Football recruit Mike Johnson and training

Interesting article about how recruit M.Johnson, who has verballed to GT, is training. He is working with his friend, a freshman as

LSU, and hopes to bulk up to 250lb before graduating.
Each workout has Johnson in the gym at 5 a.m., doing 10 exercises that include four sets of 10, eight, six and four repetitions.

Johnson's Monday workout schedule includes curls, bench presses, squats, heavy clean lifts, weighted sit-ups, pull-ups, push-ups, side dumbbell raises, 135-pound barbell presses and various neck exercises.

On Wednesday, Johnson adds into the regimen front squats, incline bench, dumbbell bench presses, shoulder shrugs, hamstring curls and dead lifts. Saturday's workout schedule includes a combination of the two previous days' workouts.

"I want to keep working hard every day to get better," he said. "I'm really enjoying it. You're going to get out of it what you put into it. If you don't work hard, you're not going to get anything out of it.

"I'm into working for what I get," Johnson added. "I want to work hard for everything."

Johnson said he can currently squat a maximum weight of 475 pounds, power clean lift 275 pounds and bench press 295 pounds.