Football Weight Training Routines

Football is one of the most popular sports today that is popular among persons of different ages in different countries.  Football has one of the most difficult trainings due to the competitiveness of the sport.  The sports require a variation of trainings that are geared to build your endurance and your strength and one of that is the football weight training.  One of the types of weight training in football is weight lifting workout. Here are some of the weight lifting workout routines for football.

·         The Pyramid training – pyramid training is conducted on fifteen repetitions of exercise holding a weight that is around sixty percent of your load capacity.  You start at a higher number of repetitions and continue to lower it down as you go to the next set which could be 10 repetitions using eighty percent of your weight capacity and then followed by 5 repetitions using 100 percent of your maximum load capacity. 

·         Half squat with weights – To begin this exercise, you need to start with your feet apart and your back straight.  Then clutch on your hand the dumbbell and then position it on top of your leg.  Then you have to start to bend your knees like when you are setting into a chair.  You have to make sure that you keep your knees behind your toes so as not to avoid any injury.  To start off the half squat with weights, you can try a five-pound dumbbell and then you can increase it later on.

·         Bench press routine – The bench press routine is another football weight training that is particularly needed to help you strengthen your arms and your bulk.  The bench press for football training is almost similar to the regular bench press that is done in ordinary weight training.

·         Dead Lifts – A dead lift is performed in this manner.  First, you need to start with your feet and position it a shoulder apart.  Then you need to hold a bar that is of equal weight and when you begin to do this, make sure that your body is in relaxed position.  Then start to bend your body forward from the waist and then bend on your knees.  Then continue to bend until you reach the position where the weights touch the floor but not really resting the bar to the floor.  Then start to gradually stand straight again and try to repeat the pyramid technique. 

·         Running with weights – Then you can try running while holding weights on each hand.  You can first try a five-pound weight and then alternately swing the weights on each hand by punching it forward and then punching the weights above your head.  Then you can try to increase the weight when your feel that the process becomes easier for you. 

These are but some of the exercises and routines that you can do in a football weight training exercise.  It is just important to take note that you can do a lot more of innovations in the routines that you think would better enhance your strength and your endurance. It would also be advisable to incorporate the basic principles in weight training which include rest.  In between the weight trainings, you can take a rest and then start another routine with a progression in your ordinary routine.