Aaron Curry Scares Me

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Ethan Reeve, the head strength and conditioning coach at Wake Forest, has his football players do a drill called "Game Day" at the end of summer conditioning. Every minute for 50 minutes, the players do one or two power cleans. Some athletes use more than 300 pounds for all 50 sets.

This is Curry's 40th rep.

Dude is a straight up monster.

[RashanGary]

I can clean 135

[RashanGary]

I can deadlift 300, but there is no way in high hell I could ever clean it. That takes an extreme amount of power. I think if I worked on my technique, I could be up to 225 in a couple months.

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That's 374 60 times. That's a ton. Looks like he is getting pretty tired in that vid though as he is begging for a knee injury.

[The_Dude]

Technique looks a little funny (lifting a lot with his back), either way though, he's pretty strong

[Patler]

Re: Aaron Curry Scares Me

Ethan Reeve, the head strength and conditioning coach at Wake Forest, has his football players do a drill called "Game Day" at the end of summer conditioning. Every minute for 50 minutes, the players do one or two power cleans. Some athletes use more than 300 pounds for all 50 sets.

This is Curry's 40th rep.

Yup, if he ever has to pickup a tackle from the ground and raise him to his chest at the end of a game, he can maybe do it!

Seriously though, why does this scare you? As long as a player has sufficient functional strength, weight room antics such as these are not very significant to me. Kenny Peterson set all kinds of weight room records at Ohio State. Jamal Reynolds was reported to be a very high level weight room performer. What did it get them?

[Fritz]

Re: Aaron Curry Scares Me

Ethan Reeve, the head strength and conditioning coach at Wake Forest, has his football players do a drill called "Game Day" at the end of summer conditioning. Every minute for 50 minutes, the players do one or two power cleans. Some athletes use more than 300 pounds for all 50 sets.

This is Curry's 40th rep.

Yup, if he ever has to pickup a tackle from the ground and raise him to his chest at the end of a game, he can maybe do it!

Seriously though, why does this scare you? As long as a player has sufficient functional strength, weight room antics such as these are not very significant to me. Kenny Peterson set all kinds of weight room records at Ohio State. Jamal Reynolds was reported to be a very high level weight room performer. What did it get them?

Weight room records.

[Kiwon]

To an amateur like me, the strength and stamina is very impressive but the drill looks like a recipe for an injury as players tire and their form degrades.

Amazing athletes though.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Re: Aaron Curry Scares Me

Ethan Reeve, the head strength and conditioning coach at Wake Forest, has his football players do a drill called "Game Day" at the end of summer conditioning. Every minute for 50 minutes, the players do one or two power cleans. Some athletes use more than 300 pounds for all 50 sets.

This is Curry's 40th rep.

Yup, if he ever has to pickup a tackle from the ground and raise him to his chest at the end of a game, he can maybe do it!

Seriously though, why does this scare you? As long as a player has sufficient functional strength, weight room antics such as these are not very significant to me. Kenny Peterson set all kinds of weight room records at Ohio State. Jamal Reynolds was reported to be a very high level weight room performer. What did it get them?

Besides millions of dollars?

[RashanGary]

Cleans seem like a football functional type lift. When you're battling at the point of attack, I think the explosion to throw that weight up is similar to the explosion to get low and explode up through a bigger blocker.

When you play football, you're not pressing weight in a controlled motion, you're contorting your body and putting strain on joints. I'm not saying you should go to the gym and try to tear your ACL, but you should be damn sure your lifts challenge your support muscles so your first all out football play isn't a torn pec, torn quad or shredded ACL.

I'm still impressed by that. I know how hard it is to lift like that and I know how functionally strong he has to be to not get injured doing that. That's the type of lift our new trainer is using more of. The controlled movements that don't challenge the support muscles and do not demand strong joints do not get a football ready for their reality. The reality is that football is going to put more strain on the joints than that lift ever will.

[sheepshead]

I think partial spent the last 30 minutes watching interracial gay porn.