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    AFL strength training

    Will help AFL players. Won't help 15-17 year olds at the expense of doing less skills work and fitness. No and nor would lifting weights have assisted with preventing the injuries. The 'benefits' of weightlifting in preventing injury are highly overrated (and unsurprisingly, over quoted in...
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    AFL strength training

    You're really obsessing over the rowing machine line aren't you? Since you were drafted to a professional team and all, please, tell us how your professional team trains. Again, since you were successful in becoming drafted, how did your weight lifting program assist with that. Did you find...
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    AFL strength training

    Skills and drills. Jump tests, beep tests and a range of other testing. But the main focus is skills and drills with a few friendly games thrown in. To think that doing weights would have somehow added an extra dimension to your abilities to go on and get drafted is a bit naive, but a common...
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    AFL strength training

    Aspiring afl footy players. Aspiring. Not already in the AFL. Before you get in to the AFL, you need to be drafted. So. It's about getting in to the AFL, by being drafted. Most kids wanting to know how to get drafted in the AFL are about 15. If you're asking the question at 17, you're...
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    AFL strength training

    *facepalm* You don't fucking read do you? This is about kids 15-16 years old and how to get drafted. Not about how to be a pro AFL player, because, if you're asking that question here. You're not a pro AFL player, you've got a dietitian, trainer and coach who will outline everything for you...
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    AFL strength training

    Personal Trainers know how to do squats and deadlifts, but don't know how that works. Academics know how the body works, but don't need to know how to do squats or deadlifts. People working in the highly competitive, highly paid, world of professional sports teams, know both and know both...
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    AFL strength training

    I was drafted by Collingwood in '04. Released a year later due to ongoing shoulder and knee issues. Never got a game of AFL footy, and from draft to being released I barely played a game at all. Oh and I never said exercise bike, a kid should be out there riding a bike with friends. Not in a gym...
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    AFL strength training

    Yet, you don't play professionally, nor are you playing high school grade football. Shit leagues are generally a lot more strength based, because players are generally worse at the skills required so they make up for it in being rough as hell.
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    Is Golf a sport?

    Weak argument. Yes, you can say the same about chess. It is also a sport. Basically, you seem to have listed 'sports that require something other than strength as their main core are not sports.' Seriously, swimming is not a sport now? Tennis is not a sport? Hah. Ok.
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    AFL strength training

    Clearly not that good at reading. You think a kid is going to want to run around an oval to increase his fitness and only that? Good luck that with buddy. He will do it for a bit, get bored, then go do shit with his friends. Speed and strength are important. Upper body strength is very...
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    AFL strength training

    Skill and fitness should take priority. There is no incentive to spend less time kicking and more time doing deadlifts because ultimately, you're a kid. You have friends, you have school, you have shitty assignments and homework to do. You will also likely have giant blue balls and you will want...
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    AFL strength training

    You guys are the most pedantic folk I've ever run in to (hurr hurr, nobody deadlifts 500kg). My point remains valid, even if I didn't bother listing every position on the field. The game has changed a lot and the bigger guys are no longer wanted on teams. The kids that get drafted early are...
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    AFL strength training

    Last I checked, the guys playing in the games this afternoon won't be 15 years old. But that style of forward is gone. Forwards are required to run a lot more than they once did. There are a few teams with a big guy in the forward 50 who does not run much, but, they are rare and they have to...
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    AFL strength training

    The World's Highest-Paid Athletes - Forbes Forbes disagrees. The better question is, would I even ask you how much you squat? Nope. edit: Feel free to think that lifting weights will increase your chance of getting drafted. Instead of spending that time getting fit. AFL Scouts don't care...
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    AFL strength training

    Well, we're talking about a kid wanting to get in to the AFL here. So, again, being able to deadlift 500kg won't improve your chances of being drafted. Being able to run, have no history of injuries and being able to play AFL will help you get drafted. Lifting weights isn't a key part of any...
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    AFL strength training

    Injury prevention is number 1 in professional sports. They count the amount of times players kick, tackle, get tackled, fall over, trip etc. during games, training and in the gym. Each of these is assigned a number, when a player gets over a certain number, their training program changes and...
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    AFL strength training

    And most powerlifters don't know how to curve a corner kick. Hell, watching anyone who has never played AFL try bouncing the ball is hilarious. Different skill set. I'm not sure what the ability to deadlift would do to help improve a professional soccer players ability to play.
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    AFL strength training

    Ah. My mistake, I thought you were asking for yourself. I still stand by doing swimming before and/or after school (especially during summer). It keeps fitness up and builds a level of mental toughness. As the season gets closer, start including some running with some hill sprints thrown in...
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    AFL strength training

    Rowing machine, running, swimming, bike riding. Your ability to run, stay fit and be able to read the game will get you drafted. Not the amount you can bench press. They can make you drink milk and lift iron, but they can't/don't want to teach you how to read the game. edit: I'm guessing...
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    Fractured Clavicle (with pics)

    Yessir!
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