Freshman college wrestling preseason:
11.5 mile run. I was one of the top 5 to finish. It was boring, but seemed to get effortless/easy after mile 6 or 7.
The next week we did a 3 mile run, while carrying a 45lbs Olympic plate anyway you could. That FUCKING SUCKED!
What does any of this "training" have to do with wrestling, you ask? Fucking nothing. I quit, and the team performed very poorly that year. Buncha faggots.
I think your coach just wanted you to get hernias. Reminds me of high school football. Was the only team you didn't have to try out for, well that and track. so you get all these guys who are just absolutely terrible at football, myself included, standing out there pretty much fodder for the juniors and seniors to destroy when they run their plays. The coach never spent any time with any of the younger guys who were average, didn't show us any plays or give us any mentoring or proper weight training. it was just fuck the younger guys, he only needed them to take a landmine during practice.
Yeah it really just boiled down to them being bad coaches. Now that I'm a bit older and have coached (jiujistu, wrestling, weight lifting) I can see that they were morons who thought "doing something hard" equated to good practice.
No, you stupid niggers. If you want us to get stronger, have us do weight training. If you want us to be better wresters, have us drill techniques. Doing something arbitrarily difficult because "reasons" doesn't do fuck all, and as you stated, is likely to get people hurt.
The head coach was demoted to a high school coach some years later, so that was some solid vindication that quitting his shitty team and the culture being built around it was a good decision. Too bad for them too, I was definitely one of the top 2 freshman they brought in that year. Wrestled in a few of the open tournaments and did really well, losing only to juniors and seniors but holding my own against them.
And as young men we looked up to our coaches only to be let down. I'm glad you figured it out and coach differently.
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