Hey everybody! I was wondering if, as a coach, you give conditioning as a punishment? I know our coach does, to the point of bringing me to tears. Do you use conditioning as a punishment? Why or why not?
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Old gym did that all the time. If they took too long, if they fell too often then its push ups, V ups or whatever. New gym I have never seen that. I think that its wrong to "punish" a gymnast if it isn't a behavioral issue and if it is then call parents to take kid home and deal with it. or sit them out until they can behave.
I agree with this. I don't really find it necessary to punish anyone in any way really. If you don't want to be there, you can sit down or call your parents and explain why you are not doing practice. I don't really have behavioral issues on team, but if I did, conditioning would not be the answer.
Now sometimes with the rowdy boys groups, I have seen it be fairly effective to have the whole group stop and doing conditioning to get things settled down. I suppose that's not really punishment, more like regrouping. That's the only way I'd use it. But I've never needed to do that with girls.
Pickle’s coach sometimes has them run stairs for punishment. It’s never for not getting skills (like falling off the beam or something). It’s usually if someone is late (either to practice or back from a break) or if they are goofing off when they are supposed to be working.
I just don't get this concept of punishing a child for being late to practice. I understand and agree with consequences for coming back from break or extra long trips to the restroom, however, not in the form of "conditioning"...making a child run stairs because they were late to practice is ridiculous - it's not like they drove the car. That's like suing Walmart because you broke your arm at McDonalds.