress, everyone knows it's not sustainable and can cause many problems. Virgin coconut oil's antioxidants and other nutrients help you relax and boost your mental capacity.

The same study found coconut oil may help with depression. Coconut oil coffee can calm anxious, depressed, or overwhelmed people. Coconut oil's MCTs and polyphenols provide these benefits.

Make sure you get high-quality virgin coconut oil and try a self-experiment over a week.

3. Coffee and coconut oil pair well

Coconut oil boosts metabolism by creating heat. Coffee's interesting. Combining the two can boost a slow metabolism.

It's also delicious. Depending on the type, coffee has a strong, acidic flavor. Coconut's tropical mellowness is a perfect match. Choosing your coffee grind for your brewing style will also help you avoid bitter coffee, especially with a French Press (keep it coarse).

4. Boost immunity

Together, coconut oil and coffee can help you fight off illness and build your immune system.

Coconut oil contains lauric acids, which fight antioxidants, bacteria, and other irritants.

It helps fight one of the hardest bacteria to control, Candida, which causes skin irritations, gut issues, sleep problems, and depression. Staphylococcus Aureus can also cause illness in humans.

Coconut oil can help with herpes, hepatitis C, and mononucleosis-causing Epstein-Barr. MCTs in coconut oil encase viruses in fat, which destroys the viral membrane.

Coconut oil isn't a cure-all, but it helps with many common illnesses.

Coconut oil is also good for your skin because it moisturizes and fights fungi, bacteria, and viruses that cause skin infections. Coconut oil is a great moisturizer and cleanser because of this.

For people prone to skin issues, adding coconut oil to coffee (full of polyphenols) to boost the immune system and using extra to soothe the skin seems like a winning strategy. Science supports coconut oil's superfood status. Doubtful? It's easy, try it!

5. Increase metabolism

Coconut oil is thermogenic, meaning it generates body heat. It can boost energy and fat-burning when consumed. Add coffee, and you're a powerhouse. As a three-chain fatty acid, coconut oil is processed by the liver into energy instead of fat. Adding it to coffee boosts your energy.

Caffeine boosts metabolism. Coconut oil is a natural laxative that improves digestion by cleansing the digestive tract. These two ingredients improve digestion without being too harsh on the body.

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Todays' Devotional: The Law Is Written On The Hearts Of All

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 “For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another” (Romans 2:14, 15).

Even though the Gentiles were not given the Ten Commandments, they can “do by nature” the things contained in them because the Ten Commandments contain God’s moral law. Even under grace, they’re still valid.

US Sports Football: Dan Quinn- Set Your Standard

 

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Setting the Standard

 

What is the standard? 

 

Creating a culture or setting the tone for your ball club can commonly be referred to setting the standard. It's a motto that not only you but your teammates pledge by. In unison. Dan Quinn said “The standard is not easily maintained but each man is mentally tough, filled with resilience and surrounded by a brotherhood that will push him to be the very best he can be”.

 

Why is a standard important? 

 

It's vital to an organzations or football team's success that they have a standard. A rule of living, code of behavior, code of honor or touchstone. Without it, there is no structure. No one to hold one another accountable for their actions. You’ll hear it often. “It's a brotherhood, it is our responsibility to make sure that we pass on this standard to all new teammates to ensure that the proud tradition and reputation we have started continues”. It's a way of living that begins from ownership all the way to its players. The state of the standard is that you always give it one hundred percent. Book this course........ Enter Ambassador Code: 11586773 for all available discounts.

 

Whatever you accomplish, you accomplish as a team. In order to accomplish anything as a team, there must be a standard set. Everyone’s connected to one another. In order for a player to make an interception, the defensive line must’ve created pressure. There is no I in team. 

 

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Todays' Devotional: No More Tears!

From CDM

 “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away” (Revelation 21:4).

Death is only temporary. God’s promises of eternal life in heaven give hope to the believer.

US Sports Culture: It’s Time to Stop Denying Reality About Transgender Athletes

From The Heritage Foundation:

Jared Eckert

Former Research Associate, DeVos Center

Jared Eckert was a research associate in The Heritage Foundation’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family.

Being out of step with reality is bad enough. But the Biden administration is out of step with Americans, too. 

Key Takeaways

Hormone levels alone don’t make someone a woman. And no number of cross-sex hormones can undo the biological benefits of male genetics and development.

Polling shows that 67% of Americans oppose allowing biological males who identify as transgender to compete in girls and women’s athletics.

As we prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Title IX next year, elected officials should stand up for women, for reality, and for the American public.

