A student from Period 2 

About three years ago, I joined a basketball league at Delasalle during the summer of 2011. At the time I had been playing basketball for about seven years and I really wanted to become a much better basketball player. So the first day of training came and I was actually pretty nervous because I heard from a lot of my friends that the coach made them train like their life depended on it. So that wanted to make me want to take a dump in my pants right from the start. As I entered the gym I saw many kids getting their equipment together. The first day was one of the hardest days of my life. It was not what I expected it to be. The coach just right away called us and told us to grab a ball and start doing drills with it at a really fast pace. Just the drills with the ball got me so sweaty. After that coach White told us to grab a jump rope and jump as fast as we can for a good ten minutes. By this time I was extremely exhausted and I just wanted to leave and it wasn't even the first hour. After the jump ropes the coach had us split into three groups to do drills in which whoever ends up with the ball the last in each of the groups had to make a lay-up and if we missed we had to do twenty push ups. I was so scared because when I saw the first group go, they did all these turns and passes with the ball. And the worst part was that if one person in your group messes up, the whole group has to sprint a long lap. So at this point I was already pooping bricks. So it's my groups turn and I have no idea what to do. Coach White yells "GO!" and I'm just trying to do what the other guys are doing. Then one of my teammates passes me the ball and as soon as he passes it to me I pass it to the other guy but it turned out I had to make the lay-up. So my group had to run a lap because of me. I felt like crap. Finally after five times of  doing the same thing, we did exercises which were a lot better than what we were doing before. Although these exercises just caused pain all over my body. At the end of practice I was just lying face first on the floor along with everyone else. To be completely honest, the work outs I did in the basketball league made my currents coaches' workout seem like a walk in the park. They're still hard though.