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Offseason workouts help LSU, SU athletes
BY LES EAST
Advocate sportswriter
July 02, 2012
NEW ORLEANS — Even as the south Louisiana heat pushes 100 degrees, some high school and college athletes are pushing themselves beyond the norm to prepare themselves for their upcoming seasons.
Dozens of athletes, including several from LSU and Southern, are working with personal trainers in the New Orleans area on top of the work they’re doing on campus.
A trio of Tigers — wide receivers Odell Beckham Jr. and James Wright and tackle Chris Davenport — and Jaguars receiver Charles Hawkins were working inside and outside Friday afternoon with trainer Wyatt Harris at Sonic Boom in Jefferson. A day earlier, Southern defensive end Kadeem Lewis was working with Duke Rousse at The Duke Academy in Kenner.
Beckham, Wright and Davenport work out at LSU from Monday through Friday, finishing the week with an early morning weight-lifting session in Baton Rouge before heading to New Orleans to work with Harris on Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday. Davenport, who’s from Mansfield, has a place to stay on the weekends because Beckham is from New Orleans and Wright is from Belle Chasse.
Beckham obviously got Harris’ attention when Beckham called him a few hours after the Tigers’ 21-0 loss to Alabama in the BCS National Championship game in January.
“He called me at 4:11 a.m. and said, “I’m ready to start working. I can’t sleep,” Harris recalled. “I’ve never had a guy who’s so indomitable. I love it. He’s making me a much better trainer.”
Harris, a Southern alum, said he considers it an insult when he’s pigeon-holed as a strength and conditioning coach. He focuses on improving speed, strength and quickness in a way that’s functional during a football game.
Hawkins, a junior from St. Augustine, has been a student of Harris’ since 2007 and has developed functional speed, but it was his actual speed of 4.28 seconds in the 40-yard dash that caught scout’s attention at Southern’s junior day in the spring.
http://theadvocate.com/sports/lsu/3236601-123/offseason-workouts-help-lsu-su
BY LES EAST
Advocate sportswriter
July 02, 2012
NEW ORLEANS — Even as the south Louisiana heat pushes 100 degrees, some high school and college athletes are pushing themselves beyond the norm to prepare themselves for their upcoming seasons.
Dozens of athletes, including several from LSU and Southern, are working with personal trainers in the New Orleans area on top of the work they’re doing on campus.
A trio of Tigers — wide receivers Odell Beckham Jr. and James Wright and tackle Chris Davenport — and Jaguars receiver Charles Hawkins were working inside and outside Friday afternoon with trainer Wyatt Harris at Sonic Boom in Jefferson. A day earlier, Southern defensive end Kadeem Lewis was working with Duke Rousse at The Duke Academy in Kenner.
Beckham, Wright and Davenport work out at LSU from Monday through Friday, finishing the week with an early morning weight-lifting session in Baton Rouge before heading to New Orleans to work with Harris on Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday. Davenport, who’s from Mansfield, has a place to stay on the weekends because Beckham is from New Orleans and Wright is from Belle Chasse.
Beckham obviously got Harris’ attention when Beckham called him a few hours after the Tigers’ 21-0 loss to Alabama in the BCS National Championship game in January.
“He called me at 4:11 a.m. and said, “I’m ready to start working. I can’t sleep,” Harris recalled. “I’ve never had a guy who’s so indomitable. I love it. He’s making me a much better trainer.”
Harris, a Southern alum, said he considers it an insult when he’s pigeon-holed as a strength and conditioning coach. He focuses on improving speed, strength and quickness in a way that’s functional during a football game.
Hawkins, a junior from St. Augustine, has been a student of Harris’ since 2007 and has developed functional speed, but it was his actual speed of 4.28 seconds in the 40-yard dash that caught scout’s attention at Southern’s junior day in the spring.
http://theadvocate.com/sports/lsu/3236601-123/offseason-workouts-help-lsu-su
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