High school PE teacher here.
I have two "Conditioning and Fitness" classes. Primary focus is on building absolute strength through the big lifts. I test kids on VJ (on a Just Jump), broad jumps, and 20-yard sprints 1x a week. For most of the year, my two classes have seen steady improvement...kids hitting lots of PRs...but the last couple weeks, the numbers are going the wrong way. I have a kid who was consistently hitting a 30+" VJ who hasn't hit that in about 3 weeks.
Any suggestions? What am I doing wrong? One possibility...we started up the basketball season and that seemed to coincide with the reduction in performance. Maybe the kids are doing enough running and jumping during basketball practice and I don't need to be doing it in class?
We are a small high school (about 200 kids 9-12). I feel like we do good things in the weight room and we have kids who value strength. I'm not some functional guru..our program is built around the big lifts. We squat, press, pull, and hinge. With only about 30 minutes in the weight room, we don't have time to waste on nonsense.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.