Halftime Recovery and Fueling Protocol

Second halves get lost in the locker room more often than coaches admit.

For most teams, halftime fueling is whatever happens to be there — a bag of candy, nothing at all, or seventeen athletes guessing seventeen different ways. Fifteen minutes later they open the second half flat, and the fourth-quarter fade gets blamed on conditioning.

This one-page protocol replaces the guessing with a standard: what your athletes take in at halftime, in what form, and why — built for a real 15-minute halftime and a real school budget.

Post it in the locker room before the next game. Halftime runs itself, and your team comes out of the tunnel fueled instead of hoping.

What you get: a one-page PDF protocol sheet, ready to print and post. From a strength coach with 20+ years in collegiate weight rooms — the same standard he ran with his own teams.