Overweight or Underweight?

[Doyle]

I won't claim to be an expert on this, but doesn't individual body makeup matter?

Some guys gain/lose weight easily.  Others have to fight for it.

From what I understand, athletes tend to be quick gainers/losers, but it's not universal.

This is what I was thinking and why I don't think there is any right or wrong answer. 

 

[Cary Kollins]

I'm about average.

[*FreeFua*]

 

I won't claim to be an expert on this, but doesn't individual body makeup matter?

Some guys gain/lose weight easily.  Others have to fight for it.

Pretty much, I flucuate within a 10 pound range each week. I typically weigh in around 200 on Fridays and after my cheat day Sunday I'll roughly be 210 every Monday morning but back to 200 Wednesday. That's mainly all the sodium retaining water but for me gaining/losing can be done pretty quickly.

To freak out over Benjamin being 8 pounds overweight is retarded. I'm guessing one week at camp in the heat and he'll be more than fine.

I see Jase said he'd rather see the guy have to gain but I'd rather see these guys come in slightly overweight. Gaining weight could be difficult while doing the amount of cardio these guys do throughout each day at camp especially in the heat. Much easier for one of these guys to come in overweight (within reason) and burn that off halfway through camp.

 

*Can't properly quote to save my life on my phone 

[Peppers90 NC]

Guys rest in the offseason and gain a little weight. They stay in shape but it usually isn't as rigorous as the nfl season

[DamoHicks]

Potential (unlikely) supplemental draft pick Isaiah Battle, although now reportedly in the 290-300 range, has weighed in as low as 270.  If he were to be drafted, he'll obviously have to bulk up.  It's been done here before, of course.  Look at how much weight Jordan Gross dropped when he no longer needed to put it on and keep it on.

On the flipside, there's all the jabber about Kelvin Benjamin being 8 pounds overweight.  Truth be told, 8 pounds is not such a big deal, but there's also word of Mike Tolbert slimming down.  And prior years have seen several players - mainly offensive and defensive linemen - come in well overweight and needing to work themselves back into shape.

So if you had to choose, which would you rather see in a player: An overweight guy who needs to slim down or an underweight guy who needs to bulk up?

Or he could switch to DE like Nate Chandler switched to OT. It may just work

[iamhubby1]

Man, I remember when the team in Dallas got the 1st 300lb lineman. Now at that weight, the only positions you can really play are LT, and C.

 

 

[juliosantos]

hes going to the bucs 

[Jase]

But wouldn't they just change the program to help them shed weight as opposed to gaining it?  If one guy is 10 lbs overweight and the next guy at the same position is 10 lbs underweight they aren't going to have them do the same things. 

Anyone in the NFL will tell you that as an athlete, when weight goes on, it typically doesn't come off.  The game is too physically demanding to try to cut fat during the season and it takes great commitment to do it in the offseason.  Couple that with how it gets harder to cut fat every year you get older.

[Doyle]

Anyone in the NFL will tell you that as an athlete, when weight goes on, it typically doesn't come off.  The game is too physically demanding to try to cut fat during the season and it takes great commitment to do it in the offseason.  Couple that with how it gets harder to cut fat every year you get older.

Your becoming Fiz Jr. 

[Jase]

Your becoming Fiz Jr. 

Nonsense...

...in an unrelated note, have you seen my performance as an extra on Gilmore Girls?

[L-TownCat]

If there is one thing the Spartanburg heat can fix its a few pounds of water weight.

[Mr. Scot]

If there is one thing the Spartanburg heat can fix its a few pounds of water weight.

Definitely.

I hear the players tend to lose weight too.

[countryboi]

its much much easier to bulk up than cut...i will take a guy thats underweight everyday of the week depending on drive and his frame.

[L-TownCat]

Definitely.

I hear the players tend to lose weight too.

Oh, this is about players?

I thought we were talking about girls...