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| » muddling along (Go to post) | 15-10-2011 @ 21:45 | ||
| Warm-up circuit Anderson front squat - 90x1, 100x1, 105x1, 95x1, 90x1 Squat - 50x30 Dips - +20 x20, x12, x7 - 90sec rest between sets Rack pull-ups - bw x18, x10, x7 Power curls - 45x10, 52.5x10 band work | |||
| » rugby world cup (Go to post) | 15-10-2011 @ 15:27 | ||
Post Edited: 16.10.2011 @ 00:14 AM by IainT It wasn't a shocking decision. IRB guidelines are pretty clearhttp://p.twimg.com/AbyShhqCQAI1G62.jpg:large "To summarise the possible scenarios when a tackler horizontally lifts the player off the ground - The player is lifted and then forced or 'speared' into the ground. A red card should be issued for this type of tackle. - The lifted player is dropped to the ground from a height with no regard to the player's safety. A red card should be issued for this type of tackle." Rolland had no choice, and he carded Florian Fritz for the same thing recently. Once you've got him past horizontal it doesn't matter if you spear or drop him, it's a red card. Putting him down will avoid that. Hook was poor, Wales really missed Priestland, Hook is no international 10. Warburton was missed, but that's his fault. Jones going off early was the third major blow. But, Wales missed kicks and they could have won that game. This French team are probably the poorest side to ever make a RWC final, England 07 were marginally better. | |||
| » muddling along (Go to post) | 14-10-2011 @ 21:40 | ||
| Speed deadlift - 100x2. 10 sets on a 45s timer. Power snatch from hang - 40x3, 45x2, 50x1 -6 sets. OHP 5/3/1 (single week) - 48.5x5, 55x3, 61x6. 42.5x2,3,5,10. 2,3,5,10. 2,3,5. Band pushdowns x25 Lacking motivation tonight. | |||
| » off-season anyone? (Go to post) | 14-10-2011 @ 13:39 | ||
little_a said:Is this like deloading, but longer? That's how I'd view it. As small's says, high level athletes take a real beating in-season. Rugby players etc will lose strength and mass, so their off-season will look a fair bit like what most of us do year round. The kind of training described further up though, fullbody, sets of 10+, that sort of thing might benefit a number of people for a few weeks each year. | |||
| » PROTEIN (Go to post) | 13-10-2011 @ 11:32 | ||
Post Edited: 13.10.2011 @ 11:36 AM by IainT Cystic fibrosis.I'm about on the same page as you regarding intake now btw, generally around training. It's also something easy for me to digest as a late night meal, so I use it then too. The other use really is when I can't be arsed to make breakfast or don't feel well and can't face solid food. My dietician does not support its use by the way. But then, their advice for putting on weight is to eat more crisps and chocolate between meals. Remember a long time ago reading an article with Louie Simmons in which he poo-poos nutrition, saying that one of his lifters only eats one small meal (grits?) a day. Which is probably an exaggeration, but even so, whatever he was doing was working for him, peraps not optimally though. There are guys who eat rubbish and are probably stronger than me without ever training, but they have nothing to teach me about nutrition and training. There are guys who train hard and are massively stronger than me, who eat like crap. Doesn't work for me, but I can learn about training from them. There are some hurdles in my way, they mean I have to try and do most things right most of the time to progress. So, like the smoking thread of recent weeks, I can learn from people who do better than me but get more stuff 'wrong', I just can't learn from what they do that is wrong for me. Same with vegetarianism (not to draw an equivalency with smoking), if it's something that disadvantages a strength athlete even slightly but is surmountable with effort by some, I won't be amongst them. Decent amount of protein is a good thing, getting it all from food is somewhat more expensive and more hassle, therefore bit of protein powder is no bad thing. | |||
| » PROTEIN (Go to post) | 13-10-2011 @ 10:52 | ||
Post Edited: 13.10.2011 @ 10:54 AM by IainT I'm only 5'7" Wayne, and I've been 14 stone, but didn't feel very well so dropped back. I'm actually about 13 odd stone. Untrained, I was 9 stone at university.I also have a medical condition that massively bumps up my calorie requirements, I was eating solid food like a loon and downing shakes to hold on to the 14st. | |||
| » PROTEIN (Go to post) | 13-10-2011 @ 09:42 | ||
| As Iain says, it is cheap and convenient. Yeah, you're spending 35-40 quid in one go, but over time the equivalent amount of protein via eggs, chicken etc is going to cost more. But, it's still for around training and bed time. And lazy mornings and quick "meals" on the run. | |||
| » muddling along (Go to post) | 12-10-2011 @ 19:52 | ||
| Power snatch from hang - 40x5, 45x3, 46x2 Push press - 50x5, 56x3, 58.5x2 Explosion and form over weight. 12-9-6/15-12-9 of 50kg thruster/rack pull-up - 5:19 | |||
| » how do you save a beloved friend from vegetarianism? (Go to post) | 12-10-2011 @ 15:19 | ||
Post Edited: 12.10.2011 @ 15:20 PM by IainT Ben_F said: Absolutely, if I followed my own logic I would be either Vegan or a meat eater, my form of vegetarianism is a cop-out really... but I guess I have become comfortable enough with it. That post of mine wasn't clear in that I recognise completely that you get it. I was really aiming it at the general ignorance of farming that exists out there. We hear every now and again that some kids surveyed don't know what animal 'beef' comes from, but knowledge of dairy or egg production is much more limited. I couldn't get by without meat, vegetarianism is discouraged and veganism very strongly discouraged for people with my medical condition, it's difficult enough to get enough calories anyway, meat and dairy goes a long way to helping that. Add in training on top of that, and I couldn't do it. Have occasionally considered dropping red meat, mainly because I like cows but don't give a s**t about chickens and fish. But, I'll always eat dairy so haven't. | |||
