Could you pass the Haynesworth test?

50 yards up and back 3 times -total 300 yds - must beat 75 seconds.

Rest minute and a half - repeat.

Read that West Point cadets do it in the 50's

 

Conditioning for marathons has nothing in common with conditioning for professional football any more than conditioning for hockey has anything to do with conditioning for football.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the first had to be done in 70, and the second in 73.

 

Could be . I was going by memory

 

It's 25 yards up, 25 yards back -- 6 times. The first run in 70 seconds, 3 1/2-minute break, second run in 73 seconds.

And Boom -- I think it was Boom -- that picture of Haynesworth only shows that he's lost weight, not that he's particularly "fit." Big difference.

 

What gets you there is different in every athletic endeavor, but the end result is the same.

 

Not really.

I'm guessing the end result you're talking about is being in shape. But there's a big difference between football shape and marathon shape. And hockey shape. And baseball shape. And so on.

 

My son the football player goes to a gym called the Sports Specific Training In Lots of CFL and NHL players. The workout regimens of the two sports couldn't be more different