So I am a senior on our school varsity team. Tomorrow, on Monday, the 15th, we begin out first week of hell weeks! Does anyone else here play high school football? If so, how do you work with this heat besides water. I've always hated our he'll weeks because of it, just looking to see how other teams do with their time! Let the contact begin!

I did. But we conditioned everyday throughout the spring offseason so hell week was nothing.

Thats why I'm glad I live in New Zealand. It rarely gets too hot to play Rugby.

EDIT: Think I misunderstood you....

Today was hot, and I am dehydrated haha

Try doing the Crucible in the Marines. It kicked my ass harder than anything before. We went through a similar hell week where I boxed and that was intense (though indoors so didn't have to worry about heat as much) then I got to the Crucible and was ready to die a dozen times over.

Water. Water. Water. Water. NO GATORADE. Water. Water. Water. Water. Take your helmet off when the coach isn't looking. Water. Water. Water. Water. Don't think about water while your conditioning, it just makes it more painful. I can't wait till fall.......

And we are talking American style football, right? Because I know next to nothing about soccer and have no interest in it.

EDIT: And if you don't vomit the first day of conditioning, you might be doing it wrong.

Yes, water! And yes American football. I threw up a little bit today and we did a lot of conditioning!

My son runs cross country, you know, the sport that is the punishment of all other sports. He runs a minimum of five miles a day. Once it gets cooler, it will move up to seven to ten miles a day. He has been asked byn the coaches at his school to join their american high school football and soccer/football teams but he refuses.
He is allowed to keep a gallon container of water in his locker at school, gets passes for the restroom and exteneded travel time between classes.
Because in Florida, heat exhaustion and death is a very real issue.

Drink water all day long. Gatorade is for after you have exerted yourself, and only to replace electrolytes and minerals lost.

I never got any of that in High School, and it reaches high 90's every day in the summer in Missouri.

Then again, my High School only cared about football and basketball. All other sports weren't acknowledged publicly.

Basketball. baseball, and football tend to be popular and make schools money. Academics don't, aside from that given because of state standartized testing rankings for public schools. Which is why sports are a good thing for many schools.
While football and basketball do make money, his school has raked in the cash for their track and field competitions.
Wisely, the school ( which is private) built a state of the art olympic sized track, and the income generated from tickets and consessions had been phenomenal.
Track and field events, unlike football, run a minimum of six to eight hours. I was shocked, the first time I went to a track and field event. The amount of people there far surpassed the crowd at football games. Track and field is big here. It is as popular as football, as is swim team, even in public schools.

This is sort of funny so I have to share
There's been a sort of rivalry between football players and cross country due to a comment by the football coach that CC wasn't a sport.
Which ticked the entire CC team off, as they are all quite fit and their trophy cabinet has plenty of occupants. The football coach needed wide recievers, but he pissed off all the CC runners, and not one of them would consider joining the team. Last season was not so good for the football team, hopefull this one will be better. I pity those football players out in the heat, with all that hot ass equipement on, getting pummeled by people, many of them really big.

I imagine it's a little like working 10 hour days in construction, in 102 degree heat, and that isn't fun at all I can tell you. Hydration starts the day before, drink plenty of water.

Several years ago in high school I played football for awhile.

Never knew I had asthma until then.

We've been under heat warnings 24/7 in NC, so we always are out 7 to 9. When it gets above like 92, which is every day recently, we aren't allowed to practice any earlier. It [censored] with my schedule at first, but it's better then the alternative, a kid died recently in a town not too far from here from heat.

Above 92? :mellow:

We'd be practicing in 105 degree weather on the turf. And the turf increases the temperature too.