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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
I already discussed my experience at length earlier in this thread. My high school was a football factory until the head coach left for Rockhurst. The number of college football players produced during his run was pretty awesome.
Now, most of that was due to training. Kids as young as 7th grade participated in the high school weight training, running and other drills every summer. The number of guys that were in the 1,000 pound club (bench, squat and dead lift) was pretty staggering. It was a way of life.
I'm actually surprised to hear that 4.7 is a benchmark because I figured that most of the four and five star Blue-Chip high school skill players easily ran 4.7 or better.
So much of running a 40 is technique, which is why we're seeing guys running sub-4.5's these days.
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Exactly. We had a mandatory summer weights program from my freshman year on. I didn't play my senior year because I just didn't feel like !@#$ing with the weights anymore...oh, and the not being very good thing.
Major schools in the KC area did not !@#$ around when it came to training. I did the minimum I had to do to get a my sticker punched before I had to go to work (insurance at $200/mo was a mother****er), but there were a bunch of kids there that were just killing it every day.
I dunno if it's a small school thing or what, but I think some people are really underestimating how hard HS football coaches will push their kids on the training stuff. Looking back on it, I regret not working harder because I can see in some of my pictures from back then that I really was in good shape, but you just don't realize how easily that happens for a 17/18 yr old kid.
Athletic stuff just comes easy at that age.