NY Giants - Squat, Bench and Power Clean by Position

[OZ-USF-UFGator]

I have no Question, just some numbers I came across that I thought would be interesting to SS Forum regulars. It would have been nice if they included SVJ so we could see the correlation among SVJ, Squat and clean.


http://www.menshealth.com/fitness/nfl-muscle

[cutlet#]

So Eli benches 135 and squats 266? Holy shit.

[Meshuggah]

No wonder they were so good this year...

[mkgillman]

6'4", 317 lbs, and 22% bf? That doesn't seem possible.

[Joe Jaloszynski]

Imagine how much better they would be if everybody could squat 455 for a set of 5.

"455 isn't that heavy!"
-Mark Rippetoe

[John Hanley]

Imagine how much better they would be if everybody could squat 455 for a set of 5.

"455 isn't that heavy!"
-Mark Rippetoe

I'm confident most of the team can. I have a hard time believing these numbers. I seriously doubt there's a single linebacker in the NFL who couldn't squat 500.

That said, in his end-of-season interview, Tom Coughlin emphasized that the team needed to get stronger.

[OZ-USF-UFGator]

So Eli benches 135 and squats 266? Holy shit.

I'm figuring the squat is fairly accurate, but I would guess the quarterbacks are tested on a "max reps @135?"

[OZ-USF-UFGator]

I'm confident most of the team can. I have a hard time believing these numbers. I seriously doubt there's a single linebacker in the NFL who couldn't squat 500.

This might include practice squad, walk ons, etc. The article doesn't specify "starters", nor does it specify that these numbers are 1-rep maxes. Men's Health doesn't appear to me as a very scientific source.

[OZ-USF-UFGator]

6'4", 317 lbs, and 22% bf? That doesn't seem possible.

No, not unless steroids and growth hormone were freely used...

[cutlet#]

6'4", 317 lbs, and 22% bf? That doesn't seem possible.

Why does this not seem possible?