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lvbuckeye said:Kudla: do you know any herpetologists? 'cause my pythons are siiiiick...
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tsteele316
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the sad thing is he isnt even wearing his pads in that picture.
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chille37
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From the Ozone
"I did 520 five times. That's how we reduce injury. We won't do a one-rep max, but the coaches say that five reps at 520 is the same as 610 once," Kudla said.
http://www.theozone.net/football/2005/fallcamp/noteandquotebook081605.htm
"I did 520 five times. That's how we reduce injury. We won't do a one-rep max, but the coaches say that five reps at 520 is the same as 610 once," Kudla said.
http://www.theozone.net/football/2005/fallcamp/noteandquotebook081605.htm
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OSUBasketballJunkie
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Great read on Kudla and the adversity that he went through the last couple of years. Kudla benched 610, beating his old record of 555.<TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=0 width="98%" align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=3>Workout Warrior Kudla Looking for Career Year
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Mike Kudla
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Date: Aug 18, 2005
Senior defensive end Mike Kudla sets records in the weight room, but now he wants to excel on the football field as well. We recently caught up with Kudla to get his thoughts on the defensive line, rehabbing from shoulder surgery, the upcoming jersey scrimmage and more.
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AirForceBuck
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Like he told me at the autograph signing (in Columbus a few days ago):bucknuts44820 said:
ME: "Thanks for the signature Mike. I heard you put up 610 and then 250lbs - 50times?"
Kudla: "Yeah, I put up 610, but I put up 250lbs fifty- TWO times."
Hes a great guy, very humerous and humble, glad to have him on the squad. Great to know he recorved so well from the viral infections early on in his career.
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homerxsimpson
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Hey, jwinslow, do you happen to have a picture of the Squat board that you could post?
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homerxsimpson
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Thank you; it always surprises me to see Running Backs with bigger squats than Linemen.
No matter what people say about MoC, he was (is?) one strong SOB, especially since those where likely Freshman numbers to boot!
No matter what people say about MoC, he was (is?) one strong SOB, especially since those where likely Freshman numbers to boot!
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scarletngrey11
All right, all right, all right.
yeah i know what you mean about the running back thing, ive heard that clarett is still a beast in the weight room, although the 4.8 40 doesnt show that at all.
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scarletngrey11
All right, all right, all right.
its good to see that we still have quite a few guys on that board on this team.AJHawkfan said:
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Life in focus
Once weakened and near death, OSU's Mike Kudla is a picture of health again on the field and in the weight room
Friday, October 28, 2005
Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter
Columbus -- Picture Mike Kudla on a weight bench.
It's February 2006 at the NFL scout ing combine, and Kudla has a chance to dominate.
Ohio State strength and conditioning coach Al Johnson has envisioned that day, having watched Kudla destroy the Buckeyes' weight room so many times. Kudla is the strongest player on the team, among the top 1 percent of the strongest players Johnson has ever seen.
Kudla's goal for the combine: 50 reps on the bench press at 225 pounds. The unofficial combine record is 45, set in 2000 by Texas El-Paso defensive lineman Leif Larsen, a 6-5, 300-pound Swede who was drafted in the seventh round by Buffalo but quickly washed out of the NFL and is now a professional boxer.
"No question, he will be a great test-taker," Johnson said of Kudla. "He'll be one of those guys, they'll look at his body fat and his speed and say, Wow.' We've all seen great test-takers, but they can't perform between the white lines. They're workout monsters, gym rats -- and this kid is not that. He can play."
Kudla's vertical leap is 37 inches, which allows him to jump up on his parents' kitchen counters from a standstill. He has 9 percent body fat on his 6-3, 270-pound frame, the kind of body everyone encourages you to admire shirtless.
"He's very lean. He's a tight-skinned kid," Johnson said. "Today's generation would say he's all yoked up."
His one-rep bench-press has reached 560 pounds; he's squatted 625 pounds. When his family moved into a new development in Montville Township while Kudla was in junior high, he'd gather 200-pound rocks from a pile a quarter-mile from his new home and bring them back in a wheelbarrow to decorate the yard. Neighbors liked the look and started paying him $5 a rock - the wheelbarrow was a total loss.
He was soon disappearing into the basement for hours at a time, music cranking. He outgrew one weight set, then another and another. By the time he was a sophomore in high school, he was off to the gym, nothing his parents could buy offering a challenge anymore.
Brigham Young offensive lineman Scott Young led the 2005 combine with 43 bench reps at 225, and was drafted in the fifth round by the Philadelphia Eagles. Kudla is at 43 reps now, in-season. Fifty isn't that far away, at least not for Kudla.