| » how do you save a beloved friend from vegetarianism? (Go to post) | 12-10-2011 @ 14:16 | ||
| Ben - not to try and make you feel worse or cause offence, but a lot of people are unaware of the 'toll' associated with dairy. At my uncle's farm my rather blunt cousin recently detailed it for my brother's vegetarian cheese-eating fiance. | |||
| » I like Power-Bars (Go to post) | 11-10-2011 @ 20:51 | ||
Post Edited: 11.10.2011 @ 20:52 PM by IainT tis the nice thing about 5/3/1 - the bare minimum (or a couple of reps more) is always achievable and worth doing too. | |||
| » muddling along (Go to post) | 11-10-2011 @ 20:15 | ||
Post Edited: 11.10.2011 @ 20:18 PM by IainT Training took a back seat earlier this year, simplified it and am now starting to enjoy it again.Goals for February: 1 - keep doing the conditioning, it pays off 2 - squat bodyweight for 50 reps 3 - get overhead press into the 90+% bodyweight range Friday Speed deadlift (can't pull heavy regularly) - 100x2, 8 sets, 1min timer Hang power snatch - 50x2, 3 sets. Changing this to RDL 2x10. OHP 5/3/1 (3's week) - 45x3, 52.5x3, 58.5x8. 41x2,3,5,10 ladder x2 Power curl - 45x10, 52.5x9 Saturday Anderson front squat (bottom position up) - 80x1, 90x1, 95x1, 100x1, 90x1 Back squat - 45x30, fast continuous reps Dips - +25x10,5,3,2 ladder x3 Rack pull-ups x 18,11,6. 90s rest Band work Sunday (Power work concentrating on power rather than weight, still new to both these lifts) Push press - 50x5, 55x3, 58.5x2 Power snatch from hang - 40x5, 43.5x3, 46x2 12-9-6 for time of 100kg deadlift/push-clap press-up - 3 mins Tuesday Floor press 5/3/1 (single week) - 70x5, 78.5x3, 87.5x9. 75x10, 70x10 Squat - 60x10, 82.5x10, 106x1, 126x1, 106x21. Bar slipped down back on 15th rep, lower back hated that and had to dump earlier than planned, should have got 25 possibly 30. Hip snatch - 40x10 Plate squat - 10x50 | |||
| » how do you save a beloved friend from vegetarianism? (Go to post) | 11-10-2011 @ 17:47 | ||
Post Edited: 11.10.2011 @ 17:49 PM by IainT Meat is nutritionally and calorificly dense. It rewards the effort of obtaining it, and then some. As a survival strategy, an animal like us that requires a substantial amount of food to support a substantial brain, meat makes a fair bit of sense. Only earlier today I was reading a (probably rather out of date now) book about human origins that posited that one of the possible reasons for a large degree of apparent sexual dimorphism in early modern humans* could be that males hunted and kept meat for themselves, leaving the women to mostly eat plant matter.If a substantial portion of your daily activity is dedicated purely to feeding yourself, then meat makes tremendous sense. Now, it takes little or no more effort to feed yourself adequately without meat. Adequately though, I'm sure there are outliers, but generally the strong guys out there are eating a fair amount of animal produce. * - in one place in South Africa, with a very limited sample to compare. For all we know the male was unusually large, the female unusually small. Plus, the book was written in the mid-90s and is probably a historical curiosity now. | |||
| » Age and Training (Go to post) | 10-10-2011 @ 21:25 | ||
| Hit 30 and have already changed my training. Knees and lower back were not enjoying a relentless 'heavy' battering, and I was finding training mentally tough and dull. I also found I needed to start doing conditioning and drop a bit of weight, my underlying medical issues were necessitating it, and they will cut my 'career' short at some point anyway so no point hastening that day. Gone over to a very Dan John-esque style of training - sets of 10 and 30 for squat, Anderson front squats, fullbody or near enough, at most 4 big exercises per session. Really enjoying it, and have started thinking again about taking up a sport to train for. Is 80kg too light to throw the hammer? I'm just going to do what I enjoy. If that becomes a 9 way split with 40 sets of biceps, I'll do it. After checking that urge out with a psychiatrist. | |||
| » rugby world cup (Go to post) | 10-10-2011 @ 15:25 | ||
| Feel sorry for Stevens really, he's a good TH. Unfortunately, he'll straight back in the Sarries team at LH. Did a bit of an analysis of the 31 players who have been in the squad for the RWC (30 originally, plus Waldrom for Sheridan). Only 11 of them will be under 30 in 2015. Of the over 30s, I suspect only Stevens at 33 has much hope of still being involved, as in the 31-35 group the only forwards are Deacon and Sheridan, and one of them is mostly useless and the other is mostly injured. Of the 31-35 backs, I can't see one who I'd expect to still be in contention. The 30yr olds include Foden and Flood, the former should be very worried that there aren't that many 30yr old fast counter-attacking fullbacks in international rugby, but there are a few young ones knocking around the Premiership. The youngest three in the current squad - Ben Youngs will be 26, as will Courtney Lawes, and Manu Tuilagi will be 24. There are going to be a lot of new faces in 2015, and they need to start identifying them now. No new backs who will be more than 30 then, no new forwards who will be more than 32 or 33. | |||