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Your Two-A-Day Experiences from Yesteryear
Posted on 8/9/13 at 11:45 am
Posted on 8/9/13 at 11:45 am
How did your Two-A-Day practices compare to what the SEC teams are going through now? Judging from the pics, things aren't like what I experienced.
HS ball from 86-88:
Practice Schedule = Two-a-Day
Contact = Helmets only for the first three days and then full pads.
Breaks = ice and water at one break only. No shade, misters or big fans. Coaches would get onto us for filling our helmets with ice and water and drinking from it, but that's all we had.
DII ball from 88-92:
Practice Schedule = Three-a-Days (third practice was skeleton drill)
Contact = Full pads, going to the ground starting with first practice.
Breaks = had a few more water breaks but still no shade, fans or misters. Just a PVC pipe with multiple holes drilled in it as drinking stations.
If your arse had spent the summer under the AC then everyone would know by the second day of practice. There were always about 1 or 2 guys who decided to take the summer off. I never wanted to be in their shoes. Can't tell you how many freshman guys just walked off the field or didn't bother to come to the next practice.
Also, the dryer in the field house wasn't worth a shite so your jock was always wet from the morning's practice!
Anytime I smell cut grass in August, I immediately think of these practices.
HS ball from 86-88:
Practice Schedule = Two-a-Day
Contact = Helmets only for the first three days and then full pads.
Breaks = ice and water at one break only. No shade, misters or big fans. Coaches would get onto us for filling our helmets with ice and water and drinking from it, but that's all we had.
DII ball from 88-92:
Practice Schedule = Three-a-Days (third practice was skeleton drill)
Contact = Full pads, going to the ground starting with first practice.
Breaks = had a few more water breaks but still no shade, fans or misters. Just a PVC pipe with multiple holes drilled in it as drinking stations.
If your arse had spent the summer under the AC then everyone would know by the second day of practice. There were always about 1 or 2 guys who decided to take the summer off. I never wanted to be in their shoes. Can't tell you how many freshman guys just walked off the field or didn't bother to come to the next practice.
Also, the dryer in the field house wasn't worth a shite so your jock was always wet from the morning's practice!
Anytime I smell cut grass in August, I immediately think of these practices.
This post was edited on 8/9/13 at 11:52 am
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Posted on 8/9/13 at 11:58 am to Stuttgart Tiger
frick morning practices. That's all I'm going to say.
Posted on 8/9/13 at 12:29 pm to Stuttgart Tiger
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If your arse had spent the summer under the AC then everyone would know by the second day of practice. There were always about 1 or 2 guys who decided to take the summer off. I never wanted to be in their shoes. Can't tell you how many freshman guys just walked off the field or didn't bother to come to the next practice.
You are exactly right. This is why heat related illness is more common now. Kids spend the summer inside and aren't acclimated. What's even worse is the morons that go take a cold shower or sit in the AC between two-a-days. That makes it worse. Even with water breaks every 20-30 minutes, they drop like flies the first few days of practice.
When we were kids, we didn't spend all summer inside playing video games. Mom made our asses play outside all day. And I'm not old, it's just that staying inside all day was not an option for us. I never had a heat stroke.
Now, it's a different story. My arse would die if I had to be outside in the heat all day.
Eta: And every locker room I have ever been in has "that smell". The smell of wet, partially moldy jock straps and practice jerseys. It is a smell like no other.
This post was edited on 8/9/13 at 12:32 pm
Posted on 8/9/13 at 12:55 pm to Stuttgart Tiger
2006-2010
We went to camp for a week at Georgia Military College. 3- days with lifting after lunch. No A/C in the dorms, first week of August.
Full pads practice from 8-11 am. Lunch at noon. Special teams walk through and lifting from 1-3. Full pads practice from 6- whenever coach decided we were done that night. Most of the time around 11.
If you didn't make the required minimum summer conditioning workouts (I believe it was 25) you had to get up at 5 am and run 4 miles every morning until the number was met.
