Fuller's Gym and Rugby Log
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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. -
[quote name='Fullermorg']<br />
[quote name='team rebel']<br />
[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!!!<br />
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Hhhmm, if I remember correctly, we only played in one game together...and I was at the bottom of a ruck when you yourself knocked out.... -
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[quote name='Fullermorg']<br />
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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!!!<br />
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Hhhmm, if I remember correctly, we only played in one game together...and I was at the bottom of a ruck when you yourself knocked out....<br />
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Maybe my memory is hazy because of the KO's!<br />
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My team played Fullerians this weekend. Won up in Watford 26 - 20. However i wasn't playing! i was in the two's.<br />
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Fullerians went down last year from London 3 and are yet to win this year. Going to be a hard couple of seasons for them i think, with a pack that is a mixture of old boys past their prime and younguns with potential. But no really good forwards yet.<br />
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This week's game - beat Tring 3's 6 tries to 3. Good win against a big ole team with a a smattering of Tring 1st team players (Tring are leading London 2) coming back from injury.<br />
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Never played against a team with such a muscular backline. After a dodgy first few mins it emerged that they should cut back on the weights and maybe learn how to draw man and pass. Went into half tiome 2 tries to on down and then ran in 5 tries in the second half as our backline cut them to shreds. Played 14 in the first half and 13 in the second.<br />
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Scored 1 set up a few more with some very, very basic rugby. Run straight from deep and at gaps - have as many moves as you like but the simple rules are always the best.<br />
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Managed to get to the gym last night for a shoulder and arms sesh but nothing crazy. Big weights session tonight though doing a Chest and back session.<br />
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Weight is up to 14stone 2lbs.