‘I tried to lie and say my mom was at my house and I had to go let her in’
If Jared Verse puts together a list of things he never wants to do again, working out with Aaron Donald might be at the top. The boisterous second-year defender talked trash about Donald’s training in an interview this offseason, to which the Rams legend responded by inviting Verse to his house for a little workout.
Being the ultimate competitor, Verse couldn’t decline that challenge, so he took Donald up on his offer. It didn’t take long for regret to set in.
After practice on Thursday, Verse hilariously shared his account of the workout with the future Hall of Famer and by the sounds of it, it was torturous. Verse was there for 45 minutes and the real workout hadn’t even begun; that was just the warmup.
It got to the point that Verse asked Donald’s wife, who came into the gym and laughed at him, to call the cops. He even tried to lie that he had to go home to let his mom into his house.
You can listen to Verse break it all down in the video below.
“I’ll tell you exactly what we did,” Verse began. “I show up, it’s like 11 in the morning. I’m thinking we’ve got like an hour workout. I got plans after. I have things I have to do throughout the day. I was planning on watching film and everything like that. We show up, he doesn’t say hi or anything like that. He sees me and he’s like, ‘Come on.’ He does a little dap up. We walk inside, he says, ‘Stretch how you have to.’ I stretch. Everything he does is a circuit. We do four workouts. It’s all cardio. Versa climber, bike, lunges and core. Four rounds each. You do all that. You’re already tired. You’re like, ‘Oh my god, whatever.’ Then you do four sets of core, two different workouts. So it’s eight different workouts, four sets each. You do all that for four sets. You go through these and he says, ‘Alright, you ready for the real workout?’ I’m like, ‘I’ve been here for 45 minutes. What are you talking about?’
“We go to the weight room. It’s all arms, that’s why he’s big as hell. We go to the weight room. It’s eight different circuits. All arms, four sets each. I’m there for an hour and a half. His wife came in laughing at me. I told her to call the police. I’m dead serious. I’m not even joking. I’m dead serious. I told him to call the police. She wouldn’t do it. I tried to lie and say my mom was at my house and I had to go let her in. He told me to give my keys to his management or assistant and that they would go let my mom in. So I wasn’t leaving. Finished the workout. I’m dead tired, I’m exhausted. I had a plan to go jump in the sauna afterwards, didn’t happen. I had plans to watch film, didn’t happen. Went home and I didn’t work out for another day and a half because I couldn’t move my body.”
Verse is an athletic freak who lives in the gym, but even he couldn’t match the intensity of Donald in the weight room. AD is a different animal, which is why he won three Defensive Player of the Year awards and is going to be a unanimous first-ballot Hall of Famer.
This will serve as a reminder to Verse that he should never challenge Donald to anything physical again. Nor should anyone. Ever.
