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Is 400 Push-ups in an Hour Considered an Extreme Workout for a TX 6A Football Program?
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:26 am
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:26 am
Maybe more than what’s in the story but how is 400 push-ups in an hour extreme unless the thermostat was cranked up to 120 or something?
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Texas HS football players hospitalized after coach made them do 400 push-ups as punishment
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Several Texas high school football players were hospitalized after they were forced to perform up to 400 push-ups in an hour as punishment by their coach, according to local reports.
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Rockwall-Heath High School head football coach John Harrell is now on leave while a third party conducts an investigation, the school said in a letter to parents, according to Dallas’ Fox station. The alleged incident happened Friday during an eighth-period athletic class at the elite public school just outside Dallas.
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One mother claims her son was forced to do 300 to 400 push-ups with no water breaks, according to the Dallas Morning News, but she did not want to be identified for fear of retaliation. Her son was hospitalized and diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, which can cause kidney damage or failure, the paper reported. At least eight students were hospitalized after the extreme workout, according to the paper. The school learned about what happened Monday and took immediate action, officials explained in the letter to parents.
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Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:28 am to Chad504boy
You make a good point
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:29 am to DingLeeBerry
Depended on who is doing it.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:29 am to DingLeeBerry
I would say that to 99.9 percent of the population, yes. I was in the Army and have been through Air Assault school and we never came close to that in an hour. The symptoms being described is called muscle failure.
This post was edited on 1/12/23 at 8:30 am
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:32 am to alajones
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have been through Air Assault school
High school football summers are more difficult than air assault school haha.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:34 am to DingLeeBerry
yes, very much so...
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:34 am to DingLeeBerry
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as punishment by their coach
Probably wears his 1987 AA state championship ring everywhere and loves talking about his "glory days".
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:35 am to DingLeeBerry
Army PFT max was like 77 in 2 minutes or something
Kids are pussies
Kids are pussies
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:37 am to DingLeeBerry
400 pushups in an hour is a ton. That's 6 - 7pushups every minute. Muscle fatigue is almost guaranteed. I imagine most kids couldn't pull that off.
This post was edited on 1/12/23 at 8:39 am
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:38 am to Proximo
Most people weren’t hitting that number.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:38 am to DingLeeBerry
If you have an hour, that’s only about 7 pushups each minute.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:38 am to DingLeeBerry
If the kids got rhabdo from it then yes it is extreme. It’s not like they were just complaining of being tired, their kidneys were failing
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:39 am to Tornado Alley
Team Captain Defends the Coach
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Junior Brady Luff, a captain of the team, spoke with WFAA to defend Harrell and the coaching staff as questions remain about what happened. "Heath football, it’s a brotherhood… these coaches have treated me with so much respect and have treated me like their son," Luff said. Luff said he was at Friday's workout. Luff said Friday's workout "wasn't any different than any workout we've done before, intensity-wise." "Our motto, it’s the number 16. Sixteen ball games to win a championship. We do these workouts and it’s all about discipline. If we get them right, we move on. If not, we do 16 push-ups," the junior said. He said that players weren't forced to do the workouts. "I've heard people say that we didn't have water and that is not true," Luff said. "We have these big jugs full of water. You can go there in between reps and get water whenever you want. No one was deprived of water."
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Luff said he wishes the best for the players who were hospitalized and added that Harrell had been at the hospital to check on them, as well. "[Coach Harrell] would never make us do a workout thinking it was gonna put any of us at risk," Luff said. "I want people to know that Coach Harrell is a great man and he's treated us with nothing but respect. He loves every single one of us," he added.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:39 am to Bmath
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If you have an hour, that’s only about 7 pushups each minute.
Only 7 pushups per minute for 60 minutes?
Go ahead and give it a try and tell us of your results.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:40 am to DingLeeBerry
400pushups within an hour at 16+?
For a healthy not overweight kid, would say no.
For an overweight kid, yes
For a healthy not overweight kid, would say no.
For an overweight kid, yes
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:41 am to DingLeeBerry
I think for most kids, yes. When I was young and in shape and not the formless slob that I am now, I used to do 300 a day, and it did not take me anywhere an hour to do that. But not all kids are the same. Just because they play football doesn’t automatically make them world beaters.
People shouldn’t do hard exercise as punishment anyway. It creates an association of a good habit with punishment. It’s dumb.
People shouldn’t do hard exercise as punishment anyway. It creates an association of a good habit with punishment. It’s dumb.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:42 am to DingLeeBerry
Back in my day we would do workouts until we threw up and if anyone got rhabdo, coach would make us beat them with a bar of soap in a sock until they stopped being a pussy. He said rhabdo was a made up illness like autism or SIDS
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:42 am to DingLeeBerry
Hey Coach, you're a PE instructor in this class, not a Master Chief instructor in the SEALS. Sure some of the kids probably passed this easily, but you have to know young men have limits.
This post was edited on 1/12/23 at 8:46 am
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:42 am to DingLeeBerry
I would think if it was excessive you wouldn't be able to do them. You're either doing pushups or laying on your stomach. There's really no in-between. .
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