Those not involved with winter sports have been preparing themselves physically for the next year’s football season. All of the coaches are excited for the talent and hard work that they see in this team and we are working harder in this preseason that ever before. We have been weightlifting and are making some vast improvements and are also working on our agility, not to mention that we are working on coming together as a team and becoming familiar with our new teammates.
The Cougar football team and I have been lifting every school day, except on Wednesdays. On Wednesdays we perform mat drills (which are similar to the ones done during the weightlifting competition at Washington High School), which are rigorous workout routines primarily done without weights involved. There about 25 of us in their every Wednesday along with Coach Lewis, varsity coach, and Coach Meyers, sophomore coach. We really get the sweat and blood going as we do various agility and endurance drills in tune with the rock music listened to by Coach Lewis when he was a football player.
We never take a break during this Wednesday morning session at 6. It is non- stop movement and many times a few of the guys that brave eating anything before these workouts fill the wrestling room with the smell of their vomit. Oh the joy of football. We all make a few jokes at them and then they are right back at it like the rest of us. It is evident that we can’t all be excited at waking up at 5 and throwing our bodies to the extreme, but we are coming together as a team. There is nothing quite like brutal tests of endurance and strength (of mind and arm) to bring young men together. As we are there to encourage and help one another and there to let the other know they feel the same thing that there companion is feeling.
I’m looking forward to seeing all my teammates together again this summer, but the weightlifters all understand that are other teammates are working hard in other sports and representing Kennedy. The Cougars this year will own Kingston’s turf, and will own all of Iowa’s football fields after the race to the dome has been won.
The Cougar football team and I have been lifting every school day, except on Wednesdays. On Wednesdays we perform mat drills (which are similar to the ones done during the weightlifting competition at Washington High School), which are rigorous workout routines primarily done without weights involved. There about 25 of us in their every Wednesday along with Coach Lewis, varsity coach, and Coach Meyers, sophomore coach. We really get the sweat and blood going as we do various agility and endurance drills in tune with the rock music listened to by Coach Lewis when he was a football player.
We never take a break during this Wednesday morning session at 6. It is non- stop movement and many times a few of the guys that brave eating anything before these workouts fill the wrestling room with the smell of their vomit. Oh the joy of football. We all make a few jokes at them and then they are right back at it like the rest of us. It is evident that we can’t all be excited at waking up at 5 and throwing our bodies to the extreme, but we are coming together as a team. There is nothing quite like brutal tests of endurance and strength (of mind and arm) to bring young men together. As we are there to encourage and help one another and there to let the other know they feel the same thing that there companion is feeling.
I’m looking forward to seeing all my teammates together again this summer, but the weightlifters all understand that are other teammates are working hard in other sports and representing Kennedy. The Cougars this year will own Kingston’s turf, and will own all of Iowa’s football fields after the race to the dome has been won.
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