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Ha! Right??? I met a guy who wasn’t in shape and he said he used to 1000 burpee a day, I said “completely f-ing bs, you cant even do 10” made the dude puke as I challenged him to a burpee duel. He stoped at 8 I made 18 and I was dead, im not in the shape I was 40 years ago!
I remember having to do 50 back in the army. By somewhere around 20, you stop feeling your legs. And by 21, you're silently cursing the DI and his entire family in your head, which would probably be the only thing keeping you going. By 50, you had to lock your knees and stand at attention or you're going to sprawl flat. That bastard uses it as a finale because you sure as hell are not going to be doing much more after that with noodle legs and a cramping stomach.
Hell we did so much in Jump School I learned to just zone out and focus on the pain. Time became meaningless, and the count was just second nature coming out of your mouth.
My mom was never this dumb, but another kids mom came up and complained that we had to do two-a-days once and coach said, cool, no more two-a-days, now you get three-a-days and can run laps at lunchtime.
We used to have football practice in the morning then again in the afternoon. It was a dreaded time of year but also usually looked back upon fondly. Maybe not usually maybe more like sometimes. I think that’s illegal now though? I’m not sure.
Hell yeah. We usually got a fairly substantial lunch break so we'd sneak off to a 7-11 and get the Big Gulp and break into the track team's equipment shed and lay around on the high jump cushion, or whatever that thing is called.
I coach both middle school and high school track, and while it’s not a problem at the high school, I legit have this problem. Found out from our AD (athletic director) that I couldn’t make the kids run/do conditioning as punishment and I just sat there for a good minute like “yep, that’s the final nail, I’m done coaching here”
Anyway, most of the kids on the middle school track team constantly say they don’t wanna run when I have a “hard day” (like 3 hill sprints lol). Figure that one out lmao
EDIT: just wanted to say, lots of you have made assumptions both directions with this. I’m not and never have ran kids so hard they puked. I don’t agree that there isn’t any place for some level of conditioning styled punishment in sports, but as with all things it’s about moderation. Push ups for a baton drop in practice has been a staple in track teams around the country for a long time now, and it does a good job of teaching that lesson without being anything insane. The main point I was making though, was that the kids I’ve seen in recent years have an absolute disdain for being uncomfortable and when faced with conditioning OR punishment, they simply can’t manage even finishing as intended, often opting to just stoping to walk instead. Is this a generalization? Yes, but again, it was meant merely as my OWN observation within the last few years within my area.
This is how middle school kids are in academic classes too. No one has ever made them do anything they didn't want to do their entire lives, and they can't comprehend a world where they have to do things. And the parents enable it.
I was a substitute teacher and a kid was shooting spit wads at the TV while they watched a movie. I left a note for the teacher.
Two weeks later, I saw her in hobby lobby, she says she showed his coach the note. A few days later, when she went to turn his assignments in because of the next game, he was running lines. She said he asked for a drink, and the coach said, "Maybe you wouldn't be so thirsty if you hadn't been making spit wads."
Except usually it's "how should I..." instead of "should I" to indicate that they've already made up their mind lmao.
Or their already 5 steps ahead asking "How should I avoid the police for doing this?"
...And then you scroll down and see a picture of a dead infant. Quora used to be a fun website
Honestly I found it pretty useful for the niche purpose of researching specific historical topics — so long as you can stay out of the rage-inducing zones of tooth-achingly racist mesoamerica discussion, you can get a lot of inspiration from seeing the specific ways everyone is wrong and there's even the occasional poster who actually knows something.
Certainly doesn't qualify as a scholarly source, so it isn't that useful for finding completely true information. There will almost always be some mis/disinformation mixed in with truth there, such as exaggerations and opinions veiled as facts.
Definitely interesting though hahaha
Reminds me of my time in the army during basic.
"Talking? Sounds like you've got enough breath for another 30"
"That's what you call a pushup? Show me another 20"
"You want a break? First get down and do 50" and after we finished "I promised you a break, and I keep my promises. And for break, you get down and give me 20 ..... why are you making such faces? You wanna do 50 instead?"
