man i wish i could do some workouts like that from time to time, looks fun. instead of the same old same old.
Let's see, rumored roid user who inflates and deflates throughout high school and college, sports manboobs on occasion, gets caught not just with a banned substance but with altered hormone levels due to steroid masking/remediating drugs, but first goes Kindergarten Cop "It's not a tumor" and then, when that fails, blames so-called "overtrained athlete syndrome" - what story is this other than that of one of hundreds or thousands of other PED-pumped workout warriors in the NFL?
If this is a new video, can you provide a direct link? For some reason all of a sudden all embedded youtube videos are just white rectangles for me.
Yeah, but the idea that he would continue to cheat after being on appeal for already getting busted is laughable. Not even Manny is doing it now. He was tested a substantial amount of times, I'm guessing even more than the average player, but he was still using? REALLY?
Sitting idle? Cushing is anything but Questions we have about whether Brian Cushing will return as the star linebacker he was before being suspended by the NFL for testing positive for a banned substance are fair, but they tend to ignore his history. Say what you want about the Texans' second-year linebacker, but there has never been any question about his desire to be the best. During his four-week involuntary vacation, Cushing has done what he has always done when faced with adversity: work harder. It is arguable Cushing had as much impact as any defensive player in the league a year ago. If he doesn't get back to that, it shouldn't be for lack of effort. Cushing will not be eligible to play until next week when the Giants, the team he rooted for as a youngster in New Jersey, visit the Texans. But grueling, perhaps even groundbreaking workout routines, a strict diet and a singular focus should allow Cushing to rejoin the Texans on Monday primed to quickly get back to the Pro Bowl level of his rookie season. Cushing didn't want to talk on the record for this column, but his attitude and approach to his suspension say as much as his words could. "It ought to be like letting a freaking caged animal out," said Cushing's personal trainer Joe DeFranco. "He's got people that love him and a lot of people that want to see him fail and not be in shape. They're asking if he will be smaller, weaker and slower and not going to be the same player. "He took that personally and is going to quiet all the haters. You'll see a bigger, faster stronger, more violent Brian Cushing. He is going to be like a rabid animal." Don't get squeamish. Rabid animalism is quite the desired trait in the NFL — the Hall of Fame is full of it — and Cushing brings more of that to the field than any Texan defender. Sets ambitious goal Cushing has even talked about coming back with such a vengeance that he can see himself leading the league in tackles, an almost impossible feat in just 12 games. That passion is real. That flat-out, nasty attitude is legit and something the Texans need. Plus, Cushing's range and all-around skills allow the Texans to run a variety of defenses that aren't as effective when he isn't on the field. Frank Cushing says you wouldn't want to have been anywhere near his son as the Cowboys were beating the Texans on Sunday. "He does not watch TV in a social setting but in a business setting," Frank Cushing said. "This is his passion, his livelihood. He dreams and lives for football." High school, college and pro teammates have always marveled at Cushing's desire and dedication. If possible, he has ratcheted the intensity up a notch. Suspended for a positive test for the hormone hCG (human Chorionic Gonadotropin) and now facing an eight-game suspension should he fail a second test, Cushing has been tested twice by the league during his suspension, including last week in New Jersey. He maintains that his body produced the substance naturally. 98 percent ready At a solid 261 pounds, Cushing is consuming 7,000 calories a day, while working out five to six days a week at DeFranco's Training Systems in Wyckoff, N.J. Not allowed to have any contact with the Texans, Cushing went to see his chiropractor, Dr. Brian Shannon, who has worked on him since he was in high school, and his nutritionist Dr. Tom Bilella, the New York Jets team nutritionist, on Wednesday. DeFranco says Cushing will be ready to play — at 98 percent, with two percent to come from a few days in pads — when he arrives in Houston on Sunday. Since he hasn't taken the pounding the rest of the league has endured thus far, in effect, he could come back in near-midseason condition without the standard midseason aches and bruises. DeFranco did some extended film study to break down NFL games, calculating averages for length of plays, downtime between plays, plays per possession, breaks between possessions, quarters and halves, and number of plays per game. With those numbers in mind, he created a workout regimen for Cushing that was built around him getting as close to an NFL game as one could get without being on the field. So he had Cushing doing sets of a workout that went about 5½ seconds, the average length of a play, with a 30-second break throughout a simulated drive, and a four- to seven-minute break for when Matt Schaub and the Texans' offense would presumably be on the field. Cushing went through that with a buildup toward his 62-play average of last season, which will be his workout today. And all of it is done while wearing a 12-pound vest to give the feeling of the weight of a helmet and sweaty shoulder pads. Simulating a game It is impossible too simulate the violence of an NFL game, but DeFranco hopes he came close by putting Cushing through a routine that had him flipping a 600-pound tire, sprinting five yards in one direction and five yards back to the ever-waiting tire for another toss. The goal was to give him a taste of the resistance of a blocker, the sprint of chasing down a ball carrier and the resistance in making the tackle. "In a sense, he's overcoming more resistance than he has to on the field," DeFranco said. "Hopefully when he runs into a 200-pound running back, it'll feel like nothing." The other day Cushing completed a two-step hurdle of 64 inches (his best last summer was 55 inches), and he almost cleared a ridiculous 67 inches. "I don't think you'll ever see another person at his size do that," DeFranco said. Bigger, faster, stronger? That is one heck of a way to answer the questions. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl...on+Texans+Football)&utm_content=Google+Reader
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Harping on what? Fact??? Whenever, I see stuff like this I'm reminded of Han Solo's observation in Star Wars Episode 4. To paraphrase: Looking good on YouTube is one thing. Looking good on the football field without PEDs is something else... I just hope he doesn't "over-train" to the point he turns into a girl...
