Looking for Off-Season Training Program - Offensive Line

KeersLT75,

In the offseason, we expect our lineman to eat well (to get bigger), lift according to our lifting program (to turn the size into muscle mass), run stadiums (for cardio strength and overall endurance), and either wrestle or throw shot/discus on the track team (helps keeps the grades up). Make sure you improve your line fundamentals (10 yard dash time, vertical leap, standing long jump, and shuttle time). We encourage all of our players to attend at least one full contact camp for their position (if there are financial issues we try and fundraise for them-check with your coach on equipment availability). This combined with film, regular football PE, and spring and summer workouts help the learning curve. Most of all, examine yourself. If you are objective and honest with yourself, you will probably pinpoint what areas you need improvement in better than anyone else.

Most importantly.....Learn to lead by example. Show the underclassmen coming in and up how it should be done. Leaders are not always made up of returning starters. The combination of positive attitude, humility, and hard nosed work ethic are hard to find these days. Football is your life now, but it may not be forever. If you learn these traits to play football and carry them through to your adult life, you will have much more success than if you didn't.

Good Luck. I wish more young men would commit to 'getting better'.

Coach G