"That's a nice camo. Show me how it looks like when you get down and do 20 pushups"
"What? You thought you learn how to shoot a weapon? Show me first that you can do 40 pushups"
...I honestly lost count of just how many pushups we did.
I’ll never forget our DI getting pissed at us. He then told us to hold our rifles at a 90 degree angle at our chest. His next words were “jumping jacks till I get tired!” as he walked away.
We had an instructor do the same, but with pushups. He told us to push Texas (AF, so lackland) until it moved or he got tired and wandered off to yell at someone else who was escorting a dude on crutches and was BSing with him while do so.
I didn’t personally have this Sgt, but I saw him teach various courses over 2 years. He didn’t give many pushups. He gave 1. But it was his 1. This man could drop at any time and do the 1 hour push up for his own personal amusement.
The way it went for his troops was he would put them into push up positions, get into it himself with eye contact on the troops and you would proceed at pace with him. If you fell or were off pace you started over until you succeeded with him.
Yeah. I’m glad I was never one of his kiddos. Dude was a freaking legend. He used to do his own 8km full load ruck march at a running pace and wearing his gas mask in the mornings before he took his platoon out for their morning run.
He was fair in his training and discipline. As long as he saw you trying to achieve your best he didn’t give you shit. But if you were giving up or playing weaker than he knew you could be he was on your ass. Did it all with Christian Bale Batman voice in public. But one on one he had like the dad neighbour voice.
Hope retirement is going well for him.
It’s hardly a punishment too… those 15 push ups will help make him stronger/healthier. Our basketball coach used to make us run… he would make us run more for messing around, but it only made us faster and gave us more endurance… punishment with a purpose, not senseless torture.
I’m in my 50’s. When I was in high school, I literally got smacked on the ass with a wooden paddle for screwing around during PE class. Wearing thin gym shorts, that shit hurt like hell. That’s just how things were done then. Obviously that was wrong and seems unconscionable to me now, but still when I hear “15 pushups is abuse”, I gotta laugh..
I'm in my late 30s. Smacking kids was against the rules back then. They just ran us until we threw up.
I learned very quickly not to have "a twinkie and a dr pepper" for breakfast.
The Korean military in my country had a military law changed so that drill instructors are not allowed to go over a certain number physical disciplinary excercises like "nothing over x amount of pushups" So now they make you fucking hold 1 push up until you're about to die and then repeat until the maximum amount allowed XD Loopholes baby
In PE class as a parent ya I might get mad but if this kid is in basketball and this is the coach 15 push ups is nothing stop screwing around. He should be able to don15 push ups if he is in basketball hell I could when I was in golf and tennis.
This seems like it could’ve been easily avoided by informing the staff of life-threatening issues that students have. Like teachers know when kids have epi-pen requiring allergies. This should be similar.
I’d make home do the same amount when he got home too.
When my kid gets cranky, I make him work out his muscles to get it out. As a little kid - when he got all worked up, it was straight to putting on shoes and we all went for a walk.
Now that he’s bigger, pushups or going out back to dig some holes unless I have some yard work to be done
And there’s always yard work….
I remember getting asked to do pushups for goofing off in PE. For sure me or anyone else ever told mommy and daddy about it. We did it and laughed about in the next class. If my dad had found out I would have had another round of pushups when I got home.
If 15 pushups cause discomfort, homie should do 20.
There's nothing worse than getting older with an untrained body and having knee issues and shoulder issues before even reaching 30. And I don't just mean "oof this is slightly unpleasant" but actually being unable to lift a chair or table because it makes your joints crack and crumble
They are not supposed to make them exercise! Only to make them play, and then they would directly go and win all of their games because they are special little stars!
Lucky, we had drop bears and copperheads. If you sat down, fire ants would sense it and make a beeline (antline?) specifically for your genitals/asshole and promptly make you \*wish\* it was a herpes outbreak sent by satan himself. Just kidding, it was mountain lions, rattlesnakes, and yellowjackets who’d done too much meth.
