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Upperbody or Lowerbody for football?

Freethrow03 Posts: 32 Joined: 2004/06/12	2004/08/30, 01:06 PM I'm a freshman in highschool and i'm on the football team. I play tailback and i was wondering if there were any muscles that i should concentrate on more than others. Do i need a stronger upperbody than lowerbody? or the other way around.
jonathanweaver Posts: 576 Joined: 2004/06/14	2004/08/30, 01:29 PM Congrats on the football team. My older son won't even try the chess club, let alone sports. I'm not a football player, and I don't even know which position the tailback is, but I would think that squats and lunges would be a must for any football player. However, what I've learned on this board is that you must work all parts of the body. If you focus on just one part, the body may not respond as well as a total body increase. -------------- I will never grow up, just old. Jonathan \"the weaver\" Beaver (created by the craty names people here have called me)
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2004/08/30, 01:32 PM Speed is what you need in football, fact is,people can't hit that they can't catch. Leg strength would be what I would be really concerned with, yourun, have to jump, and you drive threw the line with you legs. So i'd run,do plyometrics, squats, front squats, thrusters lunges, gkut ham, stiff legged dls, deadlifts. Ll will help you build good leg strength, as well as get a good core work out w/ the squats, front squats and deadlifts. Also work on your core, abbs and lower back, that will help you too. Upper body shouldn't be neglicted though, but keep with the basics, militaries, inclines, flat benching. Good heavy tricep work. And power cleans will help you on full over body strength. -------------- if you kick a tiger in the @$$ , you then have to descide what to do with the teath end. any guy can hold a girl by the hand, but only the select few can hold her by her feet!
Freethrow03 Posts: 32 Joined: 2004/06/12	2004/08/30, 11:11 PM thanks bigandrew, during football season i've only been workin my upperbody 3 days a week. my legs are just so shot after conditioning. should i go ahead and do light weight wiht my legs or is that overworking them?
windsurfer326 Posts: 49 Joined: 2004/09/02	2004/09/02, 11:52 PM It's important for both upper and lower body... ============ Quoting from freethrow03: I'm a freshman in highschool and i'm on the football team. I play tailback and i was wondering if there were any muscles that i should concentrate on more than others. Do i need a stronger upperbody than lowerbody? or the other way around. =============
firemansam Posts: 147 Joined: 2004/08/20	2004/09/03, 08:51 AM like everybody has said upper and lower is important, bigandrew has it right speed is the key especially for tailback and core strength abs and lower back is really important as this is where you absorb most of the hits your gonna take and you can really mess up your back good luck with your season
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2004/09/03, 12:51 PM You can overtrain your upper just as easy, if not easier than the lower. Lower has the biggest and most compound muscles, wouldn't hurt after conditioning do some squats lunges and hamstring work. I mean think about it......say you can run a 4.5 after conditioning, and a leg work out..............imagin what you can do at 100% on game day with all that adrelinine going threw you. I work out alot, and somtimes i'll do shoulder before practice, and if you ever see guy cheerleders, then you know, its a military press over and over agin, or a power clean. IF I can toss the girl high, sore and feeling like crap, then I know with out a shadow of a doubt i can hit it at 100% in fron t of a crowd. -------------- if you kick a tiger in the @$$ , you then have to descide what to do with the teath end. any guy can hold a girl by the hand, but only the select few can hold her by her feet!
Freethrow03 Posts: 32 Joined: 2004/06/12	2004/09/06, 11:33 PM thanks for all of your help