Filling Buckets

There is a kid's book that my son read in first grade called Have You Filled a Bucket Today. In short, “bucket fillers” give you good stuff and help “fill your bucket”. “Bucket dippers” “dip your bucket”. They do things to you that make you feel bad. As I read the StrengthCoach.com forum the other day, there was a question about in-season programming. The basic gist of the conversation concerned what to do during in-season strength training for wrestling. The strength coach was concerned that the coach did a lot of conditioning (running the hallways and lots of calisthenics) that might detract from or disrupt from the in-season program. She was looking for advice on what to do in-season with these athletes. My advice was simple. I said:  “I guess my feeling would be to fill the empty ‘buckets' for lack of a better term. Don't fill a bucket that's already filled”. If we look at each quantity (strength, power, enduran