A little football content. Team working the hill
Like a junkie - I tell myself I won’t, but I keep crawling back to the hype content. And I love it every time.
Don’t do it to yourself Pete….
After 55 years... I'm with Pete!
It could be worse...you could be one of the posters flocking to the football threads telling us how unexcited they are for football.
I get it though. I am really trying to get excited about football. I keep coming to all of the football posts to try to stoke the flames of my enthusiasm. I guess the big difference is that I don't post comment about my lack of excitement.
My daughter is getting married in October and I'm not as distraught as I normally would be, and that's weird to me. This will cause me to miss more than the one game with all of the prep leading up to the wedding. I wish I was more upset. Hopefully my enthusiasm grows as the season actually starts.
Congratulations,I always say weddings and funerals bring out the worst in people.I hope you have a drama free event.
Pete, it’s not a crime to be excited for Michigan’s football season, although some around these parts believe otherwise.
We are fans. We love our team. Absolutely nothing wrong with falling for hype. I do it every season and I’m proud to admit it.
Me too, Pete.
Me three, Blue Vet.
Same -- I bitch about the program a lot, but I still eat up every piece of FB content on here.
Sweet, sweet content.....
Was one dude running in a sports bra?
It's called a Manzier!
No, it's the Bro!
MANZIER!
OK, I thought the same thing, so I froze the screen at that moment. There were actually two guys in sports bras running against each other.
I'm wondering if this is Harbaugh's version of RichRod removing the wings on the helmet. If you do something wrong, you need to practice in a sports bra?
Couldn’t make it out for sure on there but it looked like it said Catapult on the front so my guess is it’s a continuous heart rate monitor or some other kind of wearable providing data back to the staff
That said shit looked like a sports bra for real
Why can't wearable med detectors be placed into a sports bra? Multi-function fashion! I mean, those OL and DL (real DL, not the build-a-DL we're used to) probably should be wearing bro's/manziers when they run, anyway. This is genius!
Yup this is what those gyms like OrangeTheory use. When my GF signed up last year, they offered the wrist watch, an arm band, or the chest one.
Ding ding ding! Looks like there are several companies that offer similar products.
Genuinely psyched.
Now will hurt worse.
I know that hill. That's Vet's park.
Thank you, I didn't know where that was.
I honestly expected at least one clip of guys tripping, falling, and then rolling back down the hill.
Need to bring in Ted Lasso to coach for a few weeks.
We ain't dead. Let's f*cking go.
Go Blue.
Remember doing that in high school football and college rowing. Running DOWN the hill in high school was supposed to do something, but all it did was lead to face plants.
From cross country—basketball only did wind sprints on the court—I think those face plants suggest the point of running down steep hills, to run under control.
Running under control is easy to do on a straightaway, up hill, and on a slight decline. It's like walking but faster.
However, running down hills requires more control, harder to do when you're tired from the run up.
We run down hills in football training to teach kids how to a) run under control and b) lengthen their strides.
Running down hill is an eccentric exercise vs concentric running up hill. Eccentric is great training for skiers.
From google.
This type of training not only toughens the connective tissue such as tendons and muscles, but can also increase recruitment of muscle fibers.
There are 2 types of isotonic contractions: concentric and eccentric. In a concentric contraction, the muscle tension rises to meet the resistance then remains stable as the muscle shortens. During eccentric contraction, the muscle lengthens as the resistance becomes greater than the force the muscle is producing.
I just learned something new today.
"...but can also increase recruitment of muscle fibers."
Are these 4* or 5* fibers? MAGNUS - we need a muscle fiber eval, stat!!! Are Sam's balls going blue for these things?
I vaguely remember our coach saying it would promote quicker turnover in our strides. Not sure if there is an validity to that. Just sucked spending an hour at the hill running both up and down the hill. No break.
Fun Fact - you can only out run a grizzly bear going down hill. So, there is a real world application for this skill.
They showed more of this than the Spring Game. I’m not gonna lie, I’m generally interested for 2021.
Beat Western Michigan please.
I've been running one of the hills at Vet's Park a couple times per week in the warm weather for a few years now. Up and down 20 times without stopping is a good workout, even if you're as old and slow as I am.
Don! I'm seriously impressed that you've kept doing it.
I've been running steps at Michigan Stadium for two decades.
Until they closed off access to the public after the skyboxes were built, I would run the steps in the south end zone several times each summer. 5 times up and down without stopping, and by the fifth trip I would be pretty gassed at the top of the stadium. Great view and great workout.
One of those days was in 2003 when the natural grass was being torn up for the Field Turf replacement, and I went down onto the field to get a close look at the work. I saw firsthand why the sod was coming loose in big chunks—there was no more than an inch of actual dirt floating on a bed of sand.
Once the stadium was closed off, I started running the outside steps at the east entrance. Up and down 35 times for 1,120 steps total with pushups at the top each trip.
Well if there’s a hill running contest introduced as a new way to win in Overtime guess who is gonna be prepared for that shit!
If only Ohio State was a hill...
Dammit!
Thanks, ldevon1, for posting this. It's great fun as hype, and for vicariously sharing the camaraderie.
It's also a reminder that ideas of "tough" change. Back in the day, to be tough meant long workouts in the heat of August WITHOUT water. While some seemed to thrive, we now know they mostly survived, with dehydration not improving fitness or toughness. And others died.
Much like how Oregon has the crowned field, Michigan needs to have a sloped field where one endzone is about 50ft higher than the other. We'd win every home game if we just practiced running up and down hills for a couple hours a day.
There's one real takeaway from this video, and that's that the Ann Arbor area car dealers need to get to work! The intro features headlights from a 90's Tahoe or Suburan and a previous Gen Ford Ranger. C'mon local dealer network, let's get these guys into new rides with NIL!
I believe I saw them doing this 2 years ago except they were all running down the hill.