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Fast Feet, Faster Brains: An inside look at the Chicago Fire’s most chaotic training drill

The drill doesn’t really have a name. But if you’ve watched any video from Chicago Fire training sessions this season, you’ve seen it.

As the players hop on the balls of their feet, off-camera, a man with an English accent shouts “TURN! TURN! TURN!” The players quickly change directions 180 degrees on every command. Then comes the fun part—the man will yell “RED!” or maybe “LEFT!” and the players take off in full-on sprints—sometimes in different directions—toward a finish line five meters or so away.

That’s when the scene unravels into chaos. Some players are frozen in place.