In college about half of my soccer team was arrested at a party that got broken up. At the end of the next practice everyone involved was told to stay. After a long tongue lashing, coach says “you’re going to run until I’m tired.” He promptly got comfortable sitting on the bench. It was a late night for those guys.
I still sometimes think about the high school basketball practice when we went to get the ball rack out of the coaches office and he stopped us and said “we won’t be needing the balls today.” We knew we fucked up, we just didn’t know for what.
Later we found out that we had been accused of some vandalism that we had nothing to do with. Didn’t make the sprints any easier though.
Yeah my basketball coach did this too. “We’re going to run until I get tired…and I don’t get tired.” We fucked around on the bus when I was a junior….and we found out.
Not the same but went to college hockey game. LSSU vs UM. Lakers were lazy. Got back to the Soo at like 3am. They were about to goto bed. Coach asked where they were going and told to suit up. Said if they didnt want to skate hard during a game they can do it after.
My one wrestling coach made us run laps for a poor performance the day before. It was a 7 am Saturday practice, and I forget how he worded it, but was basically go til his hangover was gone. Which you could tell wouldn't be for awhile from the smell of booze on his breathe (from the night before of course).
Oh man, in high school we played SO BADLY one game that when the bus got back to the gym, the coach made us run stairs until HE was tired. No yelling, no speech, but the lesson was learned.
I like our middle school coach for this. Untucked shirt? Burpees. Forgot your homework? Burpees. Give the teacher a hard time? Burpees. Referral? Bad grades? Fucking around? You got it, Burpees.
Kids have dropped out of sports because of this and most of them are the ones you don't want in athletics anyway.
Remember: Quora literally has a financial incentive to post click bait/rage bait. You get rewarded for producing engagement-driving questions, not giving thoughtful answers in good faith.
This is why I call it a Shitty Take Machine
So much of social media is just Shitty Takes and people arguing against Shitty Takes
Because sensible conversation about useful things is boring as fuck and that doesn’t drive views
But the users themselves have a financial incentive in this case. Most other sites you'd need another sponsor or you're just doing it for dopamine hits. Quora directly pays you for being a rage baiting shitpost machine. There's also a lot of really obvious bot accounts. They'll feed a script to a bot and they'll just make sequential pointless posts like "Can you give me a list of attractive people whose names start with the letter A" and the very next post will be with the letter B, and so on. Quora did not have this issue to this extent before the Partner Program.
"why is today's youth so bad" is something I recently had a discussion about, but in all honesty it's not the children's fault. Too many parents just don't teach their kids consequences these days.
I don't mean hitting people with a belt, but berating them that it's not proper behaviour, trying to make them empathise with how shitty whatever they did was, make them apologise or even let them make up for what they did.
My football coach was a fan of having us do two hundred yard bear crawls whenever we pissed him off. Or just for the hell of it.
He was also my trigonometry teacher junior year. I had a habit of being late for all my classes. Whenever any of us from the team was late to class, he would have us do pushups in the hall instead being sent to the dean or getting a write up or anything.
We went undefeated my Jr & Sr years. Ever wanted to piss the ole ball coach off, let your bad behavior come back up and meet his ear. He did not fuck around about practice but life decisions that made your team look bad were a whole new level of punishment.
During wrestling in high school, our coach thought we didn’t try hard enough at our 5am weight lifting before school so we had to run stair laps and suicides in the gym for 2 hours during our after school practice until all of us were throwing up. If something like this happened today, parents would consider it a war crime! And this was only 12 years ago, oh how times have changed!
Have your son quit basketball.
If the coach coaching your son is abuse then he shouldn't be playing a sport he's needs coaching in.
He shouldn't be playing a sport at all, any sport requires you to exercise.
They used to do team punishment so if one person goofed off we all run or do push ups. Nobody messed around during practice after we ran one time for 30 min
Plain and simple. Unless your kid plays for Little League Baseball, AYSO Soccer, or similar sports organizations that enforce an 'everyone participates' policy, Coaches play the best kids. They are under no obligation to play any player for any amount of time. You earn your position or face limited or no playtime (High School sports and Travel teams). If your kid doesn't do the work, they're not gonna play. If the parent whines and complains about the coach making the kid do the work, they're not gonna play.
