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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 by DingLeeBerry
Member since Oct 2014
10910 posts
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.



Posted by Chad504boy
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Member since Feb 2005
167136 posts
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:27 am to
for vaxxed children, absolutely.
Posted by Loup
Ferriday
Member since Apr 2019
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Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:29 am to
Depended on who is doing it.

Posted by alajones
Huntsvegas
Member since Oct 2005
34533 posts
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:29 am to
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 by chRxis
None of your fricking business
Member since Feb 2008
23810 posts
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:34 am to
yes, very much so...

Posted by GetCocky11
Calgary, AB
Member since Oct 2012
51521 posts
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:34 am to
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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 by Proximo
Member since Aug 2011
15588 posts
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:35 am to
Army PFT max was like 77 in 2 minutes or something

Kids are pussies
Posted by Tornado Alley
Member since Mar 2012
26663 posts
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:37 am to
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 by Bmath
LA
Member since Aug 2010
18692 posts
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:38 am to
If you have an hour, that’s only about 7 pushups each minute.
Posted by Hermit Crab
Under the Sea
Member since Nov 2008
7192 posts
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:38 am to
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 by LSU Coyote
Member since Sep 2007
53390 posts
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:40 am to
400pushups within an hour at 16+?

For a healthy not overweight kid, would say no.

For an overweight kid, yes
Posted by SpqrTiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2004
9294 posts
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:41 am to
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.
Posted by Ingeniero
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2013
18432 posts
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:42 am to
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 by cenlaconvertedsouth
Member since May 2020
285 posts
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:42 am to
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 by LSUballs
RayVegas LA
Member since Feb 2008
37920 posts
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:42 am to
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. .
Posted by HeadSlash
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Member since Aug 2006
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Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:43 am to
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elite public school


Stopped reading right there
Posted by ChatRabbit77
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2013
5865 posts
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:45 am to
Bruh, it's HS football, they arent trying to be Navy SEALs. These coaches take themselves too seriously. I've heard of kids being denied water as well before. So stupid.
Posted by JudgeHolden
Gila River
Member since Jan 2008
18566 posts
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:47 am to
No water breaks. I think that’s the problem.
Posted by GetBackToWork
Member since Dec 2007
6281 posts
Posted on 1/12/23 at 8:59 am to
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300 to 400 push-ups with no water breaks



Any coach enforcing a no water break strenuous endurance activity is asking for trouble, particularly as a punishment. I don't care what was done in the past, this eventually hurts someone. Good luck defending that in court no less.
Posted by LSU Coyote
Member since Sep 2007
53390 posts
Posted on 1/12/23 at 9:00 am to
A bunch of overweight pussies in this thread. At 16+ you felt like you could do pushups forever.

Wtf is wrong with the men here.
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