Kudla near death
Picture Mike Kudla in a hospital room. A sheet draped over his body, he's bleeding from his eyes, ears, nose and mouth and his skin is falling off. Members of the hospital staff photograph him to document the destruction of his body. His mother, Mary Fran, reaches the hospital in Columbus and recognizes her older son only by the tattoo of a cross on his upper right arm.
It's January 2003, less than two weeks after the Buckeyes' national championship victory in the Fiesta Bowl, and freshman Mike Kudla has Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a viral infection that can be fatal or cause blindness. By the doctors' best guess, a case of mononucleosis during the season weakened his body to the point where the infection could move in.
He loses 52 pounds. His coaches and teammates call every day. But unable to speak, Kudla can only listen and make hand signals. To heal the tissue in his throat, he gargles a solution of Novocain. Doctors say the pain, on a scale of one to 10, is a 12.
He is given last rites. "We didn't know if he was going to survive," Mary Fran Kudla said. "Football wasn't even in the question. He was so close to not being here."
The family receives good news. Mike will be blind and mute and on dialysis for the rest of his life, but he will live. Gradually, the good news gets better. Kudla is young and strong, and those days in the weight room are fighting the infection scorching him from the inside out.
Ten months later, Kudla recovers a fumble for a touchdown in an overtime win against Purdue.
"It was a huge ordeal, and I had to put it in my past and say 'Let's move on,' " Kudla said. "But it took me the better part of a year to get back to normal."
Big Mike's fans
Picture Mike Kudla on his front steps. Across the street on Arlyne Lane, 7-year-old Lindsay Gatsios is in her bed when a voice and the sounds of a guitar float in her window.
It's a summer night, and Big Mike is back home, relaxing, singing the neighborhood to sleep. All the kids in this part of Medina call him Big Mike, always have. Lindsay's younger brother, Paul, used to point at every football player on television and ask, "Big Mike?" Now 5 years old, he knows to look for the 5 and the 7 for the scarlet and gray.
"He is the sweetest big guy," said Nancy Gatsios, mother to Lindsay and Paul and two other young Big Mike admirers. "He's so quiet. You'd never think he's be mean enough to do what he does on the football field."
Kudla is something of a hometown celebrity, but is more apt to seek out solitude in Columbus. He lives alone in an off-campus apartment, and over the last two years has taught himself to play the guitar.
"You get so amped up in film study and practice, I go home and my guitar is sitting right there," Kudla said. "I just pick it up and play, and you go to a different place. It takes your worries away. If you think about football 24/7, it puts a strain on your mind."
For months, he admits he was horrible. He's good enough now to occasionally play in public.
"If you stick with something long enough, you're bound to break through," Kudla said. "With anything, if you keep plugging away, good things will happen."
Kudla adjusts
Picture Mike Kudla in the Metrodome. It's Saturday. After this game against Minnesota, just four games will remain in his college career. At least he's having the season he's always waited for.
He was still recovering from Stevens-Johnson as a sophomore. Last season, he played through a pinched nerve in his neck, a four-inch tear in a shoulder muscle and against Michigan State popped his shoulder back into place five times before putting on a brace at halftime he wore the rest of the season.
Kudla's 5.5 sacks are second on the team behind Bobby Carpenter's eight. Last week against Indiana, Kudla started blowing by his blocker without even making a move. He knows no lineman will be stronger than him, and few will be as quick.
Against the Gophers, his day will focus on plugging holes against the run rather than chasing the quarterback. Kudla welcomes the adjustment.
Situations change, but he's always able to picture just what he needs to do.
To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:
[email protected], 216-999-4847
Life in focus
Once weakened and near death, OSU's Mike Kudla is a picture of health again on the field and in the weight room
Friday, October 28, 2005
Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter
Columbus -- Picture Mike Kudla on a weight bench.
It's February 2006 at the NFL scout ing combine, and Kudla has a chance to dominate.
Ohio State strength and conditioning coach Al Johnson has envisioned that day, having watched Kudla destroy the Buckeyes' weight room so many times. Kudla is the strongest player on the team, among the top 1 percent of the strongest players Johnson has ever seen.
Kudla's goal for the combine: 50 reps on the bench press at 225 pounds. The unofficial combine record is 45, set in 2000 by Texas El-Paso defensive lineman Leif Larsen, a 6-5, 300-pound Swede who was drafted in the seventh round by Buffalo but quickly washed out of the NFL and is now a professional boxer.
"No question, he will be a great test-taker," Johnson said of Kudla. "He'll be one of those guys, they'll look at his body fat and his speed and say, Wow.' We've all seen great test-takers, but they can't perform between the white lines. They're workout monsters, gym rats -- and this kid is not that. He can play."
Kudla's vertical leap is 37 inches, which allows him to jump up on his parents' kitchen counters from a standstill. He has 9 percent body fat on his 6-3, 270-pound frame, the kind of body everyone encourages you to admire shirtless.
