Fuller's Gym and Rugby Log
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General Fitness is ok, but could be much much better, these past few weeks i have been so busy with work that i have only been to teh gym around once a week and rugby training once if i can. The games i have amde on the sat have been hard work when it gets a buit loose and i didn't feel great.<br />
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I will draw my conclusions in a few weeks when i get back into the swing of things.<br />
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What i have found is that my calves have been tightening up within 5 mins of jogging, i need to warm up just my calves for arouynd 20 mins to ensure that they don't cramp up. I put this down to the creatine, i read somewhere that athletes Iwan Thomas stopped taking it in powcder form when it gave him the same problems....<br />
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Fitness wise - it is less the additional weight and more the fact that i have near no time to any focussed running. If i have rugby training Tues and Thursday nights...and weights on Monday, Wednesday and Friday...with a game sat, i only have a free day on Sunday. I either cut down on the gym (which i am loath to do) or tag on some extra running after training..<br />
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Need another off season i reckon. -
My aerobic fitness has never been a strength <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> but the heavier I can lift, the longer it takes my lower body to warm up before any form of cardio or team training. Takes about 30 minutes before my body feels loose and ready to go. (by which time I feel exhausted from warming up so long!)
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Have played 2 games in our merit league (for Finchley 2's) this year, the first at 13, the second as 11. We lost both!!!!!<br />
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We have a top back line, with most of us in the mix in terms of selection for the 1st team but our pack tends to be slow to break downs and leaks possession in contact. We have a good line out but the cscrum is average we just find it difficult to hold on to possession.<br />
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Both games this year we have cut them to pieces in the backs but then been bullied in the pack, with bost games being lost by arond 6 points.<br />
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This weekend i played my old team - and managed to get on the scoreboard Ha! <br />
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Got the gym on Friday and Sunday so sandwhiched playing with gym work. But there aren't enough hours in the day nor days in the week at the moment. -
Oh and i have come off the Creatine for a bit.<br />
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I found i was getting really bad cramps in my calves and so will leave it be for a bit. I have read that you should use it in cycles anyway. SO i wil give it around 5 weeks before getting back on it, maybe in tablet form. -
Went on the gas for the first time this season the night before a game. It was my debut for the 1st team ina friendly and i almsot fainted while sretching my calves out. Felt like shit, had no energy and couldn't get in the game at all. Crap. Against a team of bums as well.<br />
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Awesome preperation. -
Did a chest session last night and first gain in a while since hitting a plateau a few weeks ago. Since i have come off the cretine it has certainly been a bit harder but last night i managed gains on bench, incline bench (on smith) and dumbell press.<br />
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Got the bench press up to 95kgs for 3 reps, so i am now pushing more than my body weight by 5kgs. Aim was to get to 100kg lift by Autumn, so i am just about on course i reckon.<br />
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Am fucked today though. -
you will be lucky to make any gains, or even stop yourself from slipping in the weights department once the season starts proper, sodon't get too disheartened when this starts to happen. Between injuries and lack of recovery, the weights just slip - it sucks...
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[quote name='BartMan']<br />
you will be lucky to make any gains, or even stop yourself from slipping in the weights department once the season starts proper, sodon't get too disheartened when this starts to happen. Between injuries and lack of recovery, the weights just slip - it sucks...<br />
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Yeah tell me about it, we are 5 games in now and my Sunday sessions are gone to pot, Legs sessions are almost non-existant as they are either a day before a training sesh or the day after a match.<br />
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Thinking of trying some protein shakes etc... to help. Anyone got any experience/opinions on these? -
[quote name='BartMan']<br />
protein shakes - <br />
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save<br />
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all those sorts of things have been pretty sus in my experience - eat proper balanced diet and you should be sweet.<br />
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That is the type of advice that is easy to take Bart. -
62 nil win for us yesterday, got a brace and had my third disallowed by the ref for no reason at all other than the oppo told him i had knocked on ( i had kicked a ball ahead). Bull shiT! but it saved me buying a jug for the boys.<br />
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Back to the gym today to see if i can move anything. -
Been focusing on shoulders this week, mostly with shoulder press, dips, pull downs and shrugs as well as a couple of other things.<br />
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pushing around 60kgs on the press but i am getting a recurring niggle in my left shoulder, got it a few weeks back, during a chest session with the pain forming a line from the should over the bicep and then behind the elbow, ached like fuck that night.<br />
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Again, i am struggling to keep a proper regular routine going, what with recovery from games and work commitments, at the moment only managing 3 visits to the gym a week. -
[quote name='teacup']<br />
Does Finchley have any friendlies planned against the might that is Haringey this year?<br />
The one before the England test last year was a cracker (we don't have sky at our clubrooms so we like to play these ones away).<br />
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Not sure mate, if they are friendlies they are ususally ad hoc games. Will check the site in a bit. -
Fuller - what have your gains been? Mainly weight and any other measures if you have any?<br />
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I'm about to embark on something similar, and sounds like I'm a similar size so you can be my inspiration....<img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /> -
[quote name='Fullermorg']<br />
Need another off season i reckon.<br />
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I seem to remember that was all you did, have seasons off? :nta -
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[quote name='Fullermorg']<br />
Need another off season i reckon.<br />
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I seem to remember that was all you did, have seasons off? :nta<br />
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That's true, only because my blind side didn't do any donkey work and left it to the backs!!! -
[quote name='Bones']<br />
Fuller - what have your gains been? Mainly weight and any other measures if you have any?<br />
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I'm about to embark on something similar, and sounds like I'm a similar size so you can be my inspiration....<img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
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I got back into the gym and regular weights about April this year.I didn't weight myself at that point on starting to go to the gym again but a few montsh before my stats were 6ft 1inch and weighed in at around 83/4 kg at most it was 85kgs.<br />
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Managed to reach 90kgs about September time and have since then pretty much stayed at this level, i am concerned only with maintaining it now as the rugby season has kicked off and training twice a week it is easy for it to fall off. Try to get to teh gym three times a week to work on weights through the season, but because of the fact that i am doing a lot of running in training twice a week and a game on Sat, leg sessions in the gym are hard to do (and this impacts on weight gain)<br />
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Since say end of July i have been using Creatine and found it a massive help. The extra energy means you can do say 4 sets of bench instead of three etc,,, and obviously this has a knock on effect when it comes to gains.<br />
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The only thing i wouild say is that due to a focus on weights during the summer i didn't put enough emphasis on fitness and suffered in fast paced games, only now is that starting to rectify itself.