Lift, eat, and change positions. Stick to linebacker.
i hope kingmike is kidding. Your stats are much better suited to a lineman than a linebacker. Sorry to say but your not going to track down too many running backs with a 5.3 40yd. I’ll be reading your log, track practice and WS4SB should be kicking your butt. Work hard and you will see many improvements ahead.
About the sprinting work question: It probably wouldn’t hurt this summer when you get closer to the season, but as for now track practice(assuming your taking it seriously) and your workouts should be taking a pretty big toll on your body. In your spare time you should be eating and resting, not running.
You should be ok. As young as you are you have HUGE room for improvement. Keep up in the weight room and stick with your T&F events so you’ll get more explosive. At the high shool level you’re big enough to play Center, you don’t have to be a monster. And you’ll get bigger and stronger. Stick with it.
I play high school center at 5’8" and weigh a little over 230 with 20% body fat. At 5’11 your frame should be able to carry even more weight than mine but you have to do the squats and power cleans and eat enough to put it on. like AssClown said at high school you don’t NEED to weigh over 300 pounds and be a freak like D1 but you would do good weighing in the mid 200’s. Linemen can get away with a little bit of fat but don’t allow yourself to become a slob.
[quote]twolvez wrote:
So I play line in high school. Should I really worry about being all that lean? I weigh 205 right now at 5’11". I also run a 5.32 forty yard dash. I play center. Should I get lean, or just keep eating as much as I can (healthy obviously) and just get stronger??[/quote]
Definitely try to gain strength/muscle before trying to get any leaner. I played the line at 175#, but that was also at a tiny high school, and our team sucked bigtime. Work on improving your strength, endurance, quickness/agility, etc. and if you are really concerned about changing your weight, I would try to gain (lean mass of course) rather than lose.
twolves, I played center in high school weighing 225 and 5’11. I was an all conference first team center twice. Don’t let size fool you, it is important but not as important as a quick first step and ability to be read defenses vocally and correctly.
I would suggest running a ton of 40’s and all of them starting from different starting points, I.E. laying on the ground on your stomach, and on your back, football stance, etc.
Work on your quickness and strength and the muscle will come.
With the linemen I coach we concetrate on the aformentiond 40’s as well as box jumps and truck pushes. Kick the crap out of your power cleans/ DE squats, and heavy squats.
Yesterday I did dynamic effort which consisted of these
Vertical Jumps - 1 to 3 jumps - 5 to 8 sets
Bulgarian Split Squats (Added ROM) - 8 to 10 reps - 2 to 3 sets
GHR - 8 to 12 reps - 3 sets
Barbell Russian Twists - 10 to 15 reps - 4 sets
I couldn’t do GHRs, they were incredibly hard for me, so I switched it out with RDL. I did them with someone holding my legs, going to the ground, and back up. I couldn’t get up from the bottom of the motion.
I also exchanged Barbell Russian Twists with Dumbbell Side Bends. Both of those were listed on the same line as the aforementioned lifts.
Here’s what today looked like
Incline DB press - Max Reps - 3 Sets
Lat Pulldowns - 8 to 12 reps - 3 Supersets with exercise below
Rear Delt Flyes - 8 to 12 reps - 3 Superests with above exercise
DB Lateral Raises - 8 to 12 reps - 4 sets
DB Shrugs - 8 to 10 reps - 3 Supersets with exercise below
Barbell Curls - 8 to 10 reps - 3 Supersets with above exercise.
Heavy Dumbbell Holds - 3 sets of max time
All in all it was a good workout. No practice tomorrow so I’m gonna hit the weights heavy.
[quote]KingMike wrote:
Lift, eat, and change positions. Stick to linebacker. [/quote]
ditto