Although school is not in session, athletes are still training hard throughout the summer at Lincoln High School.
We recently conducted an interview with the strength and conditioning coach at Lincoln, Michael Longmeyer.
We spoke with him about the current weight training program that he conducts throughout the summer, as well as how he feels this program has been doing thus far since it’s establishment last summer.
When asked about how many athletes are seen on average throughout the summer Longmeyer went on to explain, “Give or take on the day we see anywhere from 200-250 athletes, I would say on a normal basis that consistently come it’s about 150-180 athletes.”
However, he does mention that there does seem to be a small split between the number of girls and boys, with boys taking the majority.
Longmeyer estimated there to be about 30-40 more boys than girls on average.
As the interview went on, we talked about the challenges the program has faced since its start-up.
He said the biggest challenge would be “Consistency…But, I would say compared to starting this program a year ago to now, the numbers have increased as well as weights going up in terms of what we are able to do.”
We also asked what Coach Longmeyer plans to do to further the program, as he has previously taken steps to provide student-athletes with some form of protein after each lift.
“The nutrition one is still a go, this summer between our adopt-a-ship program and then Kwik Trip sponsoring some stuff, we have been giving out protein shakes,” he revealed. “A string cheese and then a hard-boiled egg at the end of every training session.”
He also noted, “The next thing isn’t necessarily weight room based but more trying to connect athletes with athletes… we are going to spotlight athletes within different sports including our current college athletes… and we are going to do teams of the month which will be weight room based, as well as teams of the season.”
The goal Longmeyer says is to hopefully broadcast other sports that don’t get as much recognition as say basketball or baseball.
