Right now I’m in a pickle with my football training. We just started our 5:15 morning workouts this week and like most high school weightlifting programs, its crap. Heres an example
Warm up run around gym
high knees, buttkicks, lunges ect to warm up
a circuit of 20 pushups, 20 4-count burpees (wtf), crunches ect for 10 minutes
Then skill and linebackers ran about 5 bleachers, then we went through some cone drills for 25 minutes then did core work for 10 minutes then we go to the weight room and do
1x10,1x8,1x6 Bench
1x10,1x8,1x6 Squat (my coach makes me do his idea of parallel which is quarter squats)
3x10 Box Pushups
3x10 Flys
3x10 Db Punches
You are paired up with other guys and have to do the same weight as everyone else in your group. We get about 45-70 seconds rest on each excercise and hardly have enough time to the entire lifting session before we have to go back to the gym to do some sprints and 100m lunge.
Then to top it all off our school breakfast is sausage, bacon, biscuits, and waffle sticks…
So I’m thinking that I:
a) I go to all 4 sessions a week (Mon-Thur) and lift after school Mon, Wed, Fri (prob do 5x5 program)
b) Join Rugby so I only have to go to workouts twice a week and then do lifting on days of no practice
and for breakfast I’ve been taking some whey protein mix and adding it to the 2 cartons of skim milk I buy with 2 sausage patties.
So I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to go and screw up my entire off season and high school football career and any hopes of getting a scholarship with these ridiculous workouts.