Three Oregon football players were hospitalized after their coaches put them through strenuous workouts. These workouts were considered to be military basic training, but to inexperienced football players that can have a toll on their bodies. One of the players developed a rare disease known as rhabdomyolysis, which is formed from intense workouts and causes muscle tissue to enter the blood stream. With that entering the blood stream it can cause great damage to the kidney's and can cause kidney failure. Since these players were hospitalized the Oregon strength and conditioning coach has been suspended for a month without pay. It is said that one of the workouts consisted of doing push-ups and up-downs for an hour constantly. It was also said that the players haven't even been using weights yet for their workouts.
Questions:
Do you think it was appropriate for the coaches to use that advanced of workouts on their players?
How would you handle the situation if you were the Athletic Director of the program?
My Thoughts-
In my opinion and as a player myself I think it's best to ease into intense workouts and not just start with them. These workouts probably weren't the greatest idea considering you have inexperienced and unseasoned players. I don't think pushing those players that hard was a good idea because it looks bad to recruits and parents of the players.
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No, at least not that soon for them they could have used it if they were able to do it barely but without getting injured from it. I would have fired him since this was quite the dumb move to make for strength workout. This workout is meant for the military while they could be able to do it they would do a lot more harm to the other players of the game since this is for the military.
Yeah that is a good point and the coach should have realized that these are football players and not military men and their bodies might not be able to handle that kind of strain.
I think that this was far from right. If anything they should be started out with a small workout that is basic and doesn't put lots of the strain on the body but by going the opposite way and starting out with an advanced workout he not only caused the disease but opened them up to many future injures. If I was the athletic director I would have to have the strength and conditioning coach fired. He should know that this would only harm them and make it so they were unable to play, I would not want someone like that on my staff.
That is very good reasoning because this coach might've just triggered a future amount of injuries which might plague them this season and for seasons to come and possibly lose potential recruits and staff members.
I think that the coaches should have got all the players prepared maybe for the workout by doing other workouts. They shouldn't have just started the workout without being prepared or anything. I think that the coaches should have been suspended for a week, but a month is too much I think.
I agree that they should've taken it easy on the players because all of that stuff at once can really hurt a player.
I think the coach should have started the work outs easy for the player and get them ready for the hard workouts. If I were the Athletic Director I would understand and probably get a new routine to start experienced and inexperienced with to get them ready for the hard workouts and I defiantly wouldn't push them that hard there is a point where a person can't take much more.
Yeah that's a good point because with the demand for perfection at the collegiate level these players feel obligated to take these workouts and try to do them so they can look good.
I don't think it would be appropriate to go straight into an intense workout. I would probably fire the strength and conditioning coach as well.
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