A little background… In high school I was a track and field athlete running mostly the 200m and 400m, I ran the 800m every now and again. I earned All-American honors my senior year and took a track scholarship to one of the premier “Track Schools” in the nation. When I arrived it was decided by the coaches I was to move up to the 800m and train with the distance coach, this proved to be a complete failure and resulted in 3 stress fractures in my right foot during my freshman year.
My sophomore year I was immobilized all fall and resumed training with the 400m group in January, in an effort to make up for lost time I pushed very had and eventually one of my stress fractures came back effectively ending my season before it even started. Between my athletic struggles and some personal struggles I decided with the coach that it was time to hang up the spikes and focus on academics… and that’s where I am now.
I have missed track and field this fall but I had an epiphany that I need to go a different direction. My greatest regret from high school was never playing football and I do not want to make the same mistake in college. While participating in Strength & Conditioning for Track I sparked some interest from the football staff due to my advanced level of strength beyond most of the football players my size. Considering all these factors I have decided to attempt to walk-on to my schools team for the 2012 season despite no football experience, the odds are against me especially considering the caliber of the team but I have faced tougher odds before.
I have about 3 months before pre-season conditioning workouts begin, so this post will be about where I am and where I want to be as far as raw strength.
Now 3-Month Goal
Height: 6’1’’ 6’1’’
Weight: 180 lbs 195 lbs
Squat: 365 lbs 405 lbs
Deadlift: 395 lbs 425 lbs
225lbs Bench: 4 Reps 15 Reps
Some additional points of interest:
+I had a 60 inch box jump pr in high school and I would like to return to that level.
+I would like to be close to 11’ in the standing broad jump in 3 months.
+My linear speed is as good or better than everbody on the team currently I just need to get my lateral and multi-directional speed up to par.
+I did extensive olympic lifting in high school and am a huge fan(210 lb snatch and 255 clean @165bw), but for this 3 month period I need to trim anything but the basics and focus my energy on that.
+I squat deep, very deep, ass to grass deep, and I strongly believe there is no other way to squat but I will occasionally use box squats and denote them as such in the log.
+I tend to get lazy with core work and I cannot let that happen for the next 3 months.
+I just started lifting upperbody wise because it was not needed for track, so I stand to make the largest gains in that category.
Move to Maryland and I will get you to where you want to be. I have a lot of experience training college football players. Let me know if you need any training advice.
[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
Move to Maryland and I will get you to where you want to be. I have a lot of experience training college football players. Let me know if you need any training advice.
Good luck buddy. I’ll be following your log.[/quote]
Not sure if you are being serious about moving to Maryland but that really isn’t an option for me at the moment. I would howerver, totally appreciate any feedback on my log.
If you squat so much, why are you using such a low percentage of your max during training?
We have roughly the same squat max, and 225x8 would barely be a warm-up for me.
Also, what position are you planning on playing?
Do you have any prior experience with football? It’s a lot more than just being big and fast, each position has it’s own special and individual skill-sets that need to be mastered, are you working on football specific training?
And lastly, and most importantly, what are you eating every day?
I ask so many questions because I’m eager to follow this log, and I hope you succeed.
I’m working towards the same goal, so I’m excited to see what you find useful, and what I can contribute.
[quote]iVoodoo wrote:
If you squat so much, why are you using such a low percentage of your max during training?
We have roughly the same squat max, and 225x8 would barely be a warm-up for me.[/quote]
I think you may have misread my post it says 255…hmmm I don’t know what to say otherwise
[quote]iVoodoo wrote:
Also, what position are you planning on playing?
Do you have any prior experience with football? It’s a lot more than just being big and fast, each position has it’s own special and individual skill-sets that need to be mastered, are you working on football specific training?[/quote]
I am looking at primarly free safety but I feel I could be used in a multitude of positions. In all probability if I make the team I would likely be used as a roll player on the scout team. In high school I participated in some run thrus and drills without pads but I ultimately decided to focus on track so that is the extent of my participation. Howerver I would consider myself extremly “football literate”, I understand coverages and assignments. During my training I will be doing football specific work, I am in the process of getting that orchestrated so I cannot speak to the extent that I will be doing drills.
[quote]iVoodoo wrote:
And lastly, and most importantly, what are you eating every day?[/quote]
This is probably going to come as a quite a shock but I am mostly vegan, but I do not consider this at all an issue.
[quote]LikeWater wrote:
Hey man… one of my former former teammates & friend started his college career similar to you… no football scolly… there for track
long story short he had a great NFL career, went from walk on to 4th round pick to a premier NFL cornerback
Ray McElroy… look him up bro[/quote]
Yea man, what I am doing is possible and dudes like your bud Ray prove it as much.
