Motorbreath;3780919 said:
Thanks for the info. To be honest with you I think I have a lot of leg muscle. On one of the machines I can do multiple sets of 10 at 120 lbs and the machine only goes up to 140 lbs. IMO that's pretty good. As for my arms I can do about an average of 60 lbs per upper body machine. In one I can do 90 lbs.
I was wondering if something like the Shake Weight could do something good.
1. you play football, you never have enough leg muscle
2. you play on the line, YOU NEVER HAVE ENOUGH LEG MUSCLE!
most of the advice here has been valid, though i will add that 3 days of working out isn't enough IMO at your age. you have an opportunity to really increase your strength at a rate right now that 30-40 year olds could only dream of and your body will recover fast enough to support the extra workouts, especially with the right training, diet, and supplements.
don't just focus on getting stronger and neglect becoming more agile, be sure to still do cardio/quickness and agility training at least once a week.
on the side advice*
1.i recommend free weights over machines because they force you to use all those little stabilizer muscles that machines don't get.
2.learn proper lifting techniques, don't listen to your friends, they don't know either.
3. get a subscription to muscle and fitness(i prefer it because it has good workouts/advice/charts and less ads) try some things suggested in it including training splits, then join bodybuilding.com and go to the teen section in their forum and you will find all kinds of stuff for football training.
4. don't take steroids
5. DO NOT TAKE ANY PRO-HORMONES/PRO-STEROIDS. you will see your friends take these, they will get strong, you will want to take them, they are available over the counter and you will think they are OK. THEY ARE NOT. they are more harmful and less effective than actual steroids and they require proper dosing and extensive PCT(post cycle therapy) and you don't have access to the ideal PCT and neither do your friends.
just so you know i am five years removed from high school, i played Texas 5A football at 145-50 pounds, i know the pressures of football and the weight room and it was only my conviction in being clean that i did not give in to these pressures. good diet, good training program, whey protein shakes- these are your bread and butter, all the supplements in the world mean nothing if your diet isn't right and you aren't training hard enough. if you aren't sore the next day, you didn't train hard enough.
one more thing, it is my opinion that creatine is all right, we have 20 years of at least anecdotal evidence of its effectiveness and safety, but i would not take it until you have plateaued for at least a month, which should not happen for a 15 year old. if it does i recommend an examination of your diet and training routine before going that route.
