If I may say this, and it is not advice but just some things I did with my kids that may help you with yours.
My kids would do Judo/Boxing for about 4-6 weeks straight and then I would let them take 1-2 weeks off so they could just chill and let their minds process their body knowledge and think about things they had learned.
I told them this up front and it was an honest and straight forward conversation.
“We train for 4-6 weeks, you then take a week off and go do other stuff and then think about how it relates to you and your life.”
They loved the idea.
On the off days, we would go hiking, biking or fishing and talk about various things related to their other sports and school life…etc.
Then we would go back to training after they were refreshed for another 4-6 weeks.
Everybody at the Dojo would be excited to see them and they felt the camaraderie and would get right back into it and wanted to continue doing it.
They were both playing Lacrosse at the time and it was a lot of activity.
I would tell them that Judo and boxing would inform their Lacrosse and the Lacrosse would inform their Judo/Boxing in terms of body awareness, movement and understanding of good structural positioning for play on the field.
It was very cool to see them roll out of a hit and stand up ready to go or to use the defenders force against them.
Giving kids a break to process information and what they are doing and helping them connect the dots in various aspects of their lives as young men is a great way to raise and get to know our kids as adults.
I love when you post man, always so well thought out
Never thought about doing it specifically that way intentionally but my 10 year old always seems to get more out of training when we take a few days or a week off. He’s in a basketball clinic right now and only training BJJ twice a week & Muay Thai once. After that we plan on getting him into a full league so maybe we can do the 4-6 then off 1-2 thing
