I love training with "athletes"

[JacktheThriller]

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Today i trained with 2 of the biggest (heaviest) guys on the football team.

Final Bench

Them 265x4

Me 315x6

WTF is going on with the level of ATHLETICS in the country. I dont like football and i dont play football but if i did id make sure i was the biggest, strongest mother****er on the field and just destroy people like this.

Hockey guys are worse MAX SQUAT for a defensman that comes to the gym 245x10 nothing special.

[Durk]

My old college roomate played semi pro football. At the time he had 20 pounds of body weight on me and I had about 40 pounds of strength on him on all of our major lifts. He could still throw me around like a rag doll when we wrestled. weightlifting really doesnt matter the most when it comes to athletics.

I bet if you went to practice with them they would make you look downright silly :)

[Memo]

yeah same with BJJ, a lot of people would out-bench me be come play on the mat it will be different.

[Durk]

Its all about functional strength the guy was weak by gym standards, so was I and I still am, but for someone like him to slam someone like me weighing 210 at the time classic Quinton rampage style, when I am trying my best not to be slammed lol takes a whole lot of functional strength.

[#8]

My old college roomate played semi pro football. At the time he had 20 pounds of body weight on me and I had about 40 pounds of strength on him on all of our major lifts. He could still throw me around like a rag doll when we wrestled. weightlifting really doesnt matter the most when it comes to athletics.

I bet if you went to practice with them they would make you look downright silly :)

Extremely accurate response by Durk.

Being "strong" in the gym at lifting free weights has little to do with ability level in sports. This does not negatively correlate with heavy lifting at all either. Having an ability that is natural to a sport (balance / agility) will get you much farther than brute strength most of the time. If the competition was to lift the most weight, all sports would be bodybuilding / strong man competitions.

[BAM]

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[_Ragnar_]

My experience has been exactly the opposite. I train with some guys who play junior football. One of them is a running back he is 5'9 185 lbs (natural) and has a PL total of over 1200lbs which includes a raw squat of 500lbs. The other one is my workout partner and he is easily the strongest person I know. He is a o-linemen, Pl total is just over 1600lbs. He is the only guy I have ever seen bench 405 for reps of 10. He also did 225 31 times on training camp. His max squat was 695 @19 years old.

[_Ragnar_]

Damn that's a big boy^. But seriously I love training with others that are bigger then me. Can always learn something from a conversation with them or watching their style. Plus it pumps me right up, great motivation.

Lifting with him has pushed me in a way that no one the same size as me ever has. I am proud to be able to lift half the weight he does. This is his last year of football, he is planing on focusing on BBing when he is done, (he plays in the Canada bowl on November 14th) I am exited to see him leaner. I know he lurks around here and I hope to get some posts out of him after season.

[Jeff Vanco]

Oh man I couldn't agree more.

Almost all guys I see in the gym WASTE THEIR TIME

Curls, supplements, "trainers", flex magazine routines equals weak

Olympic lifts, power lifts, food, equals ATHLETE

You weigh a buck sixty and can't power clean a measly 200lb? You ain't playin' college ball.

WHAT A JOKE

You should see some of the high school athletes up in T Bay

I know several football players who bench 400 and deadlift close to six.

Skill being equal, the stronger one wins.

[Danger]

Weird, where I workout almost all of the really strong guys either do strongman or high level athletics.