(12-08-2023, 02:17 PM)Caldrac Wrote:

(12-08-2023, 02:00 PM)I am Yoda Wrote: ....for the Olinemen

If it were up to me, every day of the off-season would be leg day for these guys.


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5x5 Stronglifts program. You do barbell squats 3x per week. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Every time you step underneath the bar on a new day, you add 5 pounds to the bar. Supposed to be build strength progressively. You rotate the other four kings of powerlifting weekly though in addition to the squats, same principle of adding 5 pounds to the bar. Bench Press, Deadlift, Military Press and Rows. All barbell. 

Kind of gives credence to that story of the boy that carried the calf up a mountain everyday on his back. As the boy grew along with the calf, he was eventually a young man carrying a bull on his back up the mountain. Good old fashioned progressive overload in small increments. 

A lot of those guys are born naturally strong and already hit really high PR's on the bench or in the weight room in general. Some guys are just freaks of nature though. Like Jalen Hurts, he's a little guy but his ability to squat 600 pounds as a QB is pretty wild. 

I remember as a kid, my Dad told me that Mark Brunell could bench press 400 pounds or something crazy like that. He wasn't the biggest guy neither. There's weight room strength, functional strength and field strength though. 

I have seen plenty of guys over the years throw up good amounts of weight in the gym, yet, they can barely do maybe 5 pull-up's. And, then on the flipside, when I did construction work when I was younger, there was this dude that could do pullups, body up against a wall with barely an inch or two of wood above his head, the S.O.B could use just his fingertips and lift himself up handedly. 

My favorite football term that gets thrown around in the scouting community is "Looks like Tarzan, plays like Jane". We've got a lot of Tarzan's that play like Jane's on this offensive line.
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There was a former rugby league star..who has since fallen from grace stupidly as he was very talented. Who was tried to make it to the nfl.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/sacramento/n...-defender/

Anyways, most of the players in rugby do alot of lower body work in order to help them generate power through tackles, speed etc

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