Lift off!

As the URI football ball team begins the second semester and begin preparing for the 09’ season we are about to face one of our worst fears WINTER WORK OUTS! Some of you reading this blog are probobaly wondering what exactly winter workouts are anyway. Well first let me put it like this its something you would not want to experience. Now let me begin my rundown. Based on last years experience this is what one week of winter workouts look like. First on Sundays at 9 o’clock at night, we would meet in keaney gym and wait for futher intructions from the coach. Usually we would go through a series of drills and finish off with mat drills. Mat drills are focus drills. It is all about following directions and if you mess up, I feel sorry for you because you have to run up the stairs and around the horsehoe in keaney gym, which surely will tire you out. The more you run the harder it is to focus. When fatigue sets in all you are worried about is catching your breath. Then we would come back Monday night at 10:00pm and have to repeat Sunday’s workout. Finally Tuesday would come and your body would be on E (empty no fuel whatsoever) kids would be missing class but you didn’t want to do that or else, you getting into trouble would cut in on your resting time. We absolutely cherished our resting time. However before you knew it Wednesday morning would be here and we would be getting ready for another winter workout with drills and then on top of that a 2mile run it was devastating physically but well worth it in the long run. On Thursday, we would go again at 10 o’clock at night and do all physically draining drills. Kids would be dropping out left and right. Only the strong survived. And the weak parished---it was as if we were in a war movie or something the coches would be yelling and screaming and talking to us like the opening scene in Full Metal Jacket check it out (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Nf1MK7lts). Anyway, the day wasn’t all-bad at least on Thursday we knew the battle was over and we could go off into our weekend feeling tired….but good. We repeated the process for about 4 more weeks by the end we begin to get use to the workout so things slowly but surely became easier and the war was over we became a better team for it. I expect this year to be similar to last year but maybe a lil easier because we know what to expect and kids are in much better shape this year. However, the ultimate outcome will be the same; We are going to only get better as a team.