I remember having to do a lot of pushups in basic training.
Wusses…. they used to do this in august. More of the feminization of America.
“Without water breaks”
This guy is a coach? A football coach? An expert?
I wonder what Johnny would say.
I expect that any one who wasn’t fit enough to manage this in a half-hour wouldn’t make JV.
My impressions of the past may be clouded by time, however. Your thoughts would be appreciated.
I could do 3 or 4 with 57 minutes left to rest up.
Gee, I’d been thinking that dumb sh*t high school football coaches like this had gone the way of the dinosaur by now. But I guess not in Texas.
Where did he think he was...Parris Island ?
The “fat body” platoon was next to the mess hall out at the
rifle range and we often heard pogues yelling...
“Sir, the count on deck is SIX hundred side straddle hops!!
SIR !!!”.
One sport I regret playing in high school was football. My team had an alcoholic jackass as a coach who’d do crap like this routinely. We were the worst team because no one knew what they were doing, we were too busy barfing. Another charming thing he used to do was berate my mother (she handled payroll) because he thought she was shorting him on pay. Of course he was always whiskey drunk. If I got a do-over, I’d knock his drunk teeth out right before quitting the team.
that’s a lot of pushups to do in 1 hour. What a jerk
In 6th grade our wrestling coach punished me and Andy Smyth for screwing around by giving us each 1000 sit-ups. We did them. I couldn’t bend at the waist for a week. I also didn’t screw around at wrestling practice after that.
My high school swim coach was a former Marine DI. I could see him doing something like this. We did a lot of push-ups in our ground workouts. Not necessarily 400 at once, but sets of 50 or 100 interspersed between chin-ups, running drills, leg lift/holds and other fun stuff.
Nobody complained. We liked our coach. We weren’t forced to be on the swim team. 😏
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fISgKl8dB3M
Sorry not a hot link...haven't mastered that yet
In military College they could only do sets of ten. But there was no time limit. We would be “up” for a while. Then 2 inches off the deck, for a while. Then back in a “forward leaning rest” position for a while.
In essence, we did 30 minute planks pretty much every day for a couple months.
A couple hundred push-ups would have been a nice break.
Those were the days….
The Coach immediate declared himself to be trans, changed genders and is now the opposite color of what he...err...she was prior to the incident.
45 seconds of rest after each set.
I could do that, but hot weather would make it unpleasant.
Also, a hernia risk.
The coach will get fired and may have personal liability.
The guys with muscle injuries or kidney issues were probably trying to knock it out with sets of 20-25.
Bad idea. Once you exhaust a muscle, you need way more than a couple minutes to recover.
That’s about 7 pushups per minute, if you pace yourself. For a 17 year old athlete, do we really think this is too much?
My PE teacher in grade school in 1968-1970 was a former Marine DI. Every PE class started out with calisthenics. After that he would have us line up, toes on the line, chins on your right shoulder and count off by whatever team sizes were (4, 6 and so on). This was always comical because we were a bunch of 3rd or 4th graders so it would take several attempts for everyone to get it right. When someone messed up the count, we would start over.
During one class we were playing fleece ball (indoor baseball with a soft fleece ball). For every run scored the team in the field would have to stop and do 10 pushups. The other team scored 20 runs so my team ended up doing 200 pushups during a 45-minute class period. As a 10-year-old, my chest was locked up along with several of my classmates. My dad who was a retired USA Chief Warrant Officer took me to school that morning with the intent on whipping this guy’s ass. After my dad got done chewing this guy’s ass (the principal stepped in between the 2) the principal then jumped his ass.
After that we were never subjected to Marine Corps basic training again. We still did calisthenics, but the over-the-top hardcore stuff stopped.