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Yesterday the first day of football preseason with pads and helmets. But before that round up of the weeks training.
Tuesday, legs.
Front squats 30's 3x6. This week 5x6.
Leg press 7 plates 1x10
Glute/ham raise 55's x 2x8.
Thursday, Chest
Flirting with the idea of training chest twice a week low volume, heavy weights see how body responds.
Bench press
Pyramid x6,x5,x4,x3,2x2. Upto 37's.
Pump set cable cross overs 10kg x 25reps.
Back football training. 10.30am-3.00pm. 4.5hrs of training. We did sprints, tackles, formations, then split into respective positions for specialised coaching. Not sure what position i wanted to play in. One of the coaches took a look at me, then my legs and said "you look like a running back, join marco."
We practiced what i think is called the basket (getting the ball handed to you by the quarterback) over and over again. Practiced two plays a few times as well. Then coach broke us off. Offensive line and defensive line on each side to practice the plays.
First up were the two est running backs. First play we scored a touchdown. Didn't score shit after though, so celebration was short lived. After 10mins i took over from one of the rb. Our quarterback called the play i looked at my coach, and said "huh wtf i can't remember what that means!" He ran over and said run through the gap between so and so. Still confused i said ok.
Ball was handed to me i ran, hesitated then bapp! Two guys hit me simultaneously, one dood collided with my helmet and another hit my chest. I grabbed onto the first guys throat pushing him back to stop myself from falling backwards, whilst that was happening another guy jumped onto the other two guys and we ended up a heap on the floor.
I was shaken. They were swearing at me, and i was swearing back. Back to the huddle we did a different play, this time it went ok. I ran through the gap and got stopped in human traffic.
So it was a physical and harsh introduction to football. However a necessary one. I have some idea of what to expect next time, and know it'll be ten times tougher against opposition team. And all the guys that couldn't join the scrimmage will know there won't be any niceties from our defensive line.
Tuesday, legs.
Front squats 30's 3x6. This week 5x6.
Leg press 7 plates 1x10
Glute/ham raise 55's x 2x8.
Thursday, Chest
Flirting with the idea of training chest twice a week low volume, heavy weights see how body responds.
Bench press
Pyramid x6,x5,x4,x3,2x2. Upto 37's.
Pump set cable cross overs 10kg x 25reps.
Back football training. 10.30am-3.00pm. 4.5hrs of training. We did sprints, tackles, formations, then split into respective positions for specialised coaching. Not sure what position i wanted to play in. One of the coaches took a look at me, then my legs and said "you look like a running back, join marco."
We practiced what i think is called the basket (getting the ball handed to you by the quarterback) over and over again. Practiced two plays a few times as well. Then coach broke us off. Offensive line and defensive line on each side to practice the plays.
First up were the two est running backs. First play we scored a touchdown. Didn't score shit after though, so celebration was short lived. After 10mins i took over from one of the rb. Our quarterback called the play i looked at my coach, and said "huh wtf i can't remember what that means!" He ran over and said run through the gap between so and so. Still confused i said ok.
Ball was handed to me i ran, hesitated then bapp! Two guys hit me simultaneously, one dood collided with my helmet and another hit my chest. I grabbed onto the first guys throat pushing him back to stop myself from falling backwards, whilst that was happening another guy jumped onto the other two guys and we ended up a heap on the floor.
I was shaken. They were swearing at me, and i was swearing back. Back to the huddle we did a different play, this time it went ok. I ran through the gap and got stopped in human traffic.
So it was a physical and harsh introduction to football. However a necessary one. I have some idea of what to expect next time, and know it'll be ten times tougher against opposition team. And all the guys that couldn't join the scrimmage will know there won't be any niceties from our defensive line.