Football Training to Build Athletic Linemen
Playing football requires a great amount of skill, but being a great football player requires much more, athleticism. A great football player, no matter what position he plays, must have speed, agility, power, and strength. For many players, it takes aggressive training to attain the superior levels of athleticism to compete at high school and college levels. That means finding new ways to train muscles to fire and explode at the appropriates times on the field to make those key plays both offensively and defensively.
We are constantly searching and researching for ways to help our sons improve their level of athleticism on the football field. Most importantly, because they are still young, we have to find methods that are safe for their bodies so that they can receive all the benefits without any of the negative consequences of overworking their muscles or burning their desire to strive to get better.
Our oldest son is our offensive lineman. Over the years, he has played as a lineman either offensively or defensively with some very talented boys. Unfortunately, the “big boys” of the team have a stigma attached to the term “lineman.” And, that is that they are unhealthy, overweight, slow-moving players. We decided that we did not want our son to view himself in that manner, so we have worked very hard to teach him the difference between unhealthy and healthy. It is possible to be a “big lineman” who is very healthy, very fast, agile, and full of power and strength. This is accomplished through some very aggressive workouts that he chooses to do in order to be the best player he can be.
We change his workouts every so often so that his muscles are consistently being challenged and to prevent boredom. We found this video and have used in a modified way many of the exercises that are demonstrated. Our son has found them to be very effective and enjoys the opportunity to challenge his body to try new strength moves. He found that his abdominal muscles were very sore the first few days that he began these exercises. His abdominal muscles are probably the weakest muscle group on his body right now because he likes to focus on his arms and legs. It’s not always easy to convince a young player that his core is an important area, if not the most important, to maintain.
So, for that we will continue our search for the most effective abdominal exercises and keep building strength, agility, power, and speed.
