Pushing vehicles. Standing jumps onto trash bins. Video conferencing. Illinois is finding a way to maintain player fitness while filling the void of spring football.

“There was a day where our athletes went home for the summer,” Illinois coach Lovie Smith said Friday on a teleconference. “We had a weight program, a strength and conditioning program we had to follow. We had to find ways to get weight workouts in. There’s no weights (but) there’s situps, pullups, pushups. You can always go out and run 6 feet away from anyone else out there on the street. There’s ways to get by.”

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