Hello,
Rugby pre season training has started and I am a little disappinted in the new coaches spirit. Last year we did little to no fitness at the start of the year only playing touch on most traIning runs. We ended up doing tuesday fitness and intense drills thursday during the finals. This ended up with blokes off injured before games.
So far through the off season i have been working on strength gains eating alot of good food and lifting as heavy as possible. Very little cardio.
I have now jumped in with some boxing circuits and jogging.
I feel pretty good and the fitness is so much better then last year BUT the new coach thinks we trained a bit hard last year so we will be doing it a bit easy this year! I didnt think it could get easier.
With all the great minds on here I thought someone would have some new tricks and tips for a bloke who is getting old. (to old to be mucking around with footy according to the misses)
I play in the forwards but ended up playing in the backs last year. Now i know what your thinking, i must have a bit of speed to be moved out the pretty blokes and you are dead wrong. The 60 old touchy can out run me but i can catch a high ball and occasionally trip a bloke over and call it a tackle. I would like to be a bit more of a back this year so want to do more speed work and trim down abit.
So the new training will consist of more clean and jerks, jump squats, sprints. Basically more explosive stuff a little lighter then my strength stuf but lifting as quick as i can with good form and very little rest.
I am pretty much in the dark about sprint training and figure i may be to old to develop any speed (31)
Any thoughts, tricks, techniques?
Rugby pre season training has started and I am a little disappinted in the new coaches spirit. Last year we did little to no fitness at the start of the year only playing touch on most traIning runs. We ended up doing tuesday fitness and intense drills thursday during the finals. This ended up with blokes off injured before games.
So far through the off season i have been working on strength gains eating alot of good food and lifting as heavy as possible. Very little cardio.
I have now jumped in with some boxing circuits and jogging.
I feel pretty good and the fitness is so much better then last year BUT the new coach thinks we trained a bit hard last year so we will be doing it a bit easy this year! I didnt think it could get easier.
With all the great minds on here I thought someone would have some new tricks and tips for a bloke who is getting old. (to old to be mucking around with footy according to the misses)
I play in the forwards but ended up playing in the backs last year. Now i know what your thinking, i must have a bit of speed to be moved out the pretty blokes and you are dead wrong. The 60 old touchy can out run me but i can catch a high ball and occasionally trip a bloke over and call it a tackle. I would like to be a bit more of a back this year so want to do more speed work and trim down abit.
So the new training will consist of more clean and jerks, jump squats, sprints. Basically more explosive stuff a little lighter then my strength stuf but lifting as quick as i can with good form and very little rest.
I am pretty much in the dark about sprint training and figure i may be to old to develop any speed (31)
Any thoughts, tricks, techniques?