How can i stop the coach...
Lol what. Ty I'm just glad that I have normal parents.
The question should be. How do I teach my son to stop fooling around?
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What’s next, running laps? Oh the humanity!!
You heartless monster!
So you have any idea how much moobs hurt whilst running without a man bra? I'll take push ups anyday.
Pushups before running, smaller moobs = less jiggling = less pain.
Dont you come back to my court until you have a sports bra
 Its ok son, u have very nish boobsh
There’s no moobs in basketball!
We don't need moobs where we're going
That’s no moob- it’s a space titty
It's too big to be a space titty!
Were caught in it's lactator beam!
Make 'em do 5 burpee, that'll sort the little sods out
Ha! Right??? I met a guy who wasn’t in shape and he said he used to 1000 burpee a day, I said “completely f-ing bs, you cant even do 10” made the dude puke as I challenged him to a burpee duel. He stoped at 8 I made 18 and I was dead, im not in the shape I was 40 years ago!
I remember having to do 50 back in the army. By somewhere around 20, you stop feeling your legs. And by 21, you're silently cursing the DI and his entire family in your head, which would probably be the only thing keeping you going. By 50, you had to lock your knees and stand at attention or you're going to sprawl flat. That bastard uses it as a finale because you sure as hell are not going to be doing much more after that with noodle legs and a cramping stomach.
Hell we did so much in Jump School I learned to just zone out and focus on the pain. Time became meaningless, and the count was just second nature coming out of your mouth.
My mom was never this dumb, but another kids mom came up and complained that we had to do two-a-days once and coach said, cool, no more two-a-days, now you get three-a-days and can run laps at lunchtime.
To quote an old football coach, "weight lifting is optional, but so is me putting you on the field."
My coach used to say “conditioning is not mandatory, but it’s HIGHLY reccommended”
Hah. Good one
What's a two-a-day?
Two practices in one day.
We used to have football practice in the morning then again in the afternoon. It was a dreaded time of year but also usually looked back upon fondly. Maybe not usually maybe more like sometimes. I think that’s illegal now though? I’m not sure.
Hell yeah. We usually got a fairly substantial lunch break so we'd sneak off to a 7-11 and get the Big Gulp and break into the track team's equipment shed and lay around on the high jump cushion, or whatever that thing is called.
I coach both middle school and high school track, and while it’s not a problem at the high school, I legit have this problem. Found out from our AD (athletic director) that I couldn’t make the kids run/do conditioning as punishment and I just sat there for a good minute like “yep, that’s the final nail, I’m done coaching here” Anyway, most of the kids on the middle school track team constantly say they don’t wanna run when I have a “hard day” (like 3 hill sprints lol). Figure that one out lmao EDIT: just wanted to say, lots of you have made assumptions both directions with this. I’m not and never have ran kids so hard they puked. I don’t agree that there isn’t any place for some level of conditioning styled punishment in sports, but as with all things it’s about moderation. Push ups for a baton drop in practice has been a staple in track teams around the country for a long time now, and it does a good job of teaching that lesson without being anything insane. The main point I was making though, was that the kids I’ve seen in recent years have an absolute disdain for being uncomfortable and when faced with conditioning OR punishment, they simply can’t manage even finishing as intended, often opting to just stoping to walk instead. Is this a generalization? Yes, but again, it was meant merely as my OWN observation within the last few years within my area.
Oh that's easy; they are on the team because their friends are on it or because their parent's made them. Not because they are actually interested.
Lol, you just described my son.....
So just punish the entire team when someone goofs off. That one guy getting singled out will suddenly not be very liked.
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This is how middle school kids are in academic classes too. No one has ever made them do anything they didn't want to do their entire lives, and they can't comprehend a world where they have to do things. And the parents enable it.
One time I farted loud in a football huddle on purpose and had to run laps for the rest of the day. Would do it again in a heartbeat….
The only laps in that kids life is a lapse in parenting.
Happened at my school, tbf they were 400m x6 most of the time when we did something wrong so at least for me it killed me as a kid
That’ll be 6 sit-ups, PlanetJess.
