We are on the eve of training camp. Tomorrow the players will report. They'll weigh in. They'll start to measure what they did this off season. And was it enough? I used to think, was I going to weigh in with the right weight? Did I watch enough film? Did I make the necessary corrections from last year to this year to improve? And no matter how long you play, no matter what year you are, the number one thing

is am I going to start this year? Am I going to contribute? Am I going to be the guy? I still wondered

going into my fifth year at Michigan. We were obviously coming off a national championship.

I had been captain. Did I do enough? Or was one of these young guys,

one of these three, four, five-star recruits going to come in and take my position? As these guys

start training camp, we'll find that out and more for the 2018 football season. I'm John Jansen,

and this is In the Trenches. Let's go in the trenches with

John Jansen. The former Wolverines captain in Michigan Sports Hall of Famer will take you inside

the locker room with players and coaches. You have to be on the same page with the guy, you know,

that spearheads the program. That's my biggest goal. I mean, let's get the healthiest healthiest you know best players we can to the training camp and then we'll start practicing and let the chips

fall where they may we've got some entrenched people here you know welcome uh here we go once again

here's john jansen I had a number of strength and conditioning coaches at Michigan.

It was Mike Gilson.

When I went to the Washington Redskins, it was Dan Riley, who he and Mike actually grew up

together, came from both the same school of thought.

And the special thing about strength and conditioning coaches is that

you spend more time with your strength coach than you do with your position coach than the head

coach than anybody else. And you spend more time with your buddies struggling to improve,

struggling to get through a workout. At times, you're not

sure, one, if you're going to make it up the hill, if you're going to make it across the field,

but your buddies are there with you and your coach is rooting you on, encouraging you. When I think

back to the times that we weren't, just sitting in their office. Dan Riley, our strength coach at

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