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I'd hate to see his knee snap lifting so.e totally uneccesary weight. I'm sure I will get called a wimp, but I played D1 athletics and I wasn't worth a cent. I'd put Barkley in bubble wrap until the big ten season.
Competitors compete all the time.
He's got the best trainers available. He'll be fine.
Maybe if you had tried to do 405lb power cleans, your D1 career would have been worth a cent or more... LOL JK, anyone who was able to play D1 anything has achieved a lot.
Next - 409 - and he's ready for the season....
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That would keep me out of trouble on Saturday nights...
He may, but that said all that weight one thing out of line he's done for 10 weeks min. Risk v reward. I know they need to compete but we are trading football players not power lifters People forget that
It doesn't mean lifting is any more risky for him than anybody else. He is just lifting huge weights because he is freakishly strong.
Absolutely no worries. And whatever he's doing in the weight room now will absolutely translate into making him a better football player.
As a former Oly Lifting Coach who trained athletes, I'd drop the weight a bit and teach him better form. Not to get him to lift more weight but to do it more safely. Barkley has impressive strength and neurological wiring that allows him to lift such weights, a temporary drop in weight and focus on form and he'd be popping that 405 and more. Again not to make him an Olympic Lifter, just to do it with less risk of injury.
An interesting aside... Years ago I was at a Strength and Conditioning Conference and heard the Minnesota Vikings Strength Coach discuss some of the programs he had his players undergo. Not much different from what I would have a middle-aged woman in reasonable shape do- though with more weight. When I questioned him he said, "I train the genetically elite. My job is to keep them from getting fat and keep them healthy. Adding another 10 pounds on their bench, or 20 pounds on their squat or clean, won't get me a raise. It's not likely I'm going to make them any faster than they already are. But if I injure Robert Smith or Randy Moss, I'll get fired."
Most D1 college players aren't at the Smith or Moss level and may still have room to physically improve,but tsome can be close.
