Quote Originally Posted by guns01 View Post
i dont have any first hand knowledge of how it works at the college or pro level but one of the kids that graduated behind me about 4-5 years. well this kid was about 6ft something and well under 200 as a senior going into college. by end of his freshman year he was a tight end in the 260s and his neck was bigger than my waist. he actually turned pro and was a top tier nfl tight end until he retired. now i am pretty good with training and nutrition and he went to a div 1 school and i know their stuff is top of the line but i find it hard to believe that he did that naturally just with the weight room and food program at the school. i mean after a year he didnt even look like the same person.
I know what you mean as I have a friend who played QB in high school and got a scholarship to a major D1 school. Left high school at around 210-215 at 6’4”. He redshirted his freshman year and they switched him to defensive end and he went from 215 to almost 260 in his freshman year! I wouldn’t have ever believed it, if it wasn’t for the fact that he was a friend whom I saw quite a bit. I remember when he walked into the gym he went to high school at(we were playing summer league basketball) and I was in awe! Not only was he fuckin huge but he was so unbelievably strong and nimble. He ended up getting to 267lbs in less than a year and a half. They(university he played for) were sponsored by Met-rx at the time and he said every position had specific amounts of protein and weight gainers they had to finish each week. He said he would get 1-2 5lb containers of protein powder and 2-3 5lb containers of weight gainer per week to consume. There strength and conditioning coach is legendary in the college football coaching world. He said that you never brought a unfinished container back lol