Thread: Quick question.

Yeah, get your cardio up to make sure you don't get embarrased on the field. Maybe even a few push-ups or something to keep your strenght up but nothing that would make you sore. Stretching should be done everyday.

Originally Posted by 911=InsideJob

Yeah, get your cardio up to make sure you don't get embarrased on the field. Maybe even a few push-ups or something to keep your strenght up but nothing that would make you sore. Stretching should be done everyday.

Embarassed? Hardly! But, yeah I hear what you're saying. All I have to do on the line is take 3-4 steps at the right angle and throw at a line backer. Not that hard.

I would cut the weights back big time during the season.

Originally Posted by ForemanRules

I would cut the weights back big time during the season.

Oh, I would, but we don't. We lift full body ( box squats, bp, power cleans, incline BB press ) 2 days a week.

Originally Posted by JordanMang

Oh, I would, but we don't. We lift full body ( box squats, bp, power cleans, incline BB press ) 2 days a week.

If they make you then just drop back the weights a bit, just use 80-90% of your normal workout weight. During the season a full body 1x a week is all you need IMO.

Originally Posted by ForemanRules

If they make you then just drop back the weights a bit, just use 80-90% of your normal workout weight. During the season a full body 1x a week is all you need IMO.

Have you ever seen a room weightroom full of lineman during the season ( much less the off season )? It's like "Okay, we'll do one set on this with like 50 lbs less then we should, and then on that we'll do two sets with like 20 lbs less, and then we'll just walk around the water fountain on that lift..." It's supposed to be "serious", but no one cares. Who wants to do a hard workout then go into football practice? No one. We slack off really bad in the weightroom during the season. Hell, if I really feel like it I'll just lay infront of the fan all period in the lockeroom. It's "required" of us to go lift and all that, but when you're on varsity as long as you're making plays they don't give a shit what you do. I'll probably do one serious workout on monday ( we do monday & wednesday if I remember correctly ), and then on wednesday I'll just go to the trainers office and get him to put heat on my back and stuff.

Yeah man, give yourself a few days of rest. If you're going to be training twice a day you will need it, whether you feel like it now or not. I'm sure you know this, and that's why you're asking. You know you should, but it helps to have someone else give you a little push in that direction if you truly enjoy training, heh.

I think resistance training full body twice a week is good in season. No need to push yourself too much though. You just want to maintain you strength and power for now.

what are the negatives to training hard during the season?? I know some of them are obvious, but I never played sports so someone enlighten me, as I've seen this a few times on here.

Also, does this set an athlete back in terms of gaining strength? Having to lay off for months at a time??

Originally Posted by PWGriffin

what are the negatives to training hard during the season?? I know some of them are obvious, but I never played sports so someone enlighten me, as I've seen this a few times on here.

Also, does this set an athlete back in terms of gaining strength? Having to lay off for months at a time??

During the season, you have so much training stress from conditioning work, games, and practicing sport specific skills, that doing too much resistance training would most definitely lead to overtraining.

Yes, it probably holds them back from reach their pinnacle of strength when you're talking gym lifts, but that's what the offseason is for, and their gym lifts don't really matter if they can perform on the field anyway. You make more general gains during the offseason, and then you transmute those general gains into specific gains during the preseason and inseason.

Jordan said he will be training twice a day already. Adding too much resistance training to that kind of schedule is suicide.

the main thing i want from an athlete during the season is to maintain strength that they gained in the offseason and if they can add a little then more power to them. 2 days a week of total body lifting (or eve upper/lower) is great. Moderate volume and intensities of about 80-85% should be good enough to maintain strength but every athlete is different and some can handle more then others. The main thing during the season is keep the strength you have and focus on transfering it over to the specific skills you need to be better at your sport by on field practices and then of course, being rested enough to play your best come game day. Football is easier to plan the weekly training for then other sports because you always know that the games are once a week (either friday night or sat. afternoon for high school) and not multiple times a week like baseball or baseketball. that is a little more tricky.