Two-a-days are fast approaching for the fall sporting season; and the question that pops up is how effective are the week and a half, two weeks prior to the first game of the season?

It’s tradition to do two-a-days, everyone has done it for decades.

The Good side of it is that it knocks the cobwebs off from coaches down to the back-ups on the freshman squad. To get into shape and re-learn the system and learn any new schemes for the upcoming season.

But, I believe their are two major bad points to two-a-days however.

One, you could run into player burnout. From my sports psychology class; I learned that the higher of a player burnout, the higher risk of injury because they are going through the motions due to mental fatigue and possibly physical fatigue, while you have another player not suffering from burnout going 100-percent.

Also too, looking at it from a physiology standpoint is that most of these kids are still physically maturing. Yeah there is a mentality that, “there young, so they’ll heal faster.”; but when you factor in dehydration of the body from a macro-level and the cellular level of the micro-level with the tearing of the myofasical fibers (muscle fibers) and the fascia around the muscles it becomes a recipe for disaster overtime because you are not allowing the body enough time to properly heal with the three or four hours in between practice during the day and maybe eight, nine hours at night.

And by gameday, several players are injured due to some form of the two with injuries and players quitting despite coaches’ attempts to maintain health and sanity of not just themselves, but with their athlete at the high school, college and professional levels.

Now I’m not voicing against two-a-days because I did it with football back in the mid-2000s; but I’m voicing a opinion of some sort of reform to this age-old idea.

Jeremy McDonald received a B.S. in Journalism from Southern Oregon University in 2011 and currently is finishing up his B.S. in Health and Physical Education from Southern Oregon University.