Iowa Rhabdo

People in the S&C field have all heard about the Iowa Rhabdo case where 13 Iowa Hawkeye football players were sent to the hospital for cases of Rhabdo sustained from an absolute crusher of a workout performed earlier that week. A committee was then formed that led to a two month investigation about the incident and they have just come out with their report today. They found no one at fault, thank goodness.

But now we have the geniuses at Fox 28 Cedar Rapids and the NSCA performing their own little experiment to see if workouts like these have a place in college football. They came up with a definitive no. Their reasoning? A “male” Fox 28 news reporter couldn’t get through a similarly structured, but hilariously scaled, workout. Are you ****ing with me? Let’s not bring up that it was the first day of winter workouts, fresh off of winter break where the players should have been following a strict workout routine. Or that since it’s right off winter break, most of these kids probably did a little partying after their Insight Bowl win a few weeks prior. No, let’s just come to the conclusion that since Nancy the news reporter was about to keel over, then other much stronger, much fitter and much more mentally strong athletes shouldn’t do it. The NSCA came up with that decision. You know, the organization you have to go through to become a CSCS. They are the reason why I think most certifications are T-rex poo. Just listening to the NSCA President speak makes me want to punch him in the face.

Watch this video and tell me how you can compare a miniscule news reporter getting destroyed in a workout scaled for 7 year old girls to a big time D1 college football player. I think it just showed that guy is an embarrassment to man.

Now, I never played any type of organized football, but I know what reality check workouts are. They are rare events used to weed out the weak and show who is really dedicated. I played baseball and we never had anything this terrible, but we did have awful workouts that will showcase those who stuck to the workout routine over break and those who partied their faces off instead. Ferentz  has announced that they will no longer hold this workout as they had been doing it for 3 years now, but don’t think they won’t replace it with something equally as awesome.

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  Danger Town May 24, 2011 at 3:22 pm

  That guy displayed some innovative sprint mechanics. No more hammer and punch, from now on I’m cueing “pedicure hands! Dry the nails! Dry the nails!”

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  Sven H May 29, 2011 at 7:37 am

  http://talktomejohnnie.com/football/iowa-football-rhabdo

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