Why some posters feel the need to lie on an internet message board is beyond me. You don't need to impress anybody Roger - we'll all like you anyways.....
There are only two people who ran faster than a 4.32 at the combine this year: Tye Hill Clemson 4.30 Johnathan Joseph S. Carolina 4.31 I'd be willing to bet that there are fewer than 1000 in the world who have that kind of speed: pretty much all of them being college and professional football players and world class sprinters. To be that fast you not only have to be a physical freak but also need to train constantly to further develop your fast twitch muscle fibers. There are 6 billion people in the world so if 600 people can run that fast that makes you a one in ten million case. congratulations. 2 questions: -what happened to your athletic career? clearly you were a dominant WR at the high school and college level. Why no NFL? Or maybe you were undersized or couldn't catch. If so you must have set all kinds of school and state records in the 100m. I'd be curious to hear about it. -who timed you in the 40? Of course your time was the average of three professional timers under approved conditions, right? and not a friend with a stopwatch. Sorry to be skeptical. I just find it a little hard to believe that half the people who posted in this thread can run a sub 4.6 40. Every high school football player in the country (OL aside) has been timed by a friend after practice at that speed. I know plenty of them. If you ever timed them under official conditions like at the combine, they're always going to be .3 or .4 slower. There were about 5 kids on my high school football time (graduating class: 45)who thought they had one in a million speed. Add a few tenths of a second to their claimed times and you arrive at the truth: they were pretty good athletes at the small high school or div 3 college level but no more.
I am pretty sure Joejets1 and Biggundewayne63 would win the 225 bench. We can both do it around 4-6 times
Maybe things are different now, I don't know, but when I was a HS senior, all the linemen and most of the LB's and RB's lifted 175 in sets of ten. Not everyone could do three sets, but that was the coach's program. Most of us would try lifting more, but not in sets of ten, it was bargging rights for who could lift the most, once. I think I got up to 245 or so. That was on a universal, which is much easier than free weights are. I was 5'9", 193, 32 " waist. Are players smaller than that these days? I thought they would be bigger, and stronger by now. And no, I could not sniff 175 these days.... I wouldn't even try.
Most people who work out a decent amount can throw up 175 for 3 sets of 10... But most people's reps drop significantly as soon as they pass about 210... Personally, I've been training trying to make the team at the college I am going to next year (D I AA) So I've been working on my 225 reps... Most people work with intermediate weight around 175 though so your high school team just seems like a bunch of regular lifters to me.. Not too serious, but serious enough not to be puny..
I've said it once and I'll say it again, there are some lying mother fuckers on this board. Softball players in Queens running 4.39 40's???????? You may as well have told me you invented google.com...
I graduated two years ago, so I havn't done much of it since then. I'm 5'10" and back then i wieghed about 240, I was built like a tank. For those Ivy league guys, going IVY league doesn't mean shit. I didnt open a single text book during High School and was accepted to both Dartmouth and Williams, however still paying $30,000 a year did not look that appetizing for undergrad work, so I went to a state school on a full scholarship (not hard to do I know). Ivy League isn't difficult if Daddy or Mommy can make a big donation to the school. Anyway, I've taken a wonderlink test in psychology this year and I scored a 44. My senior year I ran a 4.8 40, benched 225 18 times, had a 32 inch verticle leap, my short shuttle was in the mid 7's, and I dont remember my standing long jump, my 3 cone, or my long shuttle. Now I probably couldn't touch those numbers, however, if I trained for a few months like the guys who get invited to the combine do, I could beat them all (my own numbers that is) as I am physically in better shape then I've been in a long time.
Yeah I played until 11th grade, I moved to and my new school didn't have football. This year I'm playing for a semipro team (unpaid).
