"Do You Even Lift Bro?" - Sal Frelick (kinda)

[Jopal78]

It appears this is just not reading carefully. In today’s JS there is an article about Frelick which states in his bio  his weight was 185, but Sal stated be actually started last season at 175. Like many young players he lost weight during the season and Sal said he finished at 167 lbs.

He reported to camp at 192 lbs this year, or 25 pounds heavier than he finished last year, but just 7 pounds heavier than he’s officially listed in the media guide or whatever. 
 

So increasing his strength in the offseason is likely but nobody really is saying he added 25 pounds of muscle.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

12 hours ago, jesusoftheapes said:

He is a pro athlete so anything is actually possible because they are starting from a place of great fitness from the jump.  So they are better at adding muscle than the average John Q Public.    

Yeah that's not how it works. It would actually be a lot harder for someone already in some measure of shape to do this, than it would be the average out-of-shape person to do it if they took their training seriously. 

If this were the case then NFL players would show up bigger and stronger every single year. When you are 210 pounds of rippling stone, adding mass becomes very very difficult to do. 

If you have been sitting at a desk for 10 years, transforming your body is simple - not easy - but simple with dedication.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

3 minutes ago, Jopal78 said:

It appears this is just not reading carefully. In today’s JS there is an article about Frelick which states in his bio  his weight was 185, but Sal stated be actually started last season at 175. Like many young players he lost weight during the season and Sal said he finished at 167 lbs.

He reported to camp at 192 lbs this year, or 25 pounds heavier than he finished last year, but just 7 pounds heavier than he’s officially listed in the media guide or whatever. 
 

So increasing his strength in the offseason is likely but nobody really is saying he added 25 pounds of muscle.

Literally every headline about this is that he "added 25 pounds of muscle." However the silliness of the whole thing is also evident in this: "Frelick noted that he had already lost three pounds between when he left home and reported to camp."

That's one trip to the bathroom and a light breakfast. The inference that he lost 3 pounds of muscle already is this silliness at work.

 

[Playing Catch]

I think there aren't enough of us reading the articles and quotes, with grains of salt, instead of just building off of headlines and commenting on comments.

Frelick was quoted as saying he was reporting about 7 pounds heavier than at this point last season, and that in the offseason he added, "...a ton of muscle".

The "25 pounds of muscle," was purely added by the authors/headline writers. Not Frelick.

[CheezWizHed]

Yes, that is how I was reading the article.  His weight was under his regular weight from mid-season, so there will be some natural bounce back.  He gained 25 pounds total, but didn't measure the amount of muscle.  

Then some click-happy journalist turns it into an unbelievable story.  

If he just said that he gained 25 pounds from last year by eating his mom's Italian food, then we would all have a different image of what that weight looked like. 

[OldSchoolSnapper]

39 minutes ago, Playing Catch said:

I think there aren't enough of us reading the articles and quotes, with grains of salt, instead of just building off of headlines and commenting on comments.

Frelick was quoted as saying he was reporting about 7 pounds heavier than at this point last season, and that in the offseason he added, "...a ton of muscle".

The "25 pounds of muscle," was purely added by the authors/headline writers. Not Frelick.

I never really thought this was a claim Frelick was making. It's just BSOML fodder that we get from reporters EVERY year.