The worst part about conditioning
July 15, 2008 @ 10:03 a.m. by Joannaby joanna
After watching Conway Springs’ conditioning for football this morning — 6:30 a.m., ugh for me — I started thinking way back to my days of high school volleyball and the conditioning we went through. I vividly remember the heat and humidity of the gyms that had no AC. It was terrible.
But the worst part was the wall squats. Just that burning that hit your thighs. Man, that was terrible.
So what was the worst for you? For that matter, what did you like about conditioning.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:14 am
As a sprinter, I hated the over distance workouts. When I ran at Butler and Coach Isom ran practice, the sprinters had to do the distance workouts. Those nights could be h***. The best part of our conditioning,was how much fun the meets were. In the late 60’s when I ran there, we were tops in the Jayhawk Conf.
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July 15th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Jim, I’m glad to see you’re still coming to the blog.
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July 15th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Prob have issues,lol, but i loved it for the most part . The challenge or the “push” is what i enjoyed. I dont see many with that attitude but there are a few.
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July 15th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I also remember squating against the wall, but I recall HATING the handstands against the wall even more during VB conditioning! I loved volleyball so I was always excited to just be in the gym again, even with no AC.
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July 15th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Don Davis. Enough said.
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July 16th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Runners do it nearly year round. Cross Country conditioning is absolutely necessary for season success. The athletes who put in their base miles (AKA Conditioning, 200-300 miles on average just in the summer months) are normally the athletes who are near the finish first in a XC meet.
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July 16th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Cross Country runners condition nearly year round. Their off season summer conditioning alone consists of over 200-300 miles
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July 16th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
There’s no doubt that cross country runners have to be studs to do that. Talk about dedication — time and competition.
On a sidenote, Panfan, you get caught often in the spam and I can’t figure out why.
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July 18th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
boxing conditioning is by far the hardest and requires the most endurance.
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July 21st, 2008 at 11:49 am
i can imagine that boxing is very hard to add on to that, my teams wrestling workouts are some of the hardest thing i have ever gone through
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July 21st, 2008 at 3:37 pm
i have seen many wrestlers try to keep up with a boxing workout and all have failed miserably.wrestlers do work very hard and i am a fan of wrestling and i have 2 sons who wrestle but until u see a boxers workout you havent seen a real workout.
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July 26th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
yes boxing is an intense workout but a kid can train to gain the same conditioning if they have the desire to do so. Im not discounting The boxing training at all i just know a kid can get a “real workout” without having to join Boxing. It all comes down to the Desire to be great !
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