A large part of the work in 2025 Gators from Florida The football team has so far done in the weight room, led by the Director of Football and Conditioning Tyler Miles.
After the Bowl match, the calendar turns around and the winter registrants join the team. Miles must prepare them for the spring camp, then the process is repeated with summer inscriptions before the fall camp. Miles could be best suited to determine which players will intensify as leaders after pushing them all year round in the weight room.
Here is all Miles said to the press corps before the fall training camp.
Opening declaration
“I just want to say above all that I am incredibly proud of the work that these young men have devoted to this summer and to all this off -season. They have really made a lot of great progress in all different ways, and I could not be more proud of them.
“Not only how they worked, but also how they got into and really managed and played this role as a team. So, incredibly proud of them.”
Who emerged as leaders?
“Kamran James had a phenomenal summer in many ways, but like a leader, as a whole, very vocal and led by example. He really took this leadership role. Denson has experienced great off -season and has also become more vocal.
“Austin Barber, he was at the front.
On the changes to the program
“One of the greatest things was to make it more directed by the players. Last year was a bit like almost our basic year, right? We had to establish the fundamental principles, the basics not only in strength, packaging and race and sprint and all these things, but how to really lead to team and do their team.
“We have progressed the movements. We have become more advanced in many different things, both in progress and raising, but also by doing more than their team. They ran Flex. They led something called Prep and Core to start lifting. There were times when we would just let the last lifting group make it work.
“It was therefore the greatest thing, it is to make it their baby, which allowed us to progress more easily all movements and to obtain more advanced and different things there.”
On fat loss, muscle gain
“We won 700 pounds of muscle during the offseason. Last year was 580, so we won 120 pounds more than the last off -season, and we lost 200 pounds somewhat fat, somewhere in both hundred. We have not lost as much fat this year, but we did not have as much fat to lose.
“Our guys had done an excellent job last year. Sixty-five percent of our team won muscles and lost fat in season. We also have them longer because the game of Bowl, so we did not have as much fat to lose.
On the growth of Cormani MCCLAIN in the weight room
“He continues to become stronger. Put the weight and put the muscles. He will never be your big vocal guy, but we don’t need him. He does his job. He enters. He stays in difficulty.
On overall weight gain
“He was in the 160s when he arrived here, then last week, his lens of body weight was about 190, and he did. Now, sometimes he drives drinks or something else if he has to remain hydrated. But he is in the 180s, so somewhere about 20, 25 pounds (added) because he is here.”
Maturing
“He is mature and he has become more – I don’t want to say intelligent, but he uses his brain more, right? He thinks alone. He is a pro because that’s what it will take when he goes out on the ground. He must communicate, and this is one of the great things that we pushing not only with him but with everyone.
“This is why they lead the flex, the preparation and the nucleus. They must learn to communicate with each other and to direct each other, and not only to behave with each other, but also
On LJ McCray
“Honestly, LJ probably had one of the best seasons out of anyone. He won about 40 pounds, and each of his elevators, like PR per 40 pounds. You can see him now in his arms. He is thicker and more muscular. He has had phenomenal offseason.
“Last season, off -season, LJ, it was his first year, right? The bodybuilding room was not his favorite, but he really attacked it this year. Whether he like it or not, he did not show it because he was taking every day.
On the size of DJ Lagway, program
“It is difficult to say exactly with him because the quarters in general are not lifted like the rest of the team. They will not be so big. They will not look like George Gumbs. So we focus not only on him, but on the quarters as a whole. More stability and that kind of things, and mobility in their thorn and all this.
“He was where he was to be. He worked very hard, and he did a good job.”
On line players who make gains
“They have become not only stronger and more explosive and all these things, but their mobility. We definitely fall into the hole. We make them work these large ranges of movements that the big ones do not really want to work. But at the end of the day, they had to be strong in this stance. They are really adapting.
“When we took over for the first time when I took over, it was like, hey, you have to go there. Now, speaking of the duty of squat or the taking of a clean stroll or one of these things, or to do your divided squats, or whatever, as, it is not even a conversation. They know that they have to go there.
