Trench WARFARE
Inside the grind that is training camp
Advertisement
Read this article for free:
or
Already have an account? Log in here »
To continue reading, please subscribe:
Monthly Digital Subscription
$1 per week for 24 weeks*
- Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
- Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
- Access News Break, our award-winning app
- Play interactive puzzles
*Billed as $4.00 plus GST every four weeks. After 24 weeks, price increases to the regular rate of $19.00 plus GST every four weeks. Offer available to new and qualified returning subscribers only. Cancel any time.
Monthly Digital Subscription
$4.75/week*
- Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
- Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
- Access News Break, our award-winning app
- Play interactive puzzles
*Billed as $19 plus GST every four weeks. Cancel any time.
To continue reading, please subscribe:
Add Winnipeg Free Press access to your Brandon Sun subscription for only
$1 for the first 4 weeks*
*$1 will be added to your next bill. After your 4 weeks access is complete your rate will increase by $0.00 a X percent off the regular rate.
Read unlimited articles for free today:
or
Already have an account? Log in here »
Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 22/06/2009 (5944 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Ask any Winnipeg Blue Bomber — shoot, any footballer anywhere — and they’ll spit out the words "training camp" with the same disdain usually reserved for "root canal" or "paternity test."
Imagine, after all, being put through an emotional and physical wringer for two weeks with your football career at stake. Your body aches, your brain hurts and the most precious commodity of all is sleep, glorious sleep.
Wake-up call comes at 5:45 a.m., there are four hours on the field daily where every single drill is being filmed, analyzed and graded. And we mustn’t forget the seemingly endless meetings afterward where a playbook the size of the Mexico City telephone directory is drilled into your skull over and over and over again.
The payoff for the 42 men who make the Bomber roster is the chance to suit up July 2 in Edmonton against the Eskimos in the 2009 Canadian Football League opener. For those who don’t cut it, the grind that is training camp is an experience best erased permanently from the memory banks.
Recently, two crack photographers from the Free Press‘s award-winning department — Wayne Glowacki and Phil Hossack — followed the Bombers around from sunrise to sunset to document a typical training camp day in pictures.
Here is their work, which can also be seen at winnipegfreepress.com.
ed.tait@freepress.mb.ca
The grind
A typical training camp day:
5:45 a.m. Wake-up
5:45-6:45 a.m. Mandatory
breakfast
6:15-6:45 a.m. D-Tape
6:45-7:15 a.m. O-Tape
7:45 a.m. Practice
10:30 a.m. Meeting
11:30 a.m. Lunch
1 p.m. Treatment
2 p.m. D-Tape, O-Meeting
2:45 p.m. O-Tape, D-Meeting
3:30 p.m. Practice
6 p.m. Dinner
6:45 p.m. Treatment
8 p.m. Meeting
11 p.m Curfew
