Bulking to play college football, am I doing this right?

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lright, so basically, i'm trying to be the biggest, strongest, and fastest human being that my body will allow for. My goal has always been to play at a high level in football, so here is my last resort i guess. currently, I am 6'2' ish and weigh right around 210. My goal is to at least get to 230 by the end of my senior year of high school, which is 8 weeks away. I am not trying to ever get cut, lean, ripped, or anything but huge. I am willing to bulk up to 20%, currently I have no clue what it is, I would guess somewhere around 10%. I have played years and years of many different sports, so i believe my athleticism is right up there where it needs to be. I have also lifted for a couple years, but mostly it has been with the wrong nutrition in placed. However, after getting gypt out of opportunities to play college football, and never really being given a shot at the right positions in my junior and senior years (I started both ways at lineman my senior year, while being faster than a majority of the DB/WR's), I'm going to give this football thing one final shot.

Not only do i want to gain a good 20 pounds, but I also want to gain quite a bit of strength on my core lifts. My goal is to play outside linebacker, i figure they'll redshirt me the first year i get there anyways, i just got to look good enough as a walk-on to make it. The college is the U of Nevada-Reno, they are a decent D1 football program. So in order to gain all this strength and weight, i'm figure to go about it in a sort of Powerlifting/Bodybuilding routine, or Powerbuilding. alternatively, i could also use a volume/mass-building program. If someone could clarify exactly which routine would be best for building strength and gaining weight in a short amount of time, this would be helpful.

I try as best I can to consume 6,000-8,000 calories a day, but i do have a family (don't live with my parents anymore) that is unsupportive and looking for me to fail that i rely on to get groceries. They will continually stock up on sweet crap, junk food, and other empty calories (they are fat pieces of s***) and ration better foods such as milk. An example of this would be that they only buy two gallons of milk a week, and blame me if i go through it too fast. They figure two gallons of milk a week for a house with two milk drinkers is good enough, yet there is always candy, pastries, muffins, and other sugary crap filling the cupboards. So, my point is, while I will try to down 6k-8k in nutrient-rich calories every day, a good portion of junk food will often be thrown in there.

Another problem could be actually getting to the gym, i hardly can make it to school and back every single day, let alone get a ride to the gym. I have no car up here either. My money is very limited, but i spend most of it on supplements, vitamins, and other essential. Currently I am taking this C4 extreme crap, which honestly seems to be a waste of 30$. I also take NO fury, Creatine 3x, a multi for "performance", fish oil, and several other vitamins mainly for acne and other overall health concerns.

So am I doing this right, is this s*** gonna work, or what? Advice would be nice. My goal is to become the biggest and strongest person i can be, while still maintaining that high level of athleticism. eventually i wanna get to around 250, but I figure they put you on their own diet, routine, and everything on a college football program. so that's it, I'm gonna give it my best shot, and that's all you can do I guess.
 
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Bro you dont need any supps cept maybe some protein powder. Look up John Welbourne online at cross fit football, AND talk to my johnny. (Google search those as I am not sure how this forums likes us posting direct links). Eat good food, lift fast, lift heavy, play foot ball. Get bigger, faster, and stronger.
 
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Don't bother with bodybuilding routines unless they are a very well established strength routine. If you eat right, you will grow on a powerlifting routine. Keep up with your conditioning work for football as this is crucial as well. There are several articles on EliteFTS on important drills people can perform for college football if you need some guidance. Additionally, a few other posters on this board are strength coaches and may also be able to guide you in a certain direction. You have the right idea, though, definitely. If you get strong and fast, and are a pretty good size, you probably will be able to walk on. Afterall, a football team recruits like 30-50 players, usually (including drafts out of high school, though). Don't know about Nevada, but chances are they do the same as well.
 
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couples things.

Dont try to put the weight on to fast and sacrifice speed in the process , you want to put the weight on right. 20 pounds in 8 weeks isnt a great idea. If you came into training for the next season at 215-220 as a freshman it wouldnt be a bad thing.

Make sure you work on mobility in the hips and ankles, very important on the defensive side of the ball.

If your going to try OLB also think TE you want to keep your options open, lots of guys go in thinking they want to be one thing coach puts them into another, 6'2" and a senior you will probably put another 1-2 inches of height on your frame before its all said and done, if you got decent speed and are 6'4" good for a TE, so work on youjr hands, even if you never play TE, it couldnt hurt for a OLB to have good hands. Also couldnt hurt for you to learn to run routes, helps with defending them.

Make sure you know what the resposibilities of the OLB are on the defense of the school you are going too, is he a hybrid type backer/de strickly OLB playing gap defense, etc,etc,etc. All different ways the LBs are used in college, so make sure its the style you think you can play or learn.

If its possible, maybe try to get some type of program from the strength and cond. coach at the school you want to go to, could find it online or through another player who attends there.

Bench,sqaut,deadlift are expected, but the Power Clean seems to be a favorite of alot of Strength Coaches so learn to do it correctly for speed and power.


edit: Make sure the school your looking at plays the type of football you want, some of those small western US schools in Nevade,new mexico,utah,etc,etc dont really care much about defense the scores look like basketball scores when they are done, so make sure that you wont have a problem if defense is an after though at the school you want to play at.
 

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