On lateral movement work
“We have done this off -season a lot with a multidirectional race and jump. You must train stronger in different movement plans. So we have done a lot of different things with that instead of simply running straight in front or even jumping straight.
“We made different jumps where they made a turn in the air, we made different jumps where we would jump at the end of our race and our packaging, because they are in a state of fatigue. We want them to learn to stabilize in their state of fatigue.
“So we have done a lot of different things this year, putting them in different airplanes in different states of the body. You do not always make your jumps on the football field when you are fresh, right? You do this in a state of fatigue most of the time because you are playing.”
Early impressions on summer inscriptions, preparation
“I’m going to send them training plans and manage plans to try to prepare them as best I can before getting here, but it’s never the same thing. They will never do it at the tempo or the emergency we do here. So you just hope for the best.
“Fortunately, the Napier coach recruits very great young men, and they are very mature and very intelligent, and they succeeded in the ground. Myles Johnson is incredibly intelligent. I mean, this guy came the first day and did not miss a beat. This is only an example.
“It is always an adjustment for them first, the emergency and the tempo. We run everywhere, even in the weight room. You do not walk in your next room, you run to your next movement. This part is an adjustment for them, but they pick it up very quickly.”
How do the first registered themselves compare?
“Where they save is that they have more time. So now they have saved more muscle. They have become stronger. When these summer inscriptions come in, we have to start them where we started winter. We try to associate these guys with racks with these guys so that they can also, and that gives these young guys a chance.
“The best way to learn is to teach.”
On the composition of the current list
“I am very inspired by what I see. They are incredibly harsh and incredibly resistant. I think you saw this at the end of last season, and this is taken in their training during their offseason. They are very good young men, but I think that the best thing about them is their will not only to work hard, but they want to do very well. Their hardening and their grain.
“I know that sometimes me and my staff can be very difficult for them to be even more difficult and to have more grain and all these things, but the truth is said, and I hope they do not see that, they are in fact young real men, and I am very proud of them because we push them very hard. We push them very strong.”
Are they confident?
“You couldn’t guide yourself and take the leadership of each other if you didn’t have confidence. They didn’t lack confidence, that’s for sure.”
Any “monster” off competition in the bodybuilding room
“The top of the list is Jadan Baugh, who spent an incredible summer. He broke Liftin and made records not only for his position, but we are making the strongest book. We put him in a formula, and he has delivered for Pound the strongest man of the team. Not only in the team, but since we started to follow this book for Pound, the strongest guy we have ever had.
“Aaron Chiles is very impressive. Jayden Woods, a real recruit. I know that we have talked a lot about Jayden, but Jayden is an impressive young man. He continues to beat almost all the records we have for his position. So these three, Trey Wilson, he put a lot of muscle, looks really good.
“George Gumbs. There are so many. Jake Slaughter. Austin Barber and Jake Slaughter had the competition all summer for who would clean the most, and I think they both finished about 380 pounds, they really push each other.
“Tyreak Sapp. I mean you just watch SAPP. You have just seen SAPP. It’s a monster. There are so many guys. They are big guys. You have your lean guys. Sharif Dénson weighs almost 200 pounds and builds a lot of solid muscle. Aaron Gates seems phenomenal.
“So many guys, J. Michael Sturdivant – 216 (books). Dallas Wilson – 216 pounds. Dallas has put almost 13 pounds of muscle since he crossed the door. There are so many guys, but those at the top, because we were just going to say that I am assured.”
On Jamari Lyons and Aaron Gates returning from an injury
“Ils l’ont tous les deux très bien géré. Nous avons dû progresser, et c’est notre travail, cependant, non? Nous les progressons lentement et nous avons en quelque sorte dû retirer les rênes dessus. Mais je pense que la meilleure chose que nous ayons vue était Jamari. Ne rien retirer d’Aaron, mais Jamari, sa blessure a été si mauvaise, et pour lui de revenir de cela et de ne pas se remettre et de se remettre et de se remettre et de se remettre et de se remettre et de se remettre And to recover and get back and get back and get back and get back and get back and get back and get back and do things.
“Many people there after this kind of injury could have hung him up, and he did not do it. He continued to push, and he really had a good off-season and that did not hold him at all.”
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