Training summer 2011/12
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Well that fealt like I did sweet fuck all of nothing haha. Training involved some skill work for warm ups then got into a live game of 10 on 10 with rolling subs (line outs but golden oldies scrums) for 15min each way. I played the whole time and I have to say introducing tackling, rucks and mauls takes a lot more out of you. It took about 10 mins to get involved in the contact. As time went on got more and more involved and started feeling better in the last 5 minutes as my 2nd wind started to kick in. Was good to get through the session, but god I hope I get my game fitness quickly haha.
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Its hard to tell as most of our rep players arent involved. I got more mobile as the game that went on and my second wind kicked in. With saying that I didnt seem to find it any where near as easy as our hooker whos in the preseason squad. <br />
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My base fitness and endurance is not to bad, although my speed is aweful at the moment. Considering the weight that Ive put on Im quite happy with how my recoverys going. The coaches havent said much, but have mentioned that I look in good shape and my skill work last night wasnt to bad. -
that's all good then, and hookers are always bastardsa and fit! Keep on trucking, and make usre you keep getting enough protein on board so as not to loose too much muscle with the amount of training you are doing at the moment. Always a problem in season, something I noted last season with some of our club boys. But then they took NO extra care of their eating plan, recovery drink = beer.
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Leg session today. Was meant to do biceps as well, but I swapped them out for calves. Supersetted machine hack squats with leg press, and smith machine lunges with good mornings. 4 x 12 for each exercise. Then finished off with seated calf raises, toe raises on the leg press machine finished off with standing calf raises. Legs were shaking in the shower after wards. Time to sleep haha.
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Had spin class this morning. The legs were feeling it this morning. Even after spending a lot of time last night stretching them out they were pretty tight to begin with. Went well though, and worked almost as a recovery session. Fully crashed out tonight though when I got home. Glad I set the alarm so I was able to make it to training in time, only to find out that the first half of training was a 5 km run haha. I enjoyed it, there were a couple decent hills which got the legs burning, but after the first 1-2 km the second wind kicked in and I was sweet. I enjoy the 5 km length for runs. Session was closed off with a game of touch, then a handful of shuttles to finish with.
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Chest and triceps today. Included some drop sets for the bench which worked out well. Allowed me to go a little bit heavier, and still try target the 12 rep mark. Might introduce the drop set a bit more for some of the other work outs to mix things up a bit come next week. <br />
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This afternoon I did the beep test to work out my vO2 max score. I dropped out level 11.2 which gave me a v02 max score of 50.8. Its the first time ive done the beep test since about 7th form so didnt really know what to expect. My recoverys sweet, but my speed again is average. I simply just couldnt keep up. A good starting point though. Was also good to be able to sit down and have a bit of a discussion with the guy to get some different ideas. Going to re test the beep test on the 29th, and do skin folds again just before club starts. He has also agreed to take me through some plyometrics on the 22nd and design up a programme to do once a week. <br />
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Also got informed today that a few of us in the naki Bs from last year will have a meeting witht the naki trainer to try get a speed programme set up which will be awesome. Anything to try and get that bit more of an improvement. Ive been talking to the naki boys whos programme has just started and they are getting thrashed at the moment a couple times a week. Theyve got a preseason game organised against a wellington xv on the 25th. Missed the cut for that, but still want to keep fit so Ill be in half decent shape incase Im called in to cover injury. Fingers crossed. -
Tonights training went well. 2km run to warm up, some handling drills, followed by some hip pad work to warm the shoulders up. Ended training with a 10-15min (I think anyways) each way playing 8 a side across the field, try line to 50m. It was in the rain and was really good. There was a lot more hits and counter rucking than last week. The body was tired going into it, but I left training feeling amped up and feeling good. The body might be a bit tight tomorrow, but I enjoyed getting back into it tonight.
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Did you see the blues training vid that was on youtube recently? boxing (full contact) with body shots. They were ripping on each other hard out! even then it's still hard to prepare the body for those huge collisions!<br />
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We used to do a lot of wrestling drills with Waikato. Its amazing how tiring it is. <br />
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Leg session this morning. Feels good to have already done it for the day. Supersetted machine hack squats and leg press again for 4 x 12. Thought Ild try some box squats afterwards but I pulled the pin pretty quickly after I struggled to do 12 x 60kgs. The quads were just fucked. Followed them with sprinter lunges (with my back foot up on a bench). 12 each side with 26kg dumbells in each hand and it just fully finished me off. I finished the session off with some calf work. By that stage it had been an hour so I called it quits after that.
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Trainings are going really well. Shoulders and back yesterday. Wrecked the shoulders yesterday. It must be a sight to see seeing a 120kg, 6'4" prop failing on 6kg dumbells. Club training was last night. Mike Collins, the TRFU academy manager came down and held the training. Unfortunately there was only 5 of us turn up which was a bit embarrassing but we had the training any ways. Worked out really well as we had a lot more work time. It was a combo of conditioning and skill work. He introduced us to the new naki trainers favourite exercise he grabbed from his time at the blues. Its a combo of sprints 100m and 200m. Aim for 20sec for the 100m and 40sec for the 200m. You go on the minute. So you run the 100m, have 40 sec rest, run the 200m, have a 20 sec rest, then run the 100m and so on and so on. Was really good. Apparently the blues do 10 sets of that 3 times throughout their trainings.<br />
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This morning was spin class and tonight was club training.<br />
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Also Bart I was starting to think that Ild consider adding explosive work, but Im not sure what exercises to add where within the work outs.
