year of the gopher
Section 117, Row 4
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2008
- Messages
- 1,405
- Reaction score
- 6
- Points
- 38
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/290611151.html?page=1&c=y
A few weeks after committing to the Gophers last summer, Canadian running back Jonathan Femi-Cole added a lasting memory to one of his typical eight-hour daily workouts.
With a video camera rolling, he stepped inside a weightlifting device known as a trap bar, with six 45-pound plates pressed to each side, and attempted a 615-pound “dead lift.”
“I had done a lot of big lifts before,” Femi-Cole said. “This was my last lift last August before leaving for training camp, so I just wanted to push it over the top.”
The YouTube video has been a big hit for Gophers fans. It shows the 6-foot, 220-pound Femi-Cole, shirtless and chiseled, calmly exhaling before somehow hoisting those 615 pounds — think large vending machine, or a fully grown elk — from his toes to his waist.
Femi-Cole delivered plenty of on-field highlights, too, as he rushed for 1,615 yards and 12 touchdowns in eight games as a senior last fall at St. Andrew’s College, a prep school in Aurora, Ontario.
He’s one of three intriguing running backs committed to the Gophers heading into national signing day Wednesday, joining Shannon Brooks (from Jasper, Ga.) and James Johannesson (Fargo, N.D.). All three could battle for carries this fall, along with 2014 recruits Jeff Jones and Rodney Smith, as the Gophers look to replace workhorse tailback David Cobb.
A few weeks after committing to the Gophers last summer, Canadian running back Jonathan Femi-Cole added a lasting memory to one of his typical eight-hour daily workouts.
With a video camera rolling, he stepped inside a weightlifting device known as a trap bar, with six 45-pound plates pressed to each side, and attempted a 615-pound “dead lift.”
“I had done a lot of big lifts before,” Femi-Cole said. “This was my last lift last August before leaving for training camp, so I just wanted to push it over the top.”
The YouTube video has been a big hit for Gophers fans. It shows the 6-foot, 220-pound Femi-Cole, shirtless and chiseled, calmly exhaling before somehow hoisting those 615 pounds — think large vending machine, or a fully grown elk — from his toes to his waist.
Femi-Cole delivered plenty of on-field highlights, too, as he rushed for 1,615 yards and 12 touchdowns in eight games as a senior last fall at St. Andrew’s College, a prep school in Aurora, Ontario.
He’s one of three intriguing running backs committed to the Gophers heading into national signing day Wednesday, joining Shannon Brooks (from Jasper, Ga.) and James Johannesson (Fargo, N.D.). All three could battle for carries this fall, along with 2014 recruits Jeff Jones and Rodney Smith, as the Gophers look to replace workhorse tailback David Cobb.
