ANNOUNCEMENT: The Creighton School of Wrestling has launched a new web site devoted to our Palo Alto, CA wrestling club at www.creightonschoolofwrestling.com.

On this site, we describe our school year training programs and summer camps, publish the calendar, and provide registration forms.

You will also find related information about the club. We encourage you to check it out!

In terms of peaking or performing at your very highest level in the sport of wrestling, one should be very familar and understanding of the periodation model in training athletes. When I prepare my athletes for a big time wrestling event (National Duals, National tournament, etc.) the wrestling activities are generally at it's highest level. Our practice duration decreases anywhere from 1 hour to 45 minutes. Therefore, our practice duration is between 1 hour and 1 and a half hours at length. The… Continue

The peaking process is year long. We train with the end in mind and work back. Its a total system. We look at it in three phases. Technical, Training, Tapering. The phases are cycled based on the entire season, each semester, each month, each week. Basically each cycle incorporates a technical phase, a training phase and a taper phase. At the beginning we focus on learning and/or fine tuning our technique. In the middle its pushing ourselves hard physically to prepare for competition. At the end… Continue

I think that one of the most important things in wrestling is something that can't be taught. The will to break your opponent. Some people have the misconception that when you break someone in a match that they are out of shape, or just a lesser opponent. This is not true.

There are many things that go into breaking your opponent. First and foremost it takes hard work in the practice room. I was once told by my coach Steve Costanzo that you know you are a good drill partner when everyone pairs… Continue