It's summer's game within the game at West Albany, and it has received credit for what the Bulldogs have accomplished across the athletic board the past four school years.
The four-day-a-week schedule includes weight training throughout, and speed and quickness drills and football skill development work two days apiece.
The results of those extra hours have paid dividends.
"I think it has a lot to do with our success," said West Albany football and track and field coach Randy Nyquist. "I think it's a great thing. I think it's an important part of what we do."
The speed and quickness work, which was part of the workout Monday, is organized by Don Lien, West Albany's baseball coach and an assistant football coach.
Lien, also a teacher, spent three years traveling the country running clinics before coming to West more than a decade ago.
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He's also helped develop speed workouts for baseball teams and is still occasionally involved in collegiate baseball camps.
"This training takes your kid who is kind of an average athlete and makes him above average," Lien said. "Your kid who is kind of struggling a little bit, it gives them (more) athleticism."
For the higher-level athletes, it gives them more confidence when they take the field, court or track.
The training includes both male and female athletes, with participants from the football, volleyball, basketball, cross country and track and field teams.
Much of the speed and quickness work focuses on balance and how that contributes to making faster movements.
A baseball batter preparing to head to first base or a football receiver catching a pass are suddenly 100-meter sprinters.
"To teach a kid to apply force and move a body with balance, it crosses the border with any sport," Lien said.
The training also includes resistance training, side-to-side movement and footwork drills. Most of the West Albany football staff were running the drills Monday.
Some young people need extra motivation to spend time during the summer working to improve.
But Lien says athletes enjoy the workouts because they don't involve long sprints or distance training.
"This is short bursts of quick, explosive movement. Then the variety keeps them attached," he said. "It keeps them engaged because it's challenging. There's some explosive pieces to it. They understand why it's helping them."
Lien and Nyquist, who both came to West Albany at the same time, have a similar philosophy in that they believe taking time with the athletes with produce results.
There are plenty of opportunities in the summer to attend sports camps to compete in the actual activities.
But there's more than just running, passing and catching a football or shooting a basketball.
"Everybody wants to ... play, play, play," Nyquist said. "But I think if you reap what you sow, you make the investment and be committed to being in the weight room and work on your speed and agility, those are the two key ingredients."