"He's very lean. He's a tight-skinned kid," Johnson said. "Today's generation would say he's all yoked up."
His one-rep bench-press has reached 560 pounds; he's squatted 625 pounds. When his family moved into a new development in Montville Township while Kudla was in junior high, he'd gather 200-pound rocks from a pile a quarter-mile from his new home and bring them back in a wheelbarrow to decorate the yard. Neighbors liked the look and started paying him $5 a rock - the wheelbarrow was a total loss.
He was soon disappearing into the basement for hours at a time, music cranking. He outgrew one weight set, then another and another. By the time he was a sophomore in high school, he was off to the gym, nothing his parents could buy offering a challenge anymore.
Brigham Young offensive lineman Scott Young led the 2005 combine with 43 bench reps at 225, and was drafted in the fifth round by the Philadelphia Eagles. Kudla is at 43 reps now, in-season. Fifty isn't that far away, at least not for Kudla.
Kudla near death
Picture Mike Kudla in a hospital room. A sheet draped over his body, he's bleeding from his eyes, ears, nose and mouth and his skin is falling off. Members of the hospital staff photograph him to document the destruction of his body. His mother, Mary Fran, reaches the hospital in Columbus and recognizes her older son only by the tattoo of a cross on his upper right arm.
It's January 2003, less than two weeks after the Buckeyes' national championship victory in the Fiesta Bowl, and freshman Mike Kudla has Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a viral infection that can be fatal or cause blindness. By the doctors' best guess, a case of mononucleosis during the season weakened his body to the point where the infection could move in.
He loses 52 pounds. His coaches and teammates call every day. But unable to speak, Kudla can only listen and make hand signals. To heal the tissue in his throat, he gargles a solution of Novocain. Doctors say the pain, on a scale of one to 10, is a 12.
He is given last rites. "We didn't know if he was going to survive," Mary Fran Kudla said. "Football wasn't even in the question. He was so close to not being here."
The family receives good news. Mike will be blind and mute and on dialysis for the rest of his life, but he will live. Gradually, the good news gets better. Kudla is young and strong, and those days in the weight room are fighting the infection scorching him from the inside out.
Ten months later, Kudla recovers a fumble for a touchdown in an overtime win against Purdue.
"It was a huge ordeal, and I had to put it in my past and say 'Let's move on,' " Kudla said. "But it took me the better part of a year to get back to normal."
Big Mike's fans
Picture Mike Kudla on his front steps. Across the street on Arlyne Lane, 7-year-old Lindsay Gatsios is in her bed when a voice and the sounds of a guitar float in her window.
It's a summer night, and Big Mike is back home, relaxing, singing the neighborhood to sleep. All the kids in this part of Medina call him Big Mike, always have. Lindsay's younger brother, Paul, used to point at every football player on television and ask, "Big Mike?" Now 5 years old, he knows to look for the 5 and the 7 for the scarlet and gray.
"He is the sweetest big guy," said Nancy Gatsios, mother to Lindsay and Paul and two other young Big Mike admirers. "He's so quiet. You'd never think he's be mean enough to do what he does on the football field."
Kudla is something of a hometown celebrity, but is more apt to seek out solitude in Columbus. He lives alone in an off-campus apartment, and over the last two years has taught himself to play the guitar.
"You get so amped up in film study and practice, I go home and my guitar is sitting right there," Kudla said. "I just pick it up and play, and you go to a different place. It takes your worries away. If you think about football 24/7, it puts a strain on your mind."
For months, he admits he was horrible. He's good enough now to occasionally play in public.
"If you stick with something long enough, you're bound to break through," Kudla said. "With anything, if you keep plugging away, good things will happen."
Kudla adjusts
Picture Mike Kudla in the Metrodome. It's Saturday. After this game against Minnesota, just four games will remain in his college career. At least he's having the season he's always waited for.
He was still recovering from Stevens-Johnson as a sophomore. Last season, he played through a pinched nerve in his neck, a four-inch tear in a shoulder muscle and against Michigan State popped his shoulder back into place five times before putting on a brace at halftime he wore the rest of the season.
Kudla's 5.5 sacks are second on the team behind Bobby Carpenter's eight. Last week against Indiana, Kudla started blowing by his blocker without even making a move. He knows no lineman will be stronger than him, and few will be as quick.
Against the Gophers, his day will focus on plugging holes against the run rather than chasing the quarterback. Kudla welcomes the adjustment.
Situations change, but he's always able to picture just what he needs to do.
To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:
[email protected], 216-999-4847
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ohiostate=life
Still Workin Hard...
Awesome story. I should be on my way to class but that's worth being a little late. Best of luck to Mike at the combine but more importantly this weekend. Great story. Greenies for you.
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