[Sidelines]

How many do you think?

[ERwarrior]

as of now whoever volunteers their time comes 3 days a week to lift. we dont watch film or anything like we should be. we just lift and dot drills. IMO its 3 or 4 days a week should be. but with other players doing basketball also its hard.:redboxer:

[Playboy5]

4 days a week! There is no offseason if a team wants to be successful!

[Ravens#52]

:wieghts: 4-days a week upper one day lower the next:wieghts:

[sf_football]

4 days a week

[#_4]

4 days a week. Upper body Monday and Thursday, Lower Body Tuesday and Friday. They can take Wens. off to rest up then have Saturday and Sunday to rest then get back to work on Monday.

[KentuckyHillBilly5321]

You guys may want to do a little looking--we have been having a great discussion along the same lines . . . .

[cash money]

JC works out 5 times a week upper body mon wend fri and lower body tues and thurs

[BruteForce01]

4 days a week and players should take it uppon them selves every night, 7 days a week to do pushups and situps. They should do curls with 20-30 or whaatever they can do and do some offseason runnin like the post called runnin says. That is what i do every night. 100 push ups and 100-350 cunches and 100 regular sit ups. You should also do pullups because they really help work the triceps and other parts of the arms. I am A workout freak.

[Football24_7]

They should do curls with 20-30 or whaatever they can do I am A workout freak.

Just curious, what is the relation to doing CURLS and getting better for FOOTBALL?

[BC75]

atleast 3

[Smokey]

Just curious, what is the relation to doing CURLS and getting better for FOOTBALL?

Not much.....maybe its to look proportional....curls dont benefit football players much. But I like the 7 day workout plan...weights on 5 of them...4days of sprints....agilities 3or 4 days....plyometrics on all 7....football drills on at least 4.

[ShakeandBake]

u should lift 4 days a week and focus on certain parts on certain days like upper on 1st day lower on 2nd and so on. and do push ups and situps every day and run sprints.

[Football24_7]

...plyometrics on all 7....

Smokey, you and I seem to think alike on training, except for one MAJOR thing!!!!

PLEASE don't do Plyometrics SEVEN days a week!

REAL plyometrics means "loading up" the muscle by placing a larger load on it than it's used to and then asking it to contract completely in the opposite direction of the loaded force. For instance, stepping down off a box and trying to jump up as high and quickly as possible.

It is GREAT training for all "explosive sports" (in some ways, it's the BEST training because it builds a lot of things needed for most sports at once: strength, quickness, coordination and does it while doing athletic MOVEMENTS -- as opposed to lying on a bench or standing flat-footed).

BUT...just because it's GOOD, doesn't mean the more you do it the better.

The analogy would be prescription drugs; if you have pain and your doc wants you to take a narcotic painkiller, taking more of it than is required for your pain isn't going to help. But is IS likely to do more harm in the future.

Because it places a higher amount of STRESS on the joints than regular weightlifting, HIGH-LEVEL Plyometrics REQUIRES a greater amount of "RECOVERY" than regular resistance weightlifting. Weights: recover 48hrs...Plyos: recover 72 hours.

So, that makes the best regimen for Plyos to be TWO days a week. Monday and Thursday or Tuesday and Friday.

But don't take my word for it (you have no idea of my credentials or background). Do a GOOGLE search for "Plyometrics Donald Chu recovery" (Donald Chu is a physiologist that led the way in scientific research on Plyometrics).

Now, there are LOW-LEVEL Plyometrics that do NOT put a great amount of stress on the joints, but are, by definition, "Plyometrics" because there's a "loading-rebounding" action going on -- like JUMP ROPE drills. THESE can be done on a DAILY basis and even on days following "High-Level" Plyos...but again, ONLY if the exercises give a LOW amount of stress to the joints.

[HeartOFaChampion]

I think that the players should have weight lifting class during school and then have weightlifting after school for 2 to 3 hours. but take friday and the weekend off to heal up and come monday morning back lifting.

[Dont Take It Away!]

4 a week

[Smokey]

24 7...I like that. I was thinking of some of the plyos we did. Low strain stuff. I like the idea of the explosive plyos though.

[OU_Bruiser]

At least 3 times a week i meant thats not much to ask for.........

[sf_football]

i think at least 4

[t-cat07]

ashland players have a class during school to lift

[Sidelines]

I took Geometry figured it would help me more in the long run...

[Football24_7]

I took Geometry figured it would help me more in the long run...

You know, I've been out of high school a pretty long time now...

...I work out virtually every day doing something similar to things I did in PE class (if not, I'd probably turn into something looking like Jabba the Hutt and be dead soon).

...I virtually NEVER do anything related to what I learned in my high school GEOMETRY class.

????
Other than math teachers, engineers, etc., couldn't that be true for just about everyone?
????

[tweeter]

4 a week.

[Degree]

4 times a week or even 5

[wildman_06]

Teams need to lift three times a week and on Tues and Thurs they should do plyo and sprints and whatever else that involves conditioning.

[Football24_7]

Teams need to lift three times a week and on Tues and Thurs they should do plyo and sprints and whatever else that involves conditioning.

The literature says there should be at least TWO days between high-impact plyometrics days. Those would be days where exercises cause the athlete to leave the ground 12 inches and jump again or drop off a box in excess of 12 inches.

[ROCK*60*]

5 days a week and run on saturday just so wont be sore

[pvilleguy]

6 days of the week, u cant let up if u wanna win

[Matt_Knee]

4 days a week and players should take it uppon them selves every night, 7 days a week to do pushups and situps. They should do curls with 20-30 or whaatever they can do and do some offseason runnin like the post called runnin says. That is what i do every night. 100 push ups and 100-350 cunches and 100 regular sit ups. You should also do pullups because they really help work the triceps and other parts of the arms. I am A workout freak.

pull-ups are for back and they hit ur bis too..not your tris

football players should do football related exercises. curling doesn't help much for football..
CLEANS, SQUATS, DEADLIFT, and BENCH should be your main concerns. people focus too much on bench instead of the other 3 and thats never good.

anthother thing, doing push-ups, sit-ups, crunches every single night isn't the best way to go about it. your chest tris and abs are just like any other muscle and they need time to rest. overtraining puts your body in more of a catabolic state and you wont get nearly as high gains. every other night would be better because your body would have time to rest and build muscle.

i agree with the 4 days a week thing though..i workout 5, but 4 is good if u actually workout instead of benching and curling everyday