Lifting during football season?

mrpimp2you · 16-Jul-03, 02:08 PM

I was wondering something. I have gained alot of hard earned muscle and weight from working out hard in the gym. Well i dont really wanna lose that and I need a wy to keep it. For people who have experienced a sport liek football it is brutal. Did you guys lift durign the football season. And if so what was ur workout routine thru the football season. See i dont really wanna get tired from lifting. I just maye wanna do light lifitng to keep my muscle. And maybe take glutamine? to preserve my muscle. I just need sum tips on how to do this during the big high school football yr. So bascially the quisiton is.....HOW CAN I PRESERVE MY MUCLSE OR ADD EVEN MORE MUSCLE DURING THE STRANIOUS FOOTBALL SEAOSON AND WHAT KIND OF WORKOUTS AND SUPPS I COUDL TAKE TO DO THIS? ...because losing weight and mass woudlnt be good!

Scout · 16-Jul-03, 02:16 PM

I play football. We were lifting four days a week before practice started, and now we're only lifting two days a week, for me its tuesday and friday. I do a full-body workout on both of those days. I would lift more but that and practice is too much. I don't do a fancy workout, I usually do bench press, weighted dips, military press, shrugs, squats, calve raises, and leg curls.... sometimes it changes but thats about all for lifting now.

ebon00 · 16-Jul-03, 05:36 PM

A lot fo the writing on in-season training recommends lesser frequency (the general rule is to cut everything in half). As long as the season's on you don't try to gain, you try to retain your strength. The simplest way of doing that is to do two whole-body workouts each week. That ensures that you don't overtrain since you have limited time. Do one heavy workout and one light/medium workout. If possible, schedule the heavy workout the day after a game. I know, it's a hellish way to train (and if you've been slightly injured during the game you move the workout for the next day after that) but the reasoning is simple: you want as much recuperation between your heavy workout and your games as possible. This is in-season, focus must be on the games.

Limit exercise selection to only those that work the most muscle mass. Large compound exercises are the order of the day. (Some smaller work like for the rotator cuff can be beneficial though.) If you can, make the light workout an explosive one for one or two movements (say, cleans and push jerks). Explosiveness is the key to power and power will win over strength any day.

BiKr2005 · 16-Jul-03, 06:01 PM

My old football program, we lifted Monday-Wednesday doing Bench, Incline, Squat, Deadlift and Power clean

Do 5 reps 4x with everything...don't use more than 85% of max

teenpumper · 17-Jul-03, 05:18 PM

i just went all out and did whatever i could with the energy i had after practice. during wrestling i also went all out (only upper body though) and got HUGE results. you nothing for energy butn it helps. you kinda have to arrange your workouts depending on games and stuff like that. just experiment a little because instead of just preserving the muscle you can make huge gains if done right

alucard · 17-Jul-03, 10:13 PM

i also wanna suggest you make sure to eat enough. i played football and was a wide receiver so i had to run a lot but at the end of practive everybody had to do conditioning and regardless of your position everybody is tired when conditioning starts(cept for kicker maybe =P ) and just dead at the end- TONS of cardio. so your gonna be burning a lot of calories and just make sure you are gettin the proper amount of nutrients so that your body doesnt start to take away from your muscles.

i didnt know jack **** about nutrition when i played so id actually go through a whole school day and football pracice only eating a 2 chocolate chip cookies at lunch. it made things so much harder and i bet it took a tole on my body.

AdamJM · 18-Jul-03, 12:54 AM

Hey, I think no matter what ur gunna lose some strength. If ur game's on friday I would work out Sunday, Monday, Tuesday if possible. I know last year I started the season weighing 205 benching 205, squatting 305, and cleaning 195. After the season was over and done with I weighed 185, benched 185, squatted 245 (with a badly sprained knee), and cleaned 165, you will get it back though if you work hard pretty fast (I was plagued with injury, so I couldn't) but I saw guys throw 40 lbs on their bench after the season ended.