{"id":2682,"date":"2013-08-25T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:19:11","slug":"stepinac-football-the-marines-and-tim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2682","title":{"rendered":"Stepinac football, the Marines, and Tim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This past Thursday, the Stepinac varsity was put through some marine training paces by – marines. The training session was actually covered by cable news, channel 12. It was about a ninety minute part of the all day football practice (it’s now pre-season!), done at the beginning of the day. I watched a good part of it and took some pictures with my LG phone. I’m not used to videoing with the phone, so only a passable video at the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Among other events, there was an endurance course set up, with each boy going down and back
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Here’s Tim being carried by his partner on the course – a “fireman’s carry” – as part of the endurance workout –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So here’s the last 40 seconds or so of another “event” – a two minute set, where the players are pressing a 35lb ammo can over their head. The idea is to do as many reps as possible. Tim (he’s wearing dark sleeveless top, dark shorts and dark socks – you can see him) did 144 reps, which he told me was second on the team (first was 168!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n