capstone blog post number 5
Before I started my essay I thought it was going to be very hard to complete, but after I met with Ms. Edwards she gave me an outline to start with. The outline made the essay simple by separating the essay into parts. The essay I wrote explained my inquiry question, which was “How do the nutritional and fitness regimens of professional football and basketball players compare?”. Below is my essay.
How do the nutritional and fitness regimens of
professional football and basketball players compare?
by Chase Kantor
Do you know why JJ Watt and Lebron James are so buff? Well, their training and nutrition are important reasons why they are so fit. But, how do the training and nutritional regimens of professional football and basketball players compare? Read on to find out!
Some ways that football players train is by using box jumps, medicine balls, push sleds, tire flips, and bench pressing. Box jumps increase strength and muscle tone and builds lots of upper body and lower body strength.Aaron Rodgers’ workout routine is bench pressing 300 pounds, body weight squats, less weighted exercises to put less stress on your body, cardio (boxing drills, 400 meter sprints, going on stationary bike and rowing machines, pushing 3000 pound car, walking lunges, farmer walks), and yoga.
Some ways basketball players train is by using stationary bikes, treadmills, rope pulls, and lifting barbells. The difference between basketball training and football training is in basketball training there is more cardio and in football training there is more weight lifting. Russell Westbrooks’ workout routine is squat jumping, box jumping, stiff leg deadlifting, walking lunges, and russian twists.
Usually football players diet to gain weight while basketball players diet to lose weight. The Jets players go through large amounts of food daily including: 34 pounds of chicken a day, five pineapples a day, 18 pints of strawberries, a case of mangoes, and five cantaloupes. Lou Williams, an NBA player on the Los Angeles Clippers, has an egg white omelet, hash browns, chicken and turkey sausage in the morning. A 7 foot center would have about 6000 to 7000 thousand calories a day, while linemen and defensive tackles eat about 9000 calories a day. Defensive tackles and linemen have to eat a lot because they need to be big to get past the offensive linemen and sack the quarterback. The reason why basketball players eat a lot less than football players is because they need to be more agile and jump higher.
Training affects football players physique by increasing strength and muscle tone, core strength, strength in the glutes, hamstrings, quads.Both sports lift weights and have special diets.
Some ways training affects basketball players body is development of lean muscle. It helps develop your lower back, neck, deltoids, traps and core muscles, triceps, abdomen, shoulders, and calves. The difference is the training makes football players big, strong, and muscular. For basketball the training makes the athlete lighter, faster, and slim. I think football players have bigger muscles than basketball players but I think basketball players can jump higher.
In conclusion basketball training and football training have similarities and differences. Basketball stresses cardio. Football emphasizes strength and power. Football players want to maintain weight. Basketball players want to have stamina and not be that fat. Training makes basketball players slim but not very slim. Training makes football players strong and muscular. Both sports spend long hours training with weights and both use special healthy diets to help the athletes gain peak performance.