{"id":7821,"date":"2015-07-13T06:41:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T10:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7821"},"modified":"2015-07-13T06:41:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T10:41:42","slug":"jmu-football-getting-stronger-by-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7821","title":{"rendered":"JMU Football Getting Stronger by the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v_6Nk8u1n_A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While the rest of us spend out summers doing whatever it is we do, the members of the JMU football program are putting in work. Practice hasn&#8217;t kicked off yet, but strength training and conditioning are in full effect. And as you can see in the above video, it&#8217;s not something the players are taking lightly.<\/p>\n<p>True to his word, Coach Withers has the guys competing at everything they do. For some reason someone has chosen to compete in his skivvies and a Superman cape, but that&#8217;s a topic for another day. With only a few short months until football season, this is one of those videos that makes me run through a brick wall. Well, that&#8217;s not true. But it does have me pumped up enough that I feel like I could run a 6.2 forty or lift 150 pounds.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D7821&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the rest of us spend out summers doing whatever it is we do, the members of the JMU football program are putting in work. Practice hasn&#8217;t kicked off yet, but strength training and conditioning are in full effect. And as you can see in the above video, it&#8217;s not something the players are taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3785,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=3785","url_meta":{"origin":7821,"position":0},"title":"JMU Football Facing Potential Loss of One Guaranteed Win a Year","date":"April 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"With all of the scandals that have rocked college football recently, I've still never heard of a school being penalized by taking away future wins. 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