Sports practice drills

[TOMCATS1990]

Basketball or any sport that you hated back in the day. I played basketball from the 4-5 grade elementary team up until my junior year of high school. The first drill I hated was suicides. You lineup on the baseline and run full speed to the nearest foul line lean over touch the ground and back to the baseline touch the ground and then to half-court touch and back to the baseline then the far foul line touch and back then to the opposite baseline touch and back. The other I hated was a drill where we made 2 lines on the baseline and a Coach in between with a whistle and a ball. He would roll the ball, blow the whistle and you had to sprint and dive, fight with another teammate to grab and control the ball. I ended many of those drills with floor burns to multiple areas elbows knees etc and even dislocated a finger once. Back in the early 80’s though 90 these drills were common place. Let’s here some others.

 

[EliteBlue]

Taking a charge drills. My elbows still have chips floating around in them from repeatedly hitting the hardwood and breaking the fall w your elbows.

Also, despise bear crawls. They use to make us bear crawl the 5 yard lines. Start on the goal line and crawl the width of the field, and then up the sideline to the 5yr marker, and then the width of the field along the 5 to the other side of the field, and then up the sideline to the 10yd line, and the the width of the field etc etc

 

[bucsrule8872]

Wall sits. Man I hated those.

 

[Mulder14]

I have 2 in basketball if you missed a layup our coach would hit you on the back of the legs with the strap on his whistle. In baseball the coach would ask you if your arm was sore and if you said yes he would spit his tobacco juice on it

 

[R.O.T.Muckinfush]

Suicides in basketball, gassers in football. Up downs were the worst in 2 a days fb practice in july/august

 

[SmyrnaCatFan]

9x330 in 45 seconds with 110 jog. (pre-metric track)

 

[NociHTTP]

I have 2 in basketball if you missed a layup our coach would hit you on the back of the legs with the strap on his whistle. In baseball the coach would ask you if your arm was sore and if you said yes he would spit his tobacco juice on it

I'd put my elbow in his mouth, and ask him how his spit tastes.

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

Suicides ending with a baseline belly slide (diving for the ball).

 

[CastleRubric]

Bull in the Ring

 

[TucsonCat]

8s

The one where you throw it off the backboard and slide to different side of the rim and repeat. Supermans?

 

[TOMCATS1990]

8s

The one where you throw it off the backboard and slide to different side of the rim and repeat. Supermans?

Forgot that one yeah hated it too

 

[the nail at the foul line]

Suicides

I said that to a younger generation player and they call them something more politically correct. He had no clue what a suicide was. Gave me the modern name.


Some alternatives to calling sprinting drills 'suicides' are: 'Line Drills' 'Wind Sprints' 'Out and backs'

I think he said line drills.

 

[UKBB4Ever]

Basketball or any sport that you hated back in the day. I played basketball from the 4-5 grade elementary team up until my junior year of high school. The first drill I hated was suicides. You lineup on the baseline and run full speed to the nearest foul line lean over touch the ground and back to the baseline touch the ground and then to half-court touch and back to the baseline then the far foul line touch and back then to the opposite baseline touch and back. The other I hated was a drill where we made 2 lines on the baseline and a Coach in between with a whistle and a ball. He would roll the ball, blow the whistle and you had to sprint and dive, fight with another teammate to grab and control the ball. I ended many of those drills with floor burns to multiple areas elbows knees etc and even dislocated a finger once. Back in the early 80’s though 90 these drills were common place. Let’s here some others.

Suicides are a mutha!! Rebounding on the rebound machine with a medicine ball, that's another one!!

 

[yoshukai]

My sophomore year for some reason our coach put a metal folding chair in front of the rim and made us shoot layups while jumping over the chair . If you missed , you ran suicides . That’s the first time I ever touched the rim . I had never been able to do it before but on my first layup over the chair , the back of my fingers hit the rim ! I was like …DAMN !

Edit: Forgot to mention, some of less athletic guys hated it more than me . Some of them almost got killed.

 

[yoshukai]

I have 2 in basketball if you missed a layup our coach would hit you on the back of the legs with the strap on his whistle. In baseball the coach would ask you if your arm was sore and if you said yes he would spit his tobacco juice on it

Damn boy , did you play basketball for Bobby Knight?

