Mainly just wrestling and bjj but my GF plays and she said I’d be a good flank
Still does lol
I’m pretty excited to be “free” from strongman comps to get back to real sports lol
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I’m gonna agree with all the others who’ve played, it’s an absolute blast. Its also incredibly physical (and painful at times) but you get acclimated to it. I played for 3 years in HS as a Right Wing and I loved it
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That’s crazy to find 2 people who have played it before already lol
Sounds like a blast tbh. Miss that about wrestling
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How many liberals have you broken into pieces?
Lol jk.
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That smarts!
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+1 for rugby: I played for two years in college—also right wing. It was just a small club team, but it was awesome!
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Yes!!! Get into rugby, best sport in the world, been playing for ever 25 years but have had to accept the fact i’m not as fast or strong as i used to be.
The main advice i’d give to someone on here, is make sure you adjust your volume for the battering you take on the weekend. Your body needs to be 100% ready for the game. let us know how you get on.
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@SvenG Sounds like I’m going to have to try it out!
@rugby_lifting How much do you drop your volume by? 25% or so? I’d assume it takes a minute to figure out how much each person needs to drop it by individually but just as a start
@Friedrich Had to get the adrenaline pumping some how!
Feast W3D3
Time: 65 min
Through warm up. Left leg is healing up really well
SB extension (1 pick and 2 extensions): 200x5x2 (done like speed work. damn near popped it over my head) 250x2x2: 250x1x6
BOR: 245x3x3, 165x3x10
Circuit (dropped movements as completed):
Pronated Rear delt swings: 15x4x20
Hammer curl: 35x4x6
AB wheel: 8,7,6,6,6
Strict curl (back against wall): 40x3x20
Notes:
- I’ll admit I haven’t been strict with the daily work although I have been moving around a lot (various bw movements). I’ve actually been doing stance in motion with my dog. She loves it. I think not doing the same 300 reps everyday is what’s making my leg work correctly and my pecs feel not like shit
- About to finish “All The Pretty Horses” by Cormac Mccarthy. I think it’s my favorite book by him so far. It feels very real
- @Stormblessed I have a confession. The past 2 days my screen time has been way up because I’ve been on break. It’s mainly because I have youtube on while I’m doing stuff around the house but not spending hours on instagram is making me feel amazing and recharged
- I didn’t want to do snatch grip high pulls so I channeled my inner @simo74 and used those water barrier things we have for hurricanes for the main pull work. I got a wild hair up my ass and channeled my inner @T3hPwnisher by telling myself “If I get 6 in one set, I can call it”. (It’s inner Pwn because I didn’t think I could but I overcame). I actually really enjoy that movement
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Dude, I’m honored to be mentioned alongside that degree of awesomeness. You crushed that! Great pivot as well to take that on in place of the high pulls.
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I’ve accepted it’s going to happen sometimes. Breaking a long-standing habit isn’t going to be without ups and downs. As long as my trend is going downward, then all is well. It’s going to be a long process but so worth it. I am totally off Instagram and Twitter. Reddit is still a downfall of mine. Need to just bite the bullet and delete that too lol
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Nothing like lifting random things for training, nice work fella.
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I’ve always found Reddit to be a lot more useful than Google.
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On Reddit I either learn something useful or read about how the holocaust was fake lmao
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Feast W3D4
20 mins of farmers with 100lb handles. I was working on the turns
215 stone: 3x1
Concentration curl: 25:8,8,8,6,6
Superset:
BB curl: 75x3x8
China: 8,4,4
Tricep CGBP: 145x8,6,6,6,6
Extensions: 100x5x6
HLR: 6,9,10,10,7
Notes
- first workout at new gym
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Feast W3D5 or 6
Squat: 295x5x1, 315x1
Notes:
- I think I need to stop back squatting. It’s causing me a lot of mental fatigue
- I stopped today because holy fuck I was just getting mad with how slow the bar was moving
- I don’t think Jamie’s feast stuff is working for my squat. Literally everything else feels strong except for squat and I love to squat so it bothers the fuck out me
- I’m coming off a long weekend so I’m really just burnt out. I think 4 days is my sweet spot
- With my squat, a conjugate style split seems to drive it best. Probably because of having actual accessories but whatever. Just really pissed off
- I really think all this heavy stuff is taking a toll on my body and mentally draining the fuck out of me
- It might be time to go to something like conjugate because that’s literally 4 days a week and works well for me but keep the calorie cycling. Lifting is feeling super laborious
- Also I’ve been having a lot of trouble going to sleep and staying asleep the past 5 days
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You will often find that while some areas progress others slow down or stall for a while. When ever my squat is good, my bench sucks. When my bench feels strong, my deadlift is slow AF. Don’t stress it too much, just hit the numbers, eat, recover and more forward.
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I think that’s the big thing here. Lots of life stress showing up in lifting and it makes me mad. Looking back I should have switched the front squats but live and you learn
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But remember, still squatting and struggling with it, even if you feel like is crap, you are still building. Sometimes it takes weeks of seemingly no improvement in a lift and then suddenly you add 10kg’s. Its like building a house, you dont get to use the second floor until all the walls are built. You are just laying bricks mate.
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I cut my leg volume in half (also make sure you do them early in the week if you pay Saturday), then any pressure points you have with minor niggles, so like my shoulders can flair up some weeks i lower volume (by decreasing intensity) but that is specific.
The big thing to me is making sure you are fresh for the games. That will be down to you, your age, recovery etc. Thats probably some trial and error on your part. I know i areas of my body i can blast on Monday and also ones i know won’t recover.
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I only ever ran Feast one time, and I’m starting to think it was for something similar here. For some reason, every time it came time to run it again, I came up with something else to do. It just HAMMERS you. And Jamie gives you carte blanche to do what you want with the training, so you’re in the clear here.
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