College Football Recruiting Made Simple

I wont go into a whole lot of detail because you can look at my past blog entries that discuss nutrition in great detail. However it has come to my attention today during my workout with my high school football team that breakfast is an issue. Some guys are over sleeping, too lazy to cook or wake up earlier or just flat out skipping breakfast. One player told me that it is impossible to eat before you lift. I personally eat every 2 hours, and I train 4 times a week you do the math???? Exactly I don’t care if I just ate I get my workout done with proper fuel - energy for my workouts.

Breakfast

First meal of the day, obvious enough right…WRONG…Many people wake up and think they can do weight training on e…when you do this you are essentially starving yourself and you will usually feel weaker than usual and constantly naucious and ready to quit or tap out of your workout. The only time you shouldn’t eat breakfast 1st thing in the morning is during a morning cardio session…You need the calories to fuel your weight training though, trust me. Your body will thank you for it.

Another issue I have been noticing is water or lack of it. Some players aren’t used to drinking a lot of water so it makes it hard to drink water and go back to a workout. Truthfully with time your body will get used to it. Just be patient because I am definitely not telling you to go start drinking 2 gallons of water a day…It is gradual you have to build up too it. Don’t rush because there is a such thing as water intoxication or drinking to much water. But you guys probably won’t run into that problem with all the sweat and water you will lose during your summer workouts.

Coaching

The last thing I want to say is make sure you are pushing yourself. I have seen guys that have a workout that says do as many as you can until failure and they bang out 8 and before they attempt to fail they stop their set because they are satisfied. I can’t say it in my weight room but this is my blog and that is flat out BullShit…I ask these players constantly “do you want to be good or do you want to be great?” That is a question that they need to ask themselves when they are quiting on a workout because their legs burn or they got a blister from the bar. Grow up…This is Football not hackey sack!!!!!! As you can see my level of anger and trust me you didn’t want to be in their with me today. And granted this isn’t even my workout which is 50x s harder…”The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”

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