A transgender athlete, Lia Thomas, dominated during a Nov. 20 women’s swim meet with athletes representing Cornell, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Thomas, a biological male who identifies as a woman, set new Ivy League records for the women’s 500 and 200 freestyle and smashed numerous UPenn records in women’s swimming. 

In the 1650 freestyle final, Thomas, who used to swim on UPenn’s men’s team as Will Thomas, blew the competition out of the water—finishing first with a devastating, 38-second lead.

Sadly, stories such as this one have become more common. If the Biden-Harris administration has its way, they could become the rule.

Just a few weeks after Thomas trounced biologically female teammates, President Joe Biden’s Department of Education announced plans to amend Title IX regulations to conform to the president’s executive order on what it calls “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.”

Such amendments by the Education Department would allow biological males to compete against women in the name of “equality” and “preventing discrimination.”

But the truth is, these amendments would contradict reality, equality, and popular opinion.

Hormone levels alone don’t make someone a woman. And no amount of cross-sex hormones can undo the biological benefits of male genetics and development.

A 2020 study by the BMJ, formerly the British Journal of Medicine, shows that male athletes who are “transitioning” retain a competitive edge against women even after two years of taking estrogen.

In earlier days, one wouldn’t have needed a scientific study to prove the point. Thomas’ 38-second lead in the freestyle speaks for itself.

And yet, gender ideologues continue to deny reality.

Despite the science, the NCAA—and the International Olympics Committee—requires that a biological male’s testosterone must be suppressed for only one year before that male is free to compete against women.

Like the NCAA, the Biden administration’s latest announcement denies the science of biological sex.

However, denying the truth has consequences. Specifically, the denial of sexual reality robs women of the very opportunities protected by the federal law known as Title IX.

Under Title IX, women’s athletics received equal resources for facilities, training, recruitment, and scholarships. As a result, far more women participated in sports.

In 1972, the number of female athletes in high school totaled 295,000. Now there are 2.6 million. The number of female college athletes has quintupled in that same time.

Title IX also is credited with decreasing dropout rates for women and increasing the number of women in higher education.

Allowing trans-identifying biological males to compete in women’s sports, or for women’s scholarships, reverses this progress.

Thomas’ drubbing of female swimmers in the Ivy League is just the latest example. The female athlete who would have placed first ended up placing second—to Thomas, a biological male with a proven biological advantage.

What’s more, Thomas’ personal bests in the 500 and 1650 freestyle would break current NCAA records in women’s swimming set by an Olympic gold medalist, Katie Ledecky.

Imagine if Thomas had competed against Ledecky and performed at a personal-best level. The world might never have come to know of Ledecky. Now imagine how many women athletes would miss out on scholarship and career opportunities if forced to compete against biological males in every contest. This is the world the White House seeks to usher in.

Being out of step with reality is bad enough. But the Biden administration is out of step with Americans, too.

Polling shows that 67% of Americans oppose allowing biological males who identify as transgender to compete in girls and women’s athletics. Twenty states are suing the Department of Education over the new regulations.

Over 37 states have introduced bills to keep women’s sports for women. Nine have passed such bills.

The Biden administration and its gender-activist allies made their unpopular view clear from Day One. The administration won’t be content to stop at changing Title IX regulations. It will go on to rewrite the law to force female athletes across the nation to compete against biological males.

Barring that, the White House will seek to change the law piece by piece. It will be the death of women’s sports by a thousand cuts.

Enough is enough. As we prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Title IX next year, elected officials should stand up for women, for reality, and for the American public.

This piece originally appeared in The Daily Signal

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How Often Should You Be Training

Training a Muscle Group Every day is Better than Once a Week.

Ken Yu

It’s a heavily debated issue on how often you should train a muscle group. A new study published in July 2022 in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports claims that a small amount of daily activity can be more beneficial than a single high-volume session of exercise. 

The four-week study split 36 untrained college students (24 males and 12 females) into three groups to measure the change in muscle strength and muscle thickness while performing max effort eccentric bicep curls. Group A performed one set of six reps each week, which unsurprisingly did not show any changes in muscle strength and muscle size. Group B performed one set of thirty reps each week which resulted in a six percent increase in muscle size but no additional muscular strength. Group C performed six reps five times per week which resulted in both a ten percent increase in strength and a similar increase in muscle size to Group B.

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Many people have a muscle group that simply refuses to grow. For me, it has always been my chest. Once I switched from a single high-volume day to training three times a week incorporating a day of power, volume, and accessories, my pecs have greatly developed. So, if your single high-volume day is not working, why not try hitting your weak areas multiple times per week. A higher frequency training program will help you develop better form, deepen your mind-muscle connection, increase your overall training volume, and won’t allow one bad day to ruin your gains for the week. 

