Posted on 01/12/2023 11:06:11 AM PST by Morgana
Eight high school students in Texas have been hospitalized after their football coach forced them to do 400 push-ups in an hour without any breaks.
Rockwall-Heath High School Head Football Coach, John Harrell, has been put on administrative leave after he reportedly forced students to do 300 to 400 push-ups during an eighth-period athletic class on Friday.
A mother, who did not want to be identified, claimed the football players were forced to do the intense workout without water breaks, according to Fox 4 News.
She said her son was diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis - the breakdown of muscle tissue that can release damaging proteins into the bloodstream, which can cause kidney damage or failure.
It is unclear what the other seven students were diagnosed with. None of the players' identities have been released.
Principal Todd Bradford addressed the situation on Monday, writing in a letter to student-athlete parents: 'On Monday, January 9, 2023, several parents reported that their student(s) subsequently needed medical attention, and in some cases, hospitalization. Please know the District immediately implemented measures to address the situation and provide support for our students.'
It also advised parents to inform their students to see the trainer if they experience not being able to 'bend or extend your arms, unable to lift arms above your head, dark urine (tea or cola-colored), and sharp arm pain,' as well as, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, confusion, or lethargy.
'Student safety is a top priority for Rockwall IDS and we will continue to take immediate and appropriate measures in the best interests of our students as we address this situation,' the letter said.
The Dallas-based school has also launched a third-party investigation into the incident and said students who attended the class on Monday did a light, nonstrenuous workout.
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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?
Here I. NJ a high school football coach had two of his player lift an over 300 pound log. Long story short one of the boys died when his head was crushed.
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.
More like video gaming, nose stuck in their phones and never walk anywhere generation.
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. 😏
“This guy is a coach? A football coach? An expert?”
The keyboard tough guys here support him 100%.
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….
I played high school football at a top Texas football high school, I don’t think this guy would have found a spot among our huge football coaching staff.
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