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Article: Video: OL commit Dykstra shows off athleticism
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Thats a teenager youre talking about...sick mf
If he was in his 20's you would approve?
Kid has a ready made body to compete immediately. He carries his 290 to 300 pounds well and should be able to put on positive weight unlike most big kids who need to drop 20 to 40 pounds and significantly reduce body fat.
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Ol not so much skill positions I agree
has the crank of 28 year old, so i get a pass
"jjacks23" with that name, course he does
Looks like an easy way to hurt yourself.
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Dykstra is going to lead the squad in off season Pilates's workouts.
The movement shows one has to have excellent core strength of the lower back and abdominal to execute the movement. It also looks like he is quite "lean" for 290-300 lbs and our S&C staff has a good starting point to worth with him.
Speaking from my own personal experience. I rarely saw any improvements in my squats doing power squats where you just break parallel. I remember a friend convincing me to do olympic style squats where you go down as far as possible (which helps improve flexibility). I remember my max at the time was 255 on squats in August. Six months later I got up to 315 (these were at 5 reps btw).
That's troubling that some of these kids came in barely able to squat their own body weight. But that's more of an indictment on HS S&C if anything.
Linder's feeble lack of strength was exploited badly in the ND game. That DT tossed him around like a gimpy premature baby.
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Good lord that's impressive. I'm officially high on this kid. Get this kid a red-shirt and have him live in the weight room. I'm good.
Very short sighted post. A lot of the offensive lineman that are worth a **** come out of the Midwest. You heard Chise say it, it's a culture to workout over there. You need your linemen strong more than anything. For linemen, your power comes through your legs which is why you see such a large emphasis on squats and power cleans . Also, they're not tested regularly against speed that exists in South Florida; it's something you have to adapt to. I remember our offensive linemen with Swasey just being big and fat - those weight room numbers that were posted was troubling.
Spot on.
One could argue how effective those exercises are towards becoming a stud college OLman, but this would be missing
the point, the bigger picture, which is this kid is putting in a considerable amount of work to be the best he
can be, which is a huge factor in being an excellent OLman.
And this sort of thing is contagious....you want kids on team who spend more time in the gym and classroom then
in their dorm or car smoking marijuana.
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Does all that..and was getting blown by at paradise camp. You got to be blessed to play ball I could care less bout this crossfire sh-t.
Becareful the slurpers might lose it on you than take out their agesssing by challenging you to a spelling bee
No one's slurping. And those paradise drills always favor defensive linemen. You're the one coming out here implying that S&C has no effect on how good an offensive lineman will be - I say otherwise. No one has said Dykstra's coming in day 1 and going to be a starter; it's quite the opposite. Kid probably won't see the field until he's a RS Sophmore, but I'm good with that considering every program has kids like this that are developed long term and are at a school for 5 years (including their RS year).
