WackityWhiz
10-29-2005, 01:23 PM
I want to see if my high school coaches had similar workout/conditioning schedules that ya'll had.
8th grade: Pretty demanding, we ran a lot at the end of practice. My school had a lightweight and heavyweight class in which the cutoff was 125 lbs. I was on the heavyweight team and I remember the lightweight team sitting on the hill watching us run. I remember in a few instances where we ran 6-8 100 yd sprints. This seemed really brutal at the time. We also had this run called the "warrior run" in which we would start on the goalline and run the width of the field, when we got to the sidline, we ran to the 10 yd line and ran the width of the field, then out to the 20, etc. There was this really fat kid on the team and he would always be the last one to finish. Our coach would always chant "Hamburgers, just think about Hamburgers." Needless to say, he was fired a few years later for chewing tobacco during class and hitting on all the 8th grade girls.
Freshman: There was a decent sized hill (I'd say 25 ft tall) and we would get tortured on it. Usually had to do 15 or so, but I remember a few times that we ran 20 or 25. We had a sick workout called the gauntlet where we would have to bear crawl the width of the field, side step for 25 yards, then come back doing somersaults. Then the next time, we'd bear crawl, sidestep, then sprint. It was tough.
Sophomore: Nothing complicated like the others, just a lot of running. We would do 3 laps sprinting around the outside of the field. Then other days we would end practice with cross-fields where we would start on the sideline, run across and touch the other sideline, then run back. We would usually do 4-5 of these. Then of course there were the dreaded up-downs.
Varsity: This was the easiest conditioning wise as we didn't run all that much. Our coach just expected us to be in the weight room and get things done. We are pretty much the leading powerhouse in the state of Iowa, so the coaches are doing something right.
We were expected to workout in the weightroom Mon-Thur. Mondays and Wednesdays were arms/shoulders, Tues/Thurs was legs and abs. In the summer we had the same schedule.
8th grade: Pretty demanding, we ran a lot at the end of practice. My school had a lightweight and heavyweight class in which the cutoff was 125 lbs. I was on the heavyweight team and I remember the lightweight team sitting on the hill watching us run. I remember in a few instances where we ran 6-8 100 yd sprints. This seemed really brutal at the time. We also had this run called the "warrior run" in which we would start on the goalline and run the width of the field, when we got to the sidline, we ran to the 10 yd line and ran the width of the field, then out to the 20, etc. There was this really fat kid on the team and he would always be the last one to finish. Our coach would always chant "Hamburgers, just think about Hamburgers." Needless to say, he was fired a few years later for chewing tobacco during class and hitting on all the 8th grade girls.
Freshman: There was a decent sized hill (I'd say 25 ft tall) and we would get tortured on it. Usually had to do 15 or so, but I remember a few times that we ran 20 or 25. We had a sick workout called the gauntlet where we would have to bear crawl the width of the field, side step for 25 yards, then come back doing somersaults. Then the next time, we'd bear crawl, sidestep, then sprint. It was tough.
Sophomore: Nothing complicated like the others, just a lot of running. We would do 3 laps sprinting around the outside of the field. Then other days we would end practice with cross-fields where we would start on the sideline, run across and touch the other sideline, then run back. We would usually do 4-5 of these. Then of course there were the dreaded up-downs.
Varsity: This was the easiest conditioning wise as we didn't run all that much. Our coach just expected us to be in the weight room and get things done. We are pretty much the leading powerhouse in the state of Iowa, so the coaches are doing something right.
We were expected to workout in the weightroom Mon-Thur. Mondays and Wednesdays were arms/shoulders, Tues/Thurs was legs and abs. In the summer we had the same schedule.