West Ham star shares extreme measures taken during short pre-season
West Ham United forward Jarrod Bowen has opened up on his extreme pre-season methods to prepare for the Premier League season.
Players have only had one month to themselves this summer before being thrown straight back into the action due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Irons get their campaign underway on Saturday evening against Newcastle with a number of injury worries – Bowen definitely not one of those.
Bowen claimed he spent two weeks completing a fitness plan by his father before starting pre-season with the Hammers, meaning he would have had literally no break.
“I call it my old man’s boot camp,” he told the Daily Mail. “Usually, we have two weeks at it hard before my club pre-season and it’s very old school.
“The worst one is a wheelbarrow full of muck that I have to push up a hill, empty it and carry back. I have to do that again and again for an hour. Dragging tractor tyres is another one.
“This summer it was mainly running in my uncle Stu’s potato fields. The ground is so heavy it’s like running on sand and means that when you finally get back to grass it feels like a breeze.”
This is exactly what we want to be hearing.
Last season, David Moyes would have been getting frustrated with his big-name players not turning up on a weekly-basis and pushing as hard as they could, rather than looking lazy.
Bowen only arrived in January from Hull City, and only six others were involved in more goals all season – not good enough and one of the reasons why West Ham only just avoided relegation.
The 23-year-old has been pushing hard, and we can’t wait to see what he can do with a full Premier League season ahead of him.
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