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Well, I was hoping that someone could help me choose a position. I was thinking wide reciever or half back because Im smaller than everyone else and way too small to be a lineman but I cant run super fast.Wolf Devil said:Carido is really important for varsity football. On our team, we aren't considered jack if our linemen can't give a good jog for a mile. After that it's really about upper body strength. So yeah, weights are supposedly good, but since you are only 15, forget it. Just do pushups... Day in and day out. Almost everything you need to be able to play varsity football is your body, and being able to control it...
Do you know what position you're wanting? That might help me tell you what to do, but really it's all basic. Let me give you a few exercises to do that are considered essential:
Push ups. It sounds simple, but honestly, if you can't lift your own body weight off the ground with your arms, you have almost no chance in hell of making it. Especially if you're defense, since you need to shed blocks using your arms.
And by the way, defense is usually VERY big on upper body strength, and not so much cardio. I digress...
So yeah, being able to do a fair amount of consecutive push ups really count. 35+ is good, but only do 10 for circuit training.
After that there are some jump squats you can do. Put your fingers behind your hears, squat down til your thighs are about 45 degrees to parallel to the ground, then EXPLODE upward with your legs. Do this about 10 times for circuit, 20-30 times or for 10 minutes for normal conditioning.
Now lie on your back, put your hands underneath your abdomen. Raise your legs 6 inches off the ground. Spread them apart, then put'em together about 10 times.
Get up, do 10 more jump squats for circuit.
On your back again, cross your legs, then bring them up as far as you can. Place your fingers behind your ears, then bring your elbows up til they touch your knees (or as far as possible)
10 jump squats.
10 pushups.
Somewhere in there, include 10 chin ups.
Those are all essential conditoning excercises for football.
More body weight control: do the 6 inches up thing with your legs again, 10 times apart and together. Now go to a foot up, 10 times apart and together. Now bring your legs up to 90 degrees and do bicycle kicks for about 30-60 seconds. Do all this without lifting your shoulders.
After that, stay on your back, take a 1 minute break.
Now bring your arms up, and put your fingers behind your ears again. With your legs straight on the ground, attempt to raise your torso off the ground about 15 degrees. Put your arms out to your side and bring them back in 10 times. Now go up to about 30 degrees off the ground, and do the arms again 10 times. Then 45 degrees, arms out and in 10 times.
It's really simple, but it really gives you an understanding of your own body. If you can't control your own body, how will you control the bodies of somebody bearing down on top of you?
Oh yeah, i googled body fat percentage and I found a ton of sites to figure that out. I went to 7 sites and got the results and averaged them all out. My body fat percentage is 13%, pretty good?