It can be even more difficult when a player is trying to bulk up to a feasible playing weight for a lineman, whether that happens gradually or as the result of a position change.
Several linemen at the NFL Scouting Combine started out their high school or college careers as tight ends, and needed to add weight quickly to make the transition to the line. On Wednesday, Acme Packing Company caught up with a number of linemen to find out what kinds of food they like, how they cheat on their clean eating habits, and the crazy things they have done to put weight on over the years. Here are a handful of the responses. His size led to a funny back-and-forth with reporters about the NFL Draft , as the event in Las Vegas will involve players being taken out to the stage by boat after their selections.
But even better was when he responded to a question about if he would be nervous about falling out of the boat. You have your starch and your greens. Jones, a movie buff who goes to the theater as often as he can , admitted to sneaking some snacks when he hits the concession stand before showtime.
He gets popcorn, but sheepishly revealed that he does also drink an occasional Icee. Gotta get your proteins in, gotta get your vegetables in. Big thing for me is cutting out the candy, cutting out the snacks, eating too late. Also staying in the weight room, building on that muscle mass. I want the crawfish, crab legs, shrimp. If you were face-to-face with an offensive lineman from any given football team, it's likely they'd be standing at around 6-foot-4, pounds.
The reality is, these giants train and diet just as hard as any of the other athletes on the field. Every ounce of stamina they can muster is needed to stay on the field for every offensive play and hold down pound men trying to sprint right through their human wall.
If you aspire to one day be part of the human shields that protect quarterbacks like Tom Brady, or Peyton Manning, it's not enough to just be a big, pound dude -- you still have to be strong and athletic. Taylor Lewan, offensive lineman for the the Tennessee Titans is 6-foot-8, pounds, and told the NFL Network his diet is vital to his success as he tries to stay in shape and break the stigma of linemen just being "big fat guys. Proud of you bud not the Instagram thing but for life!
Give him a follow ladies and gentlemen! Lewan showed a glimpse of his diet, saying he was big on carbohydrates and lean protein. That means a typical meal for him consisted of chicken, or fish, with a cup of rice and two cups of veggies. Lewan said he would eat about grams of carbs a day, which is the equivalent of about seven Krispy Kreme donuts, granted his carbs probably have more nutritional value than seven donuts. While some athletes really try to eliminate carbs, the Titans' lineman said he used the macronutrient as energy to fuel him through his three-hour-a-day workouts.
Christopher Mohr, a sports nutritionist out of the University of Massachusetts, said in a Bodybuiling. If you're a shrimpy pound lineman and need to bulk up a bit, Mohr said the key is to slowly increase your calories to the point where you're eating an additional more than usual.
At the same time, many of them also are unable to spend a lot on groceries from week to week. Some may ask how athletes manage to find properly cooked meals that satisfy the demands of their nutritional programs without taking up too much time.
The answer: dining halls. Sign up for our newsletter Get our newsletter, Dear Penn , delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. Time and cost constraints make it even more challenging for athletes. But when the Quakers eventually do take the field, fans can expect that their athletes, especially the offensive line, have done their part in the kitchen so that they can also do their part on the field come game day. Dear Penn Stay plugged into Penn with this daily newsletter rounding up all of the top headlines from top headlines from the DP, 34th Street, and Under the Button.
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