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Inside The Park: Athletic Background

(Photo provided by The Star Press in Muncie, Ind.)

Note: Each day during the team’s training camp, Washington Redskins’ outside linebacker Ryan Kerrigan will blog his insights about the team and his own life as he begins his second season in the NFL. To ask Ryan a question for the blog, you can leave a comment below, tweet your question to the Redskins’ account (@Redskins) with the hashtag #KerriganBlog, or leave a comment on the Redskins’ Facebook or Google+ pages.

I’ve decided to switch things up a little bit today and talk about my past athletic endeavors and what they have meant to me.

Most of you guys probably wouldn’t expect this given my size, but I used to be a swimmer for most of childhood. From the time I was 7 years old until I was 14 I swam competitively.

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Training Camp Video: RBs Work On Hands

One of the most critical aspects of the Washington Redskins’ offense will be the ability of their running backs to catch the ball out of the backfield.

The team was working on that very skill Wednesday afternoon at practice.

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Training Camp Video: Wide Receiver Drills

The Washington Redskins’ group of wide receivers got a good start to Wednesday’s training camp practice with some footwork drills.

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Training Camp Video: QBs Toss To WRs

Wednesday’s training camp afternoon practice at Redskins Park saw a few more technical routes from the team’s wide receivers.

Offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan was really focusing on the fade route in the end zone — something that looks a lot easier on TV or from the stands than it is to actually execute correctly.

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Training Camp Video: Offensive Line

Wednesday’s practice — the sixth of Training Camp 2012 — is underway for the Washington Redskins.

Our first video of the day comes from the Redskins’ offensive line, which is working hard to prepare anybody and everybody as the preseason gets closer and closer.

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Rookie Spotlight: Adam Gettis

Each day during training camp, the Redskins Blog will be highlighting one rookie as they participate in their first professional camp and try to find their way onto the final roster. Today’s spotlight is on guard Adam Gettis.

Washington Redskins’ rookie guard Adam Gettis first played organized football his freshman year in high school and developed into a two-star prospect not recruited to play by many big colleges.

Fast forward five years later, and Gettis is the fifth-round selection of the Redskins in April’s NFL Draft.

It’s been a whirlwind experience that even Gettis said he can’t believe sometimes.

“You don’t think it’s going to happen,” Gettis said Monday after the Redskins’ morning walk-through practice. “Being a two-star guy, you don’t think those guys are going to make it, but it’s all about work and opportunity and you have to take advantage of those types of things.”

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RGIII’s No. 2! (In Jersey Sales)

Just as he was in April’s NFL Draft, Redskins’ quarterback Robert Griffin III is No. 2.

But this time, it’s in NFL jersey sales.

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Inside The Park: Cold Tubbin’

(AP photo)

Note: Each day during the team’s training camp, Washington Redskins’ outside linebacker Ryan Kerrigan will blog his insights about the team and his own life as he begins his second season in the NFL. To ask Ryan a question for the blog, you can leave a comment below, tweet your question to the Redskins’ account (@Redskins) with the hashtag #KerriganBlog, or leave a comment on the Redskins’ Facebook or Google+ pages.

Well, would you look at that! We’re not but five or six practices into the season and our new indoor practice facility already comes into use.

That thing is going to be great to have this season, especially when November and December rolls around and it’s much colder outside. It was also way cooler in there today, too, so I give the indoor facility two thumbs up so far.

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