Jon

So unlike Rowan University, where I attended undergrad and played four years of varsity lacrosse, Durham has a strength coach and a conditioning coach. I like this because it allows the lacrosse coach to focus on lacrosse, and you feel as though your workout is meticulously planned by someone who is aware of how a work out should be arranged. It's not that my coaches didn't know how, but they did have a whole lot of planning to do; sometimes running was just- well running. Our conditioning coach makes the runs game realistic, and each session is built of the last.

This post though is about the strength coach, Jon. Jon is a tiny man, but no, that is not right. He is huge, but he is at the same time very small. Jon is short; he is as short as I. Jon is also one giant muscle. It is very obvious that he played rugby and that he was good. He is our lifting coach two times a week. Lifting- psh- I can sit on a machine and repeatedly pick up heavy objects at my leisure. Lifting with Jon is not lifting as you know it.

Do you know what a circuit is? Almost any athlete knows of it. You do one min straight of an activity (push ups, sit ups, jump rope, wall sits, etc.), and you do each station about three times. Jon makes us do circuits and only circuits, which sucks, but he also makes us do crazy ass stations. He makes us swing a sledge hammer, lift beer kegs over our heads, throw duffle bags full of sand, flit a giant tractor tire, and run shuttles while holding 30lb weights. Below is said tire.

I swear internet that Jon is secretly trying to train us for the Strongest Man in the World Competition. I will not be surprised when he leads us to a truck with a harness and tells us to move it using only our bodies.

Below are two activities that we, the women's lacrosse team, had to partake in during strength training. Note: my examples ARE from the Strongest Man in the World Competition.