 

[yoshukai]

Bull in the Ring

Been there , done that ! lol

EDIT: And I was a wide receiver, so you know how that went.

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

Full court Indian run- pass the ball repeatedly off the backboard and don’t let the ball hit the floorYou have to sprint to catch the pass off the backboard from the guy in front of you. Full court loop for 10 minutes at a time.

 

[MegaBlue05]

High school football, we ran what the coaches called "lines" every Monday in full equipment. One set after a win. Two sets after a loss.

One set: You started at the goal line, ran to the 5, ran all the way across the field, ran to the 10, ran all the way across the field, ran to the 15, and so on until you'd reached the other goal line five yards at a time. If we were dogging it, they'd stop and make us do the across the field parts by shuffling laterally.

I hated lines. Mondays after a loss sucked and we were mid. lol

 

[TucsonCat]

High school football, we ran what the coaches called "lines" every Monday in full equipment. One set after a win. Two sets after a loss.

One set: You started at the goal line, ran to the 5, ran all the way across the field, ran to the 10, ran all the way across the field, ran to the 15, and so on until you'd reached the other goal line five yards at a time. If we were dogging it, they'd stop and make us do the across the field parts by shuffling laterally.

I hated lines. Mondays after a loss sucked and we were mid. lol

I'm sorry. Could you explain this again? So would you run 95 yards, then 95 back. 90 down, 90 back, 85 down and back, etc ..

 

[MegaBlue05]

I'm sorry. Could you explain this again? So would you run 95 yards, then 95 back. 90 down, 90 back, 85 down and back, etc ...

Basically a big zig zag where you start at one goal line on the sideline, run 5 yards vertically, then run 53 yards sideline to sideline horizontally, then five yards vertically, then 53 yards horizontally.

Repeat in 5 yard increments until you reach the other goal line.

 

[CastleRubric]

Basically a big zig zag where you start at one goal line on the sideline, run 5 yards vertically, then run 53 yards sideline to sideline horizontally, then five yards vertically, then 53 yards horizontally.

Repeat in 5 yard increments until you reach the other goal line.

I'd like to ask what team that was but i don't want to invade your privacy

Plus you'd probably sprint in a zig zagging fashion all the way to my house and kill me if you wanted to

Was this a Lexington school or - somewhere else?

Like Croatia perhaps?

J/K

 

[AshWilliams]

Not from sports, but from the Army, I hated pushup pyramids. But they were so effective I eventually incorporated them into my own physical fitness regimen when I got out.

First do 5 pushups. Then 10. Then 15. Then 20. Then 25.
Then 20, 15, 10, and the last 5 pushups were murder.

 

[MegaBlue05]

I'd like to ask what team that was but i don't want to invade your privacy

Plus you'd probably sprint in a zig zagging fashion all the way to my house and kill me if you wanted to

Was this a Lexington school or - somewhere else?

Like Croatia perhaps?

J/K

Lol. Not quite Croatia.

Let’s just say a rural high school in the central Kentucky area circa 1995-97. It was a different time then. The staff used to withhold water from us regularly to make us “tougher.” That’s a big no-no today.

I should also note I was absolutely terrible at football and voluntarily retired before my junior year.

 

[yoshukai]

Not from sports, but from the Army, I hated pushup pyramids. But they were so effective I eventually incorporated them into my own physical fitness regimen when I got out.

First do 5 pushups. Then 10. Then 15. Then 20. Then 25.
Then 20, 15, 10, and the last 5 pushups were murder.

Interesting. Might be something I can incorporate into my exercise program. Will it be as effective for say…..First do 1 pushup, then 2 , then 1 again?

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

Not from sports, but from the Army, I hated pushup pyramids. But they were so effective I eventually incorporated them into my own physical fitness regimen when I got out.

First do 5 pushups. Then 10. Then 15. Then 20. Then 25.
Then 20, 15, 10, and the last 5 pushups were murder.

Yes we do this in morning workout. Sometimes burpees with pushups. Arms are JELLY after