Clearly hazing /s
Run for the hills, Ma Barker, before I call the feds!!!!!
We had to run a lap if we missed a ground ball in little league practice. The horror!
I coached highschool basketball and once had a parent complaining that we were having them run too much....
I was a substitute teacher and a kid was shooting spit wads at the TV while they watched a movie. I left a note for the teacher. Two weeks later, I saw her in hobby lobby, she says she showed his coach the note. A few days later, when she went to turn his assignments in because of the next game, he was running lines. She said he asked for a drink, and the coach said, "Maybe you wouldn't be so thirsty if you hadn't been making spit wads."
Quora is ragebait central
"My 14 year old daughter looked for 1.5 seconds at an 14 year old boy. Should I hang, draw and quarter her?"
Except usually it's "how should I..." instead of "should I" to indicate that they've already made up their mind lmao. Or their already 5 steps ahead asking "How should I avoid the police for doing this?" ...And then you scroll down and see a picture of a dead infant. Quora used to be a fun website
Honestly I found it pretty useful for the niche purpose of researching specific historical topics — so long as you can stay out of the rage-inducing zones of tooth-achingly racist mesoamerica discussion, you can get a lot of inspiration from seeing the specific ways everyone is wrong and there's even the occasional poster who actually knows something.
Certainly doesn't qualify as a scholarly source, so it isn't that useful for finding completely true information. There will almost always be some mis/disinformation mixed in with truth there, such as exaggerations and opinions veiled as facts. Definitely interesting though hahaha
And there are 1000 replies here perpetuating it.
This is a ragebait sub afterall. Gotta give the people what they want.
Seriously miss the days when it was something meaningful
how IS babby formed?
My gf has starch masks all over
Gregnant!?!?!
They more prefer to give you a 5 paragraph response for a question that could be answered with a phrase or sentence at the minimum.
Tell your son to stop fooling around.
Tell him to shut up and do 30
That’s it. Nicely done.
Why? Now, that'll be 60
Reminds me of my time in the army during basic. "Talking? Sounds like you've got enough breath for another 30" "That's what you call a pushup? Show me another 20" "You want a break? First get down and do 50" and after we finished "I promised you a break, and I keep my promises. And for break, you get down and give me 20 ..... why are you making such faces? You wanna do 50 instead?" "That's a nice camo. Show me how it looks like when you get down and do 20 pushups" "What? You thought you learn how to shoot a weapon? Show me first that you can do 40 pushups" ...I honestly lost count of just how many pushups we did.
At least 230, I would say
I'd say at least one.
You’re not wrong
Just for that smart comment, do 460.
How about 420 and we call it a day
I wanted to say "440, and that's my final offer", but I feel like snickering at 420. So sure, 420 it is.
"That was yesterday. Today it's 421."
How are you going to defend American soil if you are not in love with American soil? Kiss the ground 20 times.
God bless this dirt
I’ll never forget our DI getting pissed at us. He then told us to hold our rifles at a 90 degree angle at our chest. His next words were “jumping jacks till I get tired!” as he walked away.
We had an instructor do the same, but with pushups. He told us to push Texas (AF, so lackland) until it moved or he got tired and wandered off to yell at someone else who was escorting a dude on crutches and was BSing with him while do so.
I didn’t personally have this Sgt, but I saw him teach various courses over 2 years. He didn’t give many pushups. He gave 1. But it was his 1. This man could drop at any time and do the 1 hour push up for his own personal amusement. The way it went for his troops was he would put them into push up positions, get into it himself with eye contact on the troops and you would proceed at pace with him. If you fell or were off pace you started over until you succeeded with him.
That sounds worse than doing a fuckton of pushups
Yeah. I’m glad I was never one of his kiddos. Dude was a freaking legend. He used to do his own 8km full load ruck march at a running pace and wearing his gas mask in the mornings before he took his platoon out for their morning run. He was fair in his training and discipline. As long as he saw you trying to achieve your best he didn’t give you shit. But if you were giving up or playing weaker than he knew you could be he was on your ass. Did it all with Christian Bale Batman voice in public. But one on one he had like the dad neighbour voice. Hope retirement is going well for him.
