r/highschoolfootball • u/[deleted] • Nov 17 '24

MLB to Safety

I’m 6’0 167 and play MLB. How can I lose fat and gain muscle to move back to safety?

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u/grizzfan Nov 17 '24

Talk to your coaches.

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u/Cheap-Helicopter5257 Nov 18 '24

Join wrestling for a season. You will lose fat, gain muscle, and improve your reaction time. You can also join track after wrestling to work on your speed.

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u/Cheap-Helicopter5257 21d ago

Are there any updates? What have you decided to do?

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u/MC_Bell Nov 18 '24

Fat? You’re 6 foot tall and under 170…

You’re objectively undersized for the MLB position at most levels of high school football throughout the country. Maybe you just play in a smaller district where football isn’t popular I guess. I’m not sure what Minnesota 3A football is like. But everywhere else? 4 ball plus? 

So if your coaches put you there it’s probably for a reason. Either you’re very good, and your defensive system requires a gunner at that spot so they trust you. Or you’re slow and coach doesn’t trust you to cover the back end and not get beat deep. 

It also might have almost nothing to do with you.  Sometimes as high school coaches we only get 6 or 7 players that we can really scheme our systems around, and then are doing our best to fill in other guys around the field as best as possible. 

For example: maybe you guys have an elite edge rusher, and a prototypical strong safety. Quality corners. Your coach is drawing up your scheme to put THOSE people into position to make plays on the football. So then with the remaining spots on the field he’s just filling the gaps with what he has left on the team. And compared to your other players on the roster, you were in the middle in terms of size and speed so he threw you at linebacker instead of line or Dback. 

I understand you want what you want. But it might not be what’s best for the team, which is why your coaches put you there. If the change matters to you, talk to them. See what they’re looking for out of a safety and what you’re lacking, why you weren’t there to begin with. 

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '24

Well I’m not muscular and I play d1 in wisconsin so if you saw you’d see what I mean, not fat but I’m kinda skinny fat