Stiffness and recovery allowing 🙏

For most teams I’ve been on there’s really no actual punishment. Some teams will have you doing extra fitness after training to get you caught up, but It’s really more about optics. You don’t want to be the player that fails it and have your coach thinking you’ve been slacking off all offseason.

The RICE method is a pretty outdated method for dealing with injuries. Even the creator of it has now stated it’s not a great method anymore. RICE is really only used immediately after sustaining the injury to reduce inflammation, but what most trainers are seeing now is that some inflammation is good. It’s the body’s way of dealing with damaged ligaments, muscles, etc. What you want to do is ice and compress if there is excess swelling for the first 48 hours or so. But after that period it’s all about strengthening up the ankle and mobilizing it through specific ankle rehab exercises. If you don’t do that then your ankles just get weaker and stiffer over time which leads to more frequent and worse ankle sprains. Go see a physical therapist or at the very least watch some KZbin videos from licensed physical therapists about ankle rehab exercises you can do.

@ Legend! Thank you for taking the time to respond… I didn’t know that about RICE. Makes sense though as I always thought there must be some benefit of the body sending white blood cells to the area of injury… I’m waiting for my new insurance to kick in so till then I’ll look up some licensed PT vids. Thanks again! 🙌

@@nobletstrength Yep, I talked about it a few episodes back, but unfortunately, my gym has a strict no filming policy, so I haven’t been able to show much of it. But I’m doing plyometrics, heavy lifts like trap bar deadlifts, squats, bench press, rows, etc as well as sled pushes and stuff like that. I’ve been working out like that about 2-3x a week

​@@BecomeElite Makes sense. Filming is not always a given when it comes to training. A lot of people don't seem to understand that. lol But ya, that seems about right for this point in the off-season.

Dude. Since when is football about mass? All professional athletes are very lean. The only muscle they have is that on their legs. Tell me a few players who have biceps? Aguero?? Nope. Mbappe? Nope. Halland? Nope! Kdb? Nope! Are you serious about mass? How's this even a question??? Those athletes just eat healthy. And eat fuel their bodies appropriately. They don't maintain anything. Nor care about your little mass weight. It's irrelevant

@smp5343 well if you read my comment you’d see that in my experience being lean has been advantageous for me… But if you watch his video he talks about trying to gain weight. He’s the pro here so I’m asking for his insight.. Also when I said mass I didn’t say upper body… Adding mass can be lower body too… And if you haven’t seen Adama Traore on the ball, you’d might realize they’re not all built the same…

It’s all about personal preference. I’m 6’0” tall and I’ve found I feel the best with my playstyle around 170-175 lbs. it’s the best combination of being light, fit, strong, and solid. There are 6’0” pros that prefer to be 10-20 lbs lighter than me and like to sit around 150-160 lbs. With their play style, they like to feel as light as possible and sacrifice some strength. There are other pros I know at 6’0” that like to be close to 180-190 lbs. They prefer to play more physical and will sacrifice feeling lighter on their feet in order to feel stronger and more powerful. It’s all preference. That’s why pros at the highest level come in all shapes and sizes. You have players like Lamine Yamal and Adams Traore. My recommendation is to experiment with your weight until you find where you feel the most comfortable and where you feel like you perform the best. That might be at 158 or it might be 175, but you won’t know until you get there and test it out.

@ Thanks for the response Matt! So good hearing your insights, that totally makes sense…. When I was at 170 (I’m 5’10) I was a little flabby/out of shape. My plan is to continue cutting to 155 maybe even 150, get super lean, then see if I can add lean mass to come back up a little so that the mass I’m adding is functional in creating strength and power…

I love the ability to control the speed perfectly on the treadmill. It makes it easier for me to progress and get fitter. Just my personal preference.

What helped me is: Sit on the Floor an have both your legs in front of you. Now put one leg in top of the other with a 90 degree angle. Now if you reach forward your knee can’t go up and you feel a deep stretch in your hamstring. What helped me is don’t try to reach your toes. You should try to reach your legs with your upper body. After every ten seconds go deeper till you reach one minute. You’ll see a big diffrrnce in before and after. Now you do this every day

@ thank you so much 🙏