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What kind of warm up do you normally do? Any sort of agility or plyometric work on lifting days?

Anyone have any thoughts on doing TRUE plyometric training or agility work (ladders, cone drills)...

Scott and Krakkerz. I owe you both a couple rounds of reps. Thanks for the info. VERY useful!

And yeah Scott, the sunday lift takes about 45mins to warmup for a 20min workout. Usually plenty of...

Awesome mate thanks for the info. I'd rep if it'd allow me.

I gotcha. Good point.

In other news, what are your thoughts on tossing some plyo/agility in between sets of heavy squats or deadlifts?

Quick schedule:

Sat - Rugby Match/Tourney (if no match,...

Nice words from the master of Tao over here. It seems like your responses say less and less recently.

I understand that building a program 100% tailored to the athlete is going to be the best...

Texas rugby player checking in. I used to haunt the old thread before it faded away. Playing for top division locally, which may not mean much to you funny talkers. I believe scott donald and beer...

Agreed. Yeah, yeah eat and all that...though I find 10k calories a day (every day) hard to believe.

Starting strength, 5x5, CFFB, Wendler's 5/3/1....grab a program where you're lifting, compound...

I'd also want to think all that mass would affect your fitness, especially as a basketball player. I play rugby and had a similar off-season to yours, only I didnt put in any extra fitness work to...

Once you start seeing football players wearing belts on the field, THEN you should start wearing them daily. Lose the belt for all lifts below 90% of your max, your trunk/midsection will benefit from...

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read everything on this site, find and follow the amateur program on the collegiate schedule (assuming you play saturdays, august thru november he organizes an in-season...

there's a hot yoga place down the street from where i live. it makes my hamstrings sing, but the heat gets to me after about 60mins. totally legit

Just wanted to give some added direction to SDO's solid advice - check out Enter The Zone by Barry Sears. You may get a little bogged down by the numbers and structure he tries to place around...

Yes, you've already implied that. Where'd you find the science that led to this conclusion?

Not sure I understand that part. Wut?

I'd figure back squats would be better because you could go significantly heavier, eliciting a greater CNS and hormonal response.

Why not include some...

Hoo boy! been a WHILE since I've been here. Rough first go at Texas D1, managed to keep most games pretty close though. 7's is coming along quite nicely. If you read the rugbymag article about the KC...

Now see here!!

McCaw plays with intensity and tests the ref's boundaries. He doesn't play with malicious intent. There is a HUGE difference.

There have been very few games where McCaw doesn't look beat to hell...

Just do west side for skinny bastards 3, toss in as much running/conditioning as you can, and work up a '3 week' (aka 12 workout) cycle before changing it up for the next 12 workouts

I hear ya. the only thing I would see that'd be different would be the amount of volume in the WODs. The muscles needed to play powerfully and safely are essentially the same. Drop some of the weight...

I usually mix in two metcon workouts a week. I keep a big dose of heavy lifts in my routine though, even if that means doing 2-3 basic, heavy movements and then immediately doing some CF work. Use...