<p>ok if you haven’t ever benched or squatted before this is probably a horrible idea to be honest, i can’t imagine you being able to do more than 100 pounds on bench or 135 on squat… </p>
<p>and that’s assuming you are very active in gymnastics and other activities </p>
<p>@playpus I just texted my friend (on the team) and he’s willing to personally train me. He said it’s not that hard to get into the team and he said that one of the guys on it can only lift 80! </p>
<p>At 5’2" and 95, you must be joking. I was on the verge of being too small to play effectively, and I was 5’10" 160 (and ran track).</p>
<p>@ThereAreLlamas there’s a guy on the team who’s 5’4 and 110! </p>
<p>Well, that physique is perfect for xc (and you need to worry about your OPPONENTS, not your own team. For all you know, they could look like [Bakersfield’s</a> roster](<a href=“http://www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/bakersfield-drillers-(bakersfield,ca)/football/roster.htm]Bakersfield’s”>Roster - Bakersfield Drillers (Bakersfield, CA) Varsity Football 23-24)).</p>
<p>Girl, you are tiny. If I was your parent I wouldn’t let you play football. And yes, I do know of boys who have joined cheerleading in high school - both school teams and traveling performance teams. It seems to me they did it because they enjoyed gymnastics, dance, and performance - not as some kind of social experiment. </p>
<p>wow i can’t believe he can only lift 80 pounds…
I bench 270 squat close to 400 run just under 5 sec on my 40 and I don’t start
If a kid only benched 80 pounds he would probably quit because he would get destroyed constantly </p>
<p>If so, he probably gets flattened 10 times a days in practice, unless he’s a punter or a kicker. There are also these things - called skills - that come into play. Would you go out for, say, tennis if you’d never played it before you were 17 years old and expect to do anything other than be amusingly inept? A guy who weighs 280 can be at least vaguely useful as an offensive lineman even if he doesn’t quite know what he’s doing. A guy who weighs 160 is usually pretty hapless unless he has several years of playing behind him. You don’t magically just wake up knowing how to play cornerback.</p>
<p>It hurts to get flattened. Even at a normal size, the experience of running into someone who weighs over 200 and is moving at some speed is quite an eye-opener. </p>
<p>One additional thing - really just emphasizing what other people have said - it’s a team sport that calls for a lot of commitment to the team. There’s a great deal of physical effort required. Anybody who played high school football probably still gets a little queasy just hearing the phrase “two a days.” Real players are expected to push blocking sleds (even if they’re defensive backs), run wind sprints, do time in the weight room, etc. If you’re “that guy” - the one who doesn’t keep his end of the sled moving, is always last across the line in wind sprints, slacks off of weights, etc. - you quickly become persona non grata.</p>
<p>In practice, the guys you’re going against - in tackling drills, or scrimmages or whatever - are mostly trying really hard to impress the coaches by how well they’re doing. If you’re a linebacker and you’ve got a limited number of opportunities to demonstrate to the coaches what a crisp and savage tackler you are, you’re not going to be super happy if several of those opportunities are taken away because you’re supposed to be “nice” and gently grab a player who’s too small to be playing.</p>
<p>The only way it works is if they don’t treat you like a real player, but someone who’s on an amusing lark to spice up her college applications. Some may do that. but what’s the point? Just to be a bit of a clown? Personally, I’d be fairly irritated with someone who treated the activity I put a lot of effort into as if it’s just an amusing lark. It’s like a kid who joins band only to make funny, pitchless farting noises with the tuba.</p>
<p>@playpus He doesn’t get destroyed because he’s always backup… There’s also a tall skinny kid on the team who doesn’t seem strong either, and he’s backup as well. If I did join, I’d probably be joining them on the bench rather than playing ;P</p>
<p>@kittycatyeah striving for the bench…thats REAL gender positive right there.</p>
<p>@ThereAreLlamas LOL “an amusing lark to spice up her college applications” When you word it that way, I guess that is what I’m aiming for - and the guys know that. To me, football practice will just be a time to hang out with the guys; I’m not serious about training like crazy or becoming super strong. My school’s team really isn’t intense, and practices are usually fun and light, except when there’s a major game coming</p>
<p>@loquatical As i mentioned before, the goal of this is to add something to my college resume. I really couldn’t care less about gender positives, unless it’s while I write my application essay.</p>
<p>yeah but you would get destroyed during practice, or the other people would go easy on you and then they are just wasting reps, and it sounds like your team can’t afford to be much worse. and the other guy brought up a good point, there is no one more hated then the person on the team just to say they were on the team, we have annual people that play just long enough to get in the picture and then quit for example, you don’t want to be the person slaking when everyone else is working hard. So again if you are going to do it start training now, I would be interested to hear how it turns out for you. since I am assuming you will probably take little of the advice given at least condition before hand and I wish you and your team luck next season!</p>
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<p>quote of the year, right here folks.</p>
<p>@playpus I’m not rushing to decisions - I have until senior year to decide whether I want to join or not. Who knows -maybe I’ll learn to play really well, and I’ll actually make the team better? Lol you never know… Thanks anyway for your advice/concern ;D</p>
<p>yeah, if you are going to do it you should probably decide before Christmas so you can start getting into shape for it</p>
<p>@playpus I will! I’ll also join the football players for a practice to see how the practices are like</p>
<p>@playpus And who knows, I’m going to do JV track this year - maybe I’ll like it and do V next year. Football is just another option I’m really interested in </p>