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Virtual workouts can still be literal hell.
ESPN.com’s Jamison Hensley explains that the Ravens’ off-season virtual workouts included the team’s notoriously challenging conditioning test.
“It’s pure death,” former Ravens running back Justin Forsett told Hensley. “It is the toughest conditioning test I had during my time in the NFL,” added Forsett, who played for seven teams.
The test consists of players running 900 yards in six sets, with multiple changes of direction. Each set consists of 150 yards, with players running and returning three times. The time limit varies from 32 seconds to 27 seconds, with 64 seconds of rest between each series.
As Hensley explains, things start to get tough in the six-set room.
“By then, my legs were gone,” former Ravens cornerback Fabian Washington told Hensley. “You can’t pick them up. It feels like you are running in the mud. It was definitely a shock. . . . It is literally the most difficult garbage in history. “
And it’s something the team did this year by having players place their phones on a tripod so coaches can watch them do it and time them. In a low season with no opportunities to work directly with players, the conditioning test at least helps ensure that, when they report to boot camp, they are fit.
