{"id":4032,"date":"2020-06-23T18:42:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T23:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gridironstuds.com\/blog\/?p=4032"},"modified":"2020-06-23T18:42:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T23:42:14","slug":"recruiting-law-thou-shall-love-the-weightroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/recruiting-law-thou-shall-love-the-weightroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruiting Law: Thou Shall Love the Weightroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

If it looks like a football player and it looks like a football player that looks like a football player then it’s a football player. That’s not exactly how that saying goes in the rest of the World but it does hold some truth in the world of college football recruiting.\u00a0 Allow me to show you.<\/p>\n

The eyes are a powerful thing.\u00a0 Even before you can touch or smell something,\u00a0 the eyes are at work making 1,000’s of computations about a person,\u00a0 a place or a thing.\u00a0 It’s why most believe that the sense of sight is the most powerful sense of all.\u00a0 In that vain the first assessment a college football coach will make about you upon seeing you is whether or not,\u00a0 through his eyes,\u00a0 you look like a football player.\u00a0 You may have grown up on the old adage never judge a book by it’s cover,\u00a0 \u00a0nobody told a college football coach that.<\/p>\n

The major reason why this is so is because college football coaches and staffs have an overwhelming amount of confidence in their ability to teach you what you know.\u00a0 While this confidence should also extend to the abilities of the team’s strength and conditioning coach,\u00a0 \u00a0it is not the strength and conditioning coach that’s out on the recruiting trail.\u00a0 Quite frankly,\u00a0 no college coach really wants to make the guess nor wants to calculate the time it may take for you to get a college football ready body.\u00a0 Now,\u00a0 this doesn’t mean that they won’t take a chance on you if your muscle tone is not up to par but it’s far better to have the armor already on when the generals coming looking for soldiers.<\/p>\n

Adding muscle and getting stronger is one of the key attributes to your success on the football field and it’s also one of the attributes that you have great control over.\u00a0 You can’t make yourself taller than your genetic code calls for and acquiring speed can involve some tricky formulas.\u00a0 Getting stronger and adding muscle is a little more of a simple equation.\u00a0 Eat more + lift more = stronger \/ bigger.\u00a0 It doesn’t get more simple than that.\u00a0 There is also the added benefit that getting stronger can also aid you in getting faster if combined with the proper speed development program.\u00a0 Getting bigger and stronger also gives you more confidence out on the field which in turn just makes you a better overall football player.<\/p>\n

When a college coach sees you at camp or comes onto your campus to visit you in school or out at practice,\u00a0 a well put together body sends off an important signal.\u00a0 It is a big indication to that coach that you are a hard worker.\u00a0 If you’ve read my popular article You Thought You Loved Football Then They Gave You A Scholarship<\/a> then you have an idea of how much hard work must get put in as a college football player.\u00a0 Nothing says you may be up for the challenge more than a coach seeing you chiseled up in your polo during a school visit or busting out of your team issued practice jersey.\u00a0 It sends off the same signals white teeth give off when that chic you’ve been eyeballing smiles at you or the chiseled up teammate standing next to you.<\/p>\n

Many a college football prospect has gotten the eyes turned to him at a recruiting camp just by looking the part.\u00a0 Of course,\u00a0 you still need to be a player (for the most part) but when there are 300, 400, 500 guys at a camp,\u00a0 it’s nice to start the attention machine when you are at the check in table.<\/p>\n

So how are we going to get bigger and stronger?\u00a0 Here are 3 quick ways that I have observed having major success<\/p>\n

(1) Don’t Miss Workouts<\/p>\n

While you are striving for that scholarship offer,\u00a0 working out is life.\u00a0 You don’t skip a day of eating right?\u00a0 Well don’t skip a day of lifting. Make it your lifestyle.\u00a0 First of all,\u00a0 make it to all of your team’s scheduled workouts.\u00a0 If missing was unavoidable,\u00a0 don’t just call it a day off.\u00a0 Get the workout out in later and if that is not possible at school then give your best simulation at home.\u00a0 Pushups, situps, pull ups and lunges have built many a durable body.<\/p>\n

(2) Eat, Eat, Eat<\/p>\n

If you are getting regular meals at home because your mom or dad or grandma can throw down in the kitchen like a 5 star chef then cool. If your home situation is a little hectic then it is in your best interest to learn how to cook.\u00a0 Skipping meals is a surefire way to get nothing out of a workout.\u00a0 The muscles that you breakdown in the weightroom need to be built back up\u00a0 to grow with food.\u00a0 There is no excuse for not learning how to cook.\u00a0 There’s the Food Network on TV (where I learned how to cook) and that wonderful invention called YouTube.\u00a0 You don’t need to be a chef.\u00a0 You can learn to cook simple meals with the required protein, fats and carbohydrates to sustain your growth project.\u00a0 You can also learn how to create meals with a small budget if finances are an issue.\u00a0 Don’t let not knowing how to cook be an excuse.<\/p>\n

(3) Protein, Protein, Protein<\/p>\n

Your growing body needs this essential element.\u00a0 Muscle Milk is a great addition to your diet when you are a potential college football prospect.\u00a0 If not Muscle Milk then there are tons of other protein powders on the market.\u00a0 If you don’t have the money,\u00a0 find a way.\u00a0 Call one of those family members that will be sitting on the couch on draft day and tell them what you need.\u00a0 The best way to see results fast from your dedicated workout regimen is by adding protein shakes to your regular daily meals.<\/p>\n

College football is all about standing out in a crowd.\u00a0 Perhaps you are best with some other attributes that college coaches like but like I said getting bigger and stronger are definitely in your control.\u00a0 When that coach comes to meet you and starts the college scout pat down on your arms and shoulders,\u00a0 make sure he’s feeling something screams D1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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