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Grueling offseason workouts propel Berry

By Jon Mahoney
ESPNRISE.com

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

It was the spring of 2007. Miami Palmetto head football coach Larry Coffey had just put his team through a long scrimmage when then-sophomore running back Jaamal Berry asked if he could take the team's weight sled home. Berry planned to perform a workout where he attached a weight plate to the sled and dragged it by the affixed harness. Coffey immediately nixed the idea, knowing Berry was already tired from the scrimmage and risked hurting himself. Although Berry listened to his coach about the ...

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