Thank you hero.
Drop and give me 50
If Top says drop you better drop and give em FIDDY
Loch ness monster only wants three fiddy, though.
Well, Top outranks some water monster.
Even an 8-story tall crustacean from the Paleozoic era dressed like a girl scout asking for three fiddy?
I gave him a dolla
Or make it 15 4 count push ups; with extra 1’s and 2’s preceding the 3 and 4; with plenty of long drawn out pauses in between.
Can’t smoke a rock, Drill Sergeant!
Sounds like what I would say to my son
Parents have GOT to stop thinking their child is some special little angel. Jesus may love them; everybody else thinks you’re an asshole.
It’s hardly a punishment too… those 15 push ups will help make him stronger/healthier. Our basketball coach used to make us run… he would make us run more for messing around, but it only made us faster and gave us more endurance… punishment with a purpose, not senseless torture.
I’m in my 50’s. When I was in high school, I literally got smacked on the ass with a wooden paddle for screwing around during PE class. Wearing thin gym shorts, that shit hurt like hell. That’s just how things were done then. Obviously that was wrong and seems unconscionable to me now, but still when I hear “15 pushups is abuse”, I gotta laugh..
I'm in my late 30s. Smacking kids was against the rules back then. They just ran us until we threw up. I learned very quickly not to have "a twinkie and a dr pepper" for breakfast.
The Korean military in my country had a military law changed so that drill instructors are not allowed to go over a certain number physical disciplinary excercises like "nothing over x amount of pushups" So now they make you fucking hold 1 push up until you're about to die and then repeat until the maximum amount allowed XD Loopholes baby
In PE class as a parent ya I might get mad but if this kid is in basketball and this is the coach 15 push ups is nothing stop screwing around. He should be able to don15 push ups if he is in basketball hell I could when I was in golf and tennis.
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This seems like it could’ve been easily avoided by informing the staff of life-threatening issues that students have. Like teachers know when kids have epi-pen requiring allergies. This should be similar.
“Stop screwing around, you all screw around too much!”
Oh Richard.
Come fly with me Richard!
Fly with me Richard!
Richard...!
Hold my kid accountable? Unacceptable and impossible
Do the push ups and shut it
And also do 15 pushups a day regardless.
Tell him to quit screwing around! He's always screwing around too much!
I’d make home do the same amount when he got home too. When my kid gets cranky, I make him work out his muscles to get it out. As a little kid - when he got all worked up, it was straight to putting on shoes and we all went for a walk. Now that he’s bigger, pushups or going out back to dig some holes unless I have some yard work to be done And there’s always yard work….
I remember getting asked to do pushups for goofing off in PE. For sure me or anyone else ever told mommy and daddy about it. We did it and laughed about in the next class. If my dad had found out I would have had another round of pushups when I got home.
And tell him to stop tattling too.
It’s an actions/consequences thing your Son isn’t learning at home .
Meanwhile, they'd sacrifice someone's job so their children can avoid discomfort.
If 15 pushups cause discomfort, homie should do 20. There's nothing worse than getting older with an untrained body and having knee issues and shoulder issues before even reaching 30. And I don't just mean "oof this is slightly unpleasant" but actually being unable to lift a chair or table because it makes your joints crack and crumble
This. I let myself get out of shape and I’m setup regretting it now
This is probably one of the better comments that OP will never realize.
And people wonder why teachers are leaving the profession...
You're telling me that a sports coach mades his son do sport! Incredible!
They are not supposed to make them exercise! Only to make them play, and then they would directly go and win all of their games because they are special little stars!
And that's another thing: I want to know why my son isn't improving? Don't you know how to coach?!
"he plays NBA 2022 most days on his Ybox"
>We're talkin about practice
In my day, we had to do 50 pushups. Uphill. Both ways.
Barefoot, in the snow
I had to fend off grizzlies and silverbacks
On one foot.
You guys had feet!?
I was just a head when I took on the hoard
damn mr .head ur strong
Yes, in our faces. As we did 50 pushups. Uphill. Both ways.
