re: Your Two-A-Day Experiences from Yesteryear

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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.

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Sounds like my HS experience.

Coaches took us to a 1 week "voluntary camp" for the first week in pads. Slept in dorms with no A/C. Four a days, with 3 practices in pads. No film room stuff, everything on the field though pratices were video taped for the coaches to review at night.

6am-7:30am: Special teams, started practice with kickoff/kickoff coverage, then punt/punt returns. Full speed, full pads. Great way to start the day. Full on hitting.

9:30-11:30am: Offense practice.

3pm-6pm: Deffensive practice/scrimmage.

7pm: Conditioning (sometimes including puking dinner back up).

The 7pm conditioning was pretty dumb and resulted in a team revolt by most of the upperclassmen on day 4 of camp. This was followed by the coaches waking everyone up at 4am the next morning for an extra conditioning practice to remind us they were still in charge. This was followed by the entire team having to stay in "LSU" position for 20 minutes after conditioning to be lectured about the previous evening's "uprising".

Literally the worst week of my life I think.