Practicing once a week in the fall and winter alone will get you 20-25 practices. Once a week in March and April is another 8 more. Then twice a week in May, June and Half of July is another 20 more. Getting in 50 practices is not going overboard. I think that's s reasonable/achievable number. Most of the boys play football in the fall, I imagine, so going twice a week is probably a bad idea. Fall tournaments are meaningless anyway. Last year I put my guy in some trainings in the winter to go along with his weekly practice. I saw a big difference. The most important thing is making sure your son wants to go. If he ever tells you he doesn't want to go to practice then you're probably burning him out. It happens pretty often and generally means dad wants it a lot more than the kid.