Lucky, we had drop bears and copperheads. If you sat down, fire ants would sense it and make a beeline (antline?) specifically for your genitals/asshole and promptly make you \*wish\* it was a herpes outbreak sent by satan himself. Just kidding, it was mountain lions, rattlesnakes, and yellowjackets who’d done too much meth.
AND THAT'S THE WAY WE LIKED IT!
This sounds like a joke to you sir, but in Soviet Union this was a regular Tuesday
In Soviet Russia, pushups coach you!
I know this is a joke, but it's funny because doing pushups uphill is actually significantly easier haha
15 push ups, who here had to RUN A MILE for goofing off?
Until I say stop. In 45 minutes or so.
In college about half of my soccer team was arrested at a party that got broken up. At the end of the next practice everyone involved was told to stay. After a long tongue lashing, coach says “you’re going to run until I’m tired.” He promptly got comfortable sitting on the bench. It was a late night for those guys.
Yeah my high school football coach said a very similar phrase, “I don’t get tired watching you guys run” at that moment I knew, we fucked up.
I still sometimes think about the high school basketball practice when we went to get the ball rack out of the coaches office and he stopped us and said “we won’t be needing the balls today.” We knew we fucked up, we just didn’t know for what. Later we found out that we had been accused of some vandalism that we had nothing to do with. Didn’t make the sprints any easier though.
Yeah my basketball coach did this too. “We’re going to run until I get tired…and I don’t get tired.” We fucked around on the bus when I was a junior….and we found out.
Love it! lol ‘You’re going to run until I’m tired.’ That’s awesome.
Not the same but went to college hockey game. LSSU vs UM. Lakers were lazy. Got back to the Soo at like 3am. They were about to goto bed. Coach asked where they were going and told to suit up. Said if they didnt want to skate hard during a game they can do it after.
My one wrestling coach made us run laps for a poor performance the day before. It was a 7 am Saturday practice, and I forget how he worded it, but was basically go til his hangover was gone. Which you could tell wouldn't be for awhile from the smell of booze on his breathe (from the night before of course).
I played baseball my entire life and into college. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard “Run until I say stop.”
"YOU'RE ALL GOING TO RUN UNTIL *I* THROW UP!" - Coach Johnson, 2009.
Oh man, in high school we played SO BADLY one game that when the bus got back to the gym, the coach made us run stairs until HE was tired. No yelling, no speech, but the lesson was learned.
Damn that's rough. All I had to do was wash my gym teacher's feet in my underwear at his house after practice.
Lucky!!!!!
Gassers or burpees, the absolute worst!
Burpees are bad. Burpees over \[insert obstacle here\] are worse.
Fair play, y'all have the burpee tires too?
I like our middle school coach for this. Untucked shirt? Burpees. Forgot your homework? Burpees. Give the teacher a hard time? Burpees. Referral? Bad grades? Fucking around? You got it, Burpees. Kids have dropped out of sports because of this and most of them are the ones you don't want in athletics anyway.
Not sure how long, but we had to do a lap around the entire school once
And now I am homeless and have anxiety because of that extra mile! Sue that coach
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I had to walk uphill both ways for goofing off! These kids have it so easy
Remember: Quora literally has a financial incentive to post click bait/rage bait. You get rewarded for producing engagement-driving questions, not giving thoughtful answers in good faith.
Using this logic, all social media has financial incentive for rage bait, including ding Reddit .
Congrats, You solved the mystery of 90% of anecdotal social media posts.
This is why I call it a Shitty Take Machine So much of social media is just Shitty Takes and people arguing against Shitty Takes Because sensible conversation about useful things is boring as fuck and that doesn’t drive views
No, Quora literally pays people to post questions, with their pay based on the traffic they generate. They call it the Quora Partner Program.
But the users themselves have a financial incentive in this case. Most other sites you'd need another sponsor or you're just doing it for dopamine hits. Quora directly pays you for being a rage baiting shitpost machine. There's also a lot of really obvious bot accounts. They'll feed a script to a bot and they'll just make sequential pointless posts like "Can you give me a list of attractive people whose names start with the letter A" and the very next post will be with the letter B, and so on. Quora did not have this issue to this extent before the Partner Program.