It was so hot in the dorms the only way to sleep at night was to fake a rolled ankle, get a bag of ice for it, and sleep with it on your chest.
I lost twenty pounds at that hell-hole one year. Hated every second of it.
We went to camp for a week at Georgia Military College. 3- days with lifting after lunch. No A/C in the dorms, first week of August.
Full pads practice from 8-11 am. Lunch at noon. Special teams walk through and lifting from 1-3. Full pads practice from 6- whenever coach decided we were done that night. Most of the time around 11.
If you didn't make the required minimum summer conditioning workouts (I believe it was 25) you had to get up at 5 am and run 4 miles every morning until the number was met.
It was so hot in the dorms the only way to sleep at night was to fake a rolled ankle, get a bag of ice for it, and sleep with it on your chest.
I lost twenty pounds at that hell-hole one year. Hated every second of it.
Posted on 8/9/13 at 12:55 pm to Stuttgart Tiger
Saw a guy get part of his ear torn off during a practice in August of 2006. Got his helmet turned around violently.
Posted on 8/9/13 at 12:57 pm to Stuttgart Tiger
On mobile so not typing everything out.
But I played baseball, football and basketball in high school. So summers were awful. Not to mention AAU and travel baseball.
College basketball schedule was brutal. 5 am weights, running and agility usually. Then of course practice for anywhere between 3-5 hours. Total about 8 hours a day usually.
During school was brutal too because my schedule didn't match up with the rest of the team so I had 1 on 1 weights and running with our strength coach.
But I played baseball, football and basketball in high school. So summers were awful. Not to mention AAU and travel baseball.
College basketball schedule was brutal. 5 am weights, running and agility usually. Then of course practice for anywhere between 3-5 hours. Total about 8 hours a day usually.
During school was brutal too because my schedule didn't match up with the rest of the team so I had 1 on 1 weights and running with our strength coach.
Posted on 8/9/13 at 1:35 pm to Stuttgart Tiger
I did 2 a days 3, 4 times a week for 50 out of 52 weeks of the year from 13-20ish. Only day we had off was Sundays... most of those years were under the repressive, ball busting 2012 Olympic head coach. Some days we swam north of 15 miles on top of dry land or weights. I will say in July-Sep I'd much rather be in the pool... but getting out of an outdoor pool next to a river in Dec/ Jan was straight terrible even in FL.
Posted on 8/9/13 at 2:35 pm to Stuttgart Tiger
Morning Practice was insane. After we put the pads on it was pads in the morning and late afternoon, helmet and shorts mid day for what was essentially three a days.
And we still fricking sucked.
Or our line did.
And we still fricking sucked.
Or our line did.
Posted on 8/9/13 at 2:43 pm to Stuttgart Tiger
I have vomited through a facemask at the end of a snake drill.
Posted on 8/10/13 at 5:36 am to Stuttgart Tiger
3 a day's for the first 4 days and then 2 a day's for it seems like 2 weeks. Morning practice helmet and shoulders, mid day was helmets and shoulders for special teams and evening practice full gear with scrimmage. Slept in gym I. Sleeping bags, literally the dumbest thing I had ever seen Sleeping on a hard gym floor after about eight hours of practice in the August heat. We still sucked that year.
Posted on 8/10/13 at 8:54 am to Stuttgart Tiger
I only played football for one day; however, I did play soccer in high school and we had to play multiple games in one day at some tournaments. Those were a bitch.
Posted on 8/10/13 at 10:19 am to Stuttgart Tiger
Walking out of the lockeroom in the mississippi summer in full pads was the absolute worst. As soon as you step out the door a wave of heat hits you and you immediately begin to sweat.
Posted on 8/10/13 at 2:57 pm to Stuttgart Tiger
Our coach was a dumbass who ran full pads all camp and the day before games. We did a full body two days before a game and Oklahoma drills the day before games. We ran far too much too. Two a days were a nightmare.
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