Arizona State's summer conditioning program will be intense

With spring camp well under wraps it's time for Arizona State to move into its next phase.

Enter sports performance coach Shawn Griswold.

The Sun Devils on May 26 begin an intense nine-week summer conditioning program. "Those nine weeks are my season,"  Griswold tells ESPN's David Lombardi. "First game to last game."

Every program undergoes its own conditioning program, and like every program, Arizona State will add its own unique twist to it. Lombardi breaks it down.

"Every Friday, ASU will play a 'game,' but in workout fashion," Lombardi writes. "There'll be exercises tailored to different position groups -- linemen, for example, will push sleds -- and they'll all mimic the pace of how the Sun Devils plan to operate on Saturdays come Fall. Coaches will flash instruction cards for six seconds, the same amount of time it takes ASU to communicate and set up offensive play.

"The staff estimates that a snap happens about every 27 seconds on game day, so Sun Devil linemen will grunt into their sled pushes every 27 seconds, on the dot."

If intensity was what ASU was aiming for its conditioning program, then consider the mission accomplished. 

(h/t ESPN)

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