[The Bacon Man]

I'll test my mile on the treadmill to see how much the past week of football did, I'd say :30 to 1:00. We do some crazy conditioning and endurance stuff.

[picaboo8]

Were the 12 minute and 8 minute mile run done running, not on a treadmill?

[The Bacon Man]

Yup. Both on the same exact track. 12:30 and 8:45.

[The Bacon Man]

I have been doing the weights, Football is killing my knees, but doing great on my legs. My quads and calfs are twice as hard and twice as big. The weights are actually giving me a surprising amount of muscle being 13. I've never done so much cardio in my life as in Football.

In gym we do fitness testing at the start and end of every year. We were doing pushups and situps a day ago. It was an audio tape that said when to go up/down. It had very slow reps. The max they let us do was 20 pushups and 70 crunches, I got 20/70 without an issue, the music stopped before me.

[REDCOBRA]

WTF is up with your fitness testing ? lol
At my school the fitness testing is just beep test , 1 min push ups and plank plus some other training stuff .(In gr 10, I got ~9.5 on the beep test ( improved by 2 levels in a semester) , 45 push ups in 1 min ( improved by 20 in a semester) and a ~3 mins on plank ( in proved by 2 mins in a semester) and 130 skips in 1 min while weighing 200+ lbs )
What type of conditioning are you doing for football?
Has your team done texas miles yet? hehe

[The Bacon Man]

Conditioning has calmed down some. We warm up with a half mile and then stretch. Then we do "lines". Just go in lines and do various sprints and stuff. Then we do the main parts of the practice, 2 parts, we switch halfway through. It is usally agility and something else (hitting, passing, plays, etc). We end the practice with some suicides.

In the beginning it was pretty much 2 1/2 hours of agility and conditioning.

Last year for fitness testing it was just how many pushups and situps in a minute, your mile time and the "Sit and Reach". There were starting to realize that most kids were doing neck pushups and pulling the ground for the situps, so they used the audio and watches us closely.

It used to really piss me off seeing some kid get 54 pushups in a minute and knowing they were just bobbing their head. Then they brag they got so many and everyone buys that shit. Then me and my friends who aren't strong (but stronger than him by far) get some low number.

[REDCOBRA]

Your practice sounds a lot like mine
Yeah it really bugs me when i see kids half ass pushups but I love it when those kids come to play football and get their asses kicked by the coach when they pull that shit

[The Bacon Man]

Yeah I always try my hardest, I can't stand the kids who jog through everything. Out of everyone in my weight and height group I probably have some of the worst endurance, I still give it my all. More often than not I'll gag during practice from doing so much.

Fitness testing in gym today was total bs. We had to do pullups, if we couldn't do them, we used a power rack and layed down and did them. I could do 8 real pullups, I've worked hard to get there, I couldn't do 1 a year ago. Some kids were doing half-chin ups with an underhand grip.

The worst part is the teachers had students write down everything, they didn't ask if it was regular pull ups or the modified.

On a side note, I'm going to start adding AB workouts to my scedual. It can only help, especially in football. The one I'll be doing is perhaps the only good thing Scooby's workshop has produced. Pick a weight you can do 3-6 crunches with. Do this without stopping:

Crunches till failure @ 100% weight.
Bicycles till failure @ 100% weight.
Repeat both at 50% weight.
Repeat both with no weight.
3 sets, 5 minute break.

It feels like lava injected into your abs with lightheadedness and fatigue but it does work.

[The Bacon Man]

100 LB Bench.

[Globemasta III]

quit maxin out man its not good or necessary for u

[The Bacon Man]

I'm just testing it, I'm not working out with that weight.

[Globemasta III]

i get that but its easy to get hurt maxing out

[A&MBaller]

Globemasta III, on 30 September 2012 - 08:30 AM, said:

i get that but its easy to get hurt maxing out

Your right, but if you know what your doing it shouldn't be an issue.

[The Bacon Man]

I've been doing it with proper form and when I can't do it I push it off to the side and get out from under it. Sounds dangerous but I could do it with my eyes closed.

[Globemasta III]

The Bacon Man, on 30 September 2012 - 11:14 AM, said:

I've been doing it with proper form and when I can't do it I push it off to the side and get out from under it. Sounds dangerous but I could do it with my eyes closed.

lol this... is dumb... just calculate it online and only try it once every two months.. trust me

[Woodyballer29]

Actually if you can do like 2 or 3 reps of say 100lbs. bench press, that's better than doing 10 reps of 90lbs. You gain muscle faster that way.

[The Bacon Man]

Just a little update. I haven't really been working out these past 2 weeks, starting up again now. My life has been school, football, eat, shower and sleep for the past month, I just didn't have the energy.

We are doing so much cardio in Football that I now have a pretty nice 6 pack, it actually looks like I worked really hard for it. I didn't lose weight so it is all good. On top of that I feel like my arms are much thicker.

In P.T. I've been doing stretches because part of why I hurt my knees is my hamstrings. They are dangerously tight, I used to be able to only reach mid way down my shin when stretching. It's getting much better.

In Football I've become much better overnight, I'm actually really good at blocking.

As far as physical health, it's improved 100% over the past month.

[Woodyballer29]

Sounds great man! I haven't been able to workout these past few weeks either, been to busy.

[The Bacon Man]

Yeah even though we have weekends I'm with my friends all weekend so I forget. Football does enough to hold me over though. We did this one thing yesterday for muscle endurance. We did burpees, shuffling our feet in between reps for 10 secs. 10 burpees, 20 pushups, 10 burpees, 29 pushups, etc. I think we did 40 burpees and 80 pushups. Everyone gave up after 5-10 pushups, I felt like the only one trying. My chest is on fire today

*20 pushups not 29, too lazy to edit.

[The Bacon Man]

In the past for my 31 pushup max I did it a little wider than I should have. I couldn't do as many with the right grip thinking back. I just did 35 really solid pushups. Shoulder width exactly, one fluid motion (arms didn't go to the side) and my nose hit the ground every time. Couldn't do 25 of these a month or two ago.

So I don't hurt my knees again I can't squat, haven't squared since the first week of football. I'm gonna start doing leg extensions/curls on my bench. Better than nothing.