As a final note, this study is not conclusive and there are many other studies that contradict this result.  For example, a 2019 paper by Brad Jon Schoenfeld et al. J Sports Sci. did a comprehensive meta-analysis of 25 studies involving training frequency. They concluded that resistance training frequency does not meaningfully impact muscle hypertrophy when volume is equated. Therefore, you can choose a weekly frequency per muscle group based on personal preference.

References

1. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sms.14220
2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30558493/

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Today's Devotional: Defeating The Ultimate Enemy

 From CDM

“So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” (1 Corinthians 15:54, 55).

The Bible sees death as an enemy. However, Jesus’ resurrection defeated this enemy; there is now no reason for the believer to fear death.

US Sports Tactical PE: Have You Prepared Your Kids for a Survival Situation

 

• Author Rob Crossman

Why is it so important to teach your kids survival skills?

As parents and adults, it is your responsibility to teach your children about disaster preparation as early as possible. In the actual world, most individuals who are fighting for their lives aren't doing it alone.

You have a family to support to make things even more difficult for you.

People have been raising children for millennia without all of the contemporary comforts available to them, and they've made it through just fine.

You must devise strategies for ensuring the safety of your children while also doing the many duties necessary for our continued existence. The entire family will rely on you for direction and support to help them survive any tragedy; therefore, you need to be prepared.

Teaching children to be resilient in the face of natural catastrophes is a difficult task that will test the patience of everyone involved. The key to ensuring your children have the required survival skills is knowing how to educate them ahead of time.

When raising children, safety is the priority. Curiosity might lead children into dangerous situations since they aren't accustomed to being in a survival scenario.

Children learn by doing, and in a survival crisis, they would do the same thing they would in any other. Setting boundaries to keep kids safe is one of our duties. What they are permitted to do and what they aren't.

However, you also want them to have the freedom to experiment and discover. The instructor is the student! The lower their risk of harm, the more they learn about potentially harmful situations. The easiest way to teach a youngster anything is to turn it into a game.

Make the lesson fun for the kids by turning it into a game. As a means of teaching a youngster survival skills, camping is a great option.

They will learn the fundamentals of camping, which are the same abilities required for survival. When needed, they'll be ready to go into action. Teach them the fundamentals of protecting themselves. Educate them about the risks they may experience while camping so they are prepared.

You should also teach your children how to cope with strangers when camping as a parent. In the long run, teaching your children about survival and how to enhance their well-being pays off.

Your children will be able to behave and think more maturely as a result of this instruction. After you teach your children the skills they will need to survive a crisis, they will grow up to be more intelligent people.

Preparedness conversations should include the whole family, including youngsters. Explain in a calm and straightforward manner, and be honest while answering queries. To guarantee their long-term existence, focus on safety.

If you and your family are separated, teach your children to recall basic personal information about themselves and their family members. Make sure they know to keep away from fallen trees, power poles, and exposed wires.

Make sure they know how to alert an adult if they detect the smell of gas. Tell them what to do if they smell gas and how to escape out of the home.

As a family project, go through your emergency plans and plan your escape routes. Each youngster should have their own bug-out bag. Keep them entertained with a photo of the family, a toy, a game, a book, or a puzzle.

Treats of their choosing may be included. This includes copies of the children's birth certificates, updated photographs, and anything else that might aid ensure the survival of the whole family.

Think safety, security, and comfort when it comes to your children. Preparation is crucial for everyone, but particularly for children under the age of seven. The fact that they are children makes them vulnerable to a wide range of tragedies.

If you're in the middle of a crisis, your family will need food above all else. In the end, you'll have to rely on emergency food supplies to feed yourself. In the event that these supplies are exhausted, you will be forced to depend on the natural edibles that are available to you for survival.

For disaster preparedness, teach your children to consume organic veggies in their meals, making it simpler for them to adapt to new conditions in the event of a tragedy.

As a result of doing safety exercises, all members of the community will be more prepared for the unexpected and better equipped to handle the physical repercussions of the crisis. Make running a regular component of your children's fitness regimen. Staying healthy and strong while improving their survival abilities is a win-win situation. Practice!

Preparing a First Aid survival pack ahead of time is critical in case of an emergency. When an accident occurs, an emergency survival kit may save a person's life. Children of all ages should be able to utilize these skills to aid themselves and those in need.

For those who aren't constantly there to care about them, it's important to teach them how to utilize the first aid kit. To improve their chances of survival, they must acquire the most basic self-defense techniques.

Preparation and preparation and preparation and preparation and preparation and preparation are the keys to surviving and surviving and surviving. Your family's safety and well-being depend on having a strategy in place. "Survival is our Purpose!"

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