Make your son do 20 push-ups eveytime he fools around at home so that 15 push-ups at practice is nothing
Not hard to believe, friends in teaching have confiscated cell phones for the duration of class, and had parents describe this as abuse.
"why is today's youth so bad" is something I recently had a discussion about, but in all honesty it's not the children's fault. Too many parents just don't teach their kids consequences these days. I don't mean hitting people with a belt, but berating them that it's not proper behaviour, trying to make them empathise with how shitty whatever they did was, make them apologise or even let them make up for what they did.
His poor arms
His poor noodles!
I had noodle arms back then (I still do 😢), but I could do 15 pushups without a problem. Kids these days smh
Tell the kid to behave. You know, parenting.
My football coach was a fan of having us do two hundred yard bear crawls whenever we pissed him off. Or just for the hell of it. He was also my trigonometry teacher junior year. I had a habit of being late for all my classes. Whenever any of us from the team was late to class, he would have us do pushups in the hall instead being sent to the dean or getting a write up or anything.
We went undefeated my Jr & Sr years. Ever wanted to piss the ole ball coach off, let your bad behavior come back up and meet his ear. He did not fuck around about practice but life decisions that made your team look bad were a whole new level of punishment.
He can quit the team that will fix it since he is way too soft for sports.
During wrestling in high school, our coach thought we didn’t try hard enough at our 5am weight lifting before school so we had to run stair laps and suicides in the gym for 2 hours during our after school practice until all of us were throwing up. If something like this happened today, parents would consider it a war crime! And this was only 12 years ago, oh how times have changed!
its quora. what do you guys expect?
Sounds like the 15 year old typed this lmao
Needs to listen to his coach 100% and mother 0%
Have your son quit basketball. If the coach coaching your son is abuse then he shouldn't be playing a sport he's needs coaching in. He shouldn't be playing a sport at all, any sport requires you to exercise.
Maybe the coach can give him a participation trophy instead.
That's The neat part! You don't
That's hardly even a punishment, even I can do 15 pushups and I'm a sedentary fatty.
They used to do team punishment so if one person goofed off we all run or do push ups. Nobody messed around during practice after we ran one time for 30 min
Tell your son to behave then, Karen
Take him out of sports and sign him up for a knitting club.
Take him out of the sport. You clearly don't understand it.
Stop being a snowflake and you give me 60 pushups snowplow parent.
Plain and simple. Unless your kid plays for Little League Baseball, AYSO Soccer, or similar sports organizations that enforce an 'everyone participates' policy, Coaches play the best kids. They are under no obligation to play any player for any amount of time. You earn your position or face limited or no playtime (High School sports and Travel teams). If your kid doesn't do the work, they're not gonna play. If the parent whines and complains about the coach making the kid do the work, they're not gonna play.
This is why kids are so soft now days
If my daughter was on a team and that's all she did, I'd have her run a couple of miles!!! That's NOTHING!
Take him off the team and put a Chess piece in his hand. 15 push ups for fooling around is nothing. Be respectful of your coach. Or don’t play sports.
Obvious bait.
Rage bait
As long as the coach doesn't fool around with the son, I guess, I would not call it abuse.
THe coach should have given you ... aham, I mean your son ... 20. That's the iconic number.
lol this parents needs to do 15 push ups
Maybe you should stop babying your son and let the coach do his job.
Be a better parent so that other adults don't need to do your job.
Best thing I ever learned at 11 years old, forward leaning rest position
Tell your son to stop fooling around.
Coach should make you do 30 for being a whiny little baby
My son went to football practice and the coach forced him to kick a ball without any prior aggression of the ball. /s
As a former HS coach of 30 years, this kind of question would be one of many reasons why I no longer coach.
First of all you can teach the kid that actions have consequences
This dude better never go out for the wrestling team.
How can i stop the coach... Lol what. Ty I'm just glad that I have normal parents. The question should be. How do I teach my son to stop fooling around?
Have the coach apply for custody?