thenewguy23's Workout Log: Get Big or Die Tryin' !

[toad1]

Yeah these rumours are always present around school so far I've heard that weightlifting stunts growth, bench press stunts growth, LEG press stunts growth and as long as you take a protein shake without creatine you won't stunt your growth, the funny thing is everybody who says this has never lifted weights

And yeah those suicides are a killer, never thought I'd be doing so much conditioning at training even when we're still in season.

creatine stunting growth wow, where do these things come from!!

nice gym work, 65 reps of bench and 74 reps of leg press is a tonne of volume good stuff.

just start squating now.

[BobisMighty]

Also going to ask one of the people in my gym how old I gotta be to start squatting there and using more free weights

I would stay away from squatting, only because I read an article on it causing problems in youths. However, I've read nothing of the sort in regards to the deadlift. That being said, I would have someone knowledgeable teach you that lift. You don't want to short change yourself when it comes to form on that particular movement.

[thenewguy23]

creatine stunting growth wow, where do these things come from!!

nice gym work, 65 reps of bench and 74 reps of leg press is a tonne of volume good stuff.

just start squating now.

lol yeah, and I also heard that went trying to build strength, increasing volume is very important and I may look into squatting now

[thenewguy23]

I would stay away from squatting, only because I read an article on it causing problems in youths. However, I've read nothing of the sort in regards to the deadlift. That being said, I would have someone knowledgeable teach you that lift. You don't want to short change yourself when it comes to form on that particular movement.

I also feel a bit cautious about squatting too, and maybe I'll have to research it more before I do them

[thenewguy23]

Back from training, so tired, will post the training session tomorrow!

[thenewguy23]

8/5/12

Tuesday - Club Rugby Training

Posting this late, been quite busy lately and honestly could not be bothered but I'm finally typing this up. Today was basically all based on running, endurance, speed etc. And I actually thought I was going to collapse at one point. The session was run by our coach and a London Broncos academy player to kind of give us a basic taste of what they do, even though are training is nothing to theirs.


Warm Up

We started off straight away with suicides at a sprint, I knew that this would be a longgg training session:

50M Suicides (split into 5) x 5 times

Passing along a line with lines of 4 people

Then we did some sprint intervals around the pitch - sprint for 50m, slow jog 50m, slow jog around the pitch by the goal posts, sprint 50m then jog 50m.

Tackle Pad Work

After all of that we did some exercises with tackle pads. People on the pads were in pairs and there were 3 pairs set out in front of us.

Breaking Tackles from the pads - We did this 5 times and if it wasn't done at game speed we had to run the pitch

Leg Drives - We had to hit the pads hard and then drive our legs to try and break through them.

Resistance Leg Drives - After the pad leg drives we got into pairs and we had to hold each other off by their shoulders for 5 seconds and then let them go and sprint for 10m. The guy I was with is a straight BEAST, he's shorter than me and is quite stocky and muscular and he reminds me of a ray rice/maurice jones drew and he's just so powerful and fast. Was hard holding him off and he always got low when running.

Sprints.

Coach then set out a lane of 50m and I knew that we'd be sprinting. The 50m were split into 5 sets of 10m, we got into pairs and did this:

5x10m sprints
5x20m sprints
5x30m sprints
5x40m sprints
5x50m sprints

This was crazy since your sprinting 50m and then have to jog back fast 50m! By the time we got near the end nobody was sprinting though and I was barely alive. Once we were done We ran the pitch and then got a drink. Downed two 500ml bottles of water in like 1min and a half, but I also poured some on myself lol.

Practice Game and Core

Then we played a 7 on 7 game for about 20mins which was quite good, scored one try.

Finished training session with a core workout - killer!

We did:

Planking
Crunches
Push ups
And we raised our legs up while we lied on the floor in a crucifix position.

Motivation

[scott_donald]

jumping in...

lol stunting growth...

[thenewguy23]

jumping in...

lol stunting growth...

thanks for coming in and is it the lifting which stunts growth or incorrect form?

[scott_donald]

thanks for coming in and is it the lifting which stunts growth or incorrect form?

lifting shouldn't stunt growth unless it results in injuries to the growth plates...

at your age - keep things simple... basic exercises working on form over strength...

run - working on speed, speed endurance, endurance, agility, jumping...

[Raxcoe]

Good training man. I'm going to start training my core myself because I've heard that to be good at football you need a stable core. If you have any pointers/exercises that you guys do tell me. Like how many reps/sets of a certain exercise. Thanks

[thenewguy23]

lifting shouldn't stunt growth unless it results in injuries to the growth plates...

at your age - keep things simple... basic exercises working on form over strength...

run - working on speed, speed endurance, endurance, agility, jumping...

ok thanks, Repped

[thenewguy23]

Good training man. I'm going to start training my core myself because I've heard that to be good at football you need a stable core. If you have any pointers/exercises that you guys do tell me. Like how many reps/sets of a certain exercise. Thanks

Well when we work core we usually go till failure on each exercises and do them for 3 sets. Good exercises are like crunches, planks, lying toe touches etc. also remember that there is more to core than abs and things like sprinting could also help.

[thenewguy23]

Okay so I never posted my game yesterday because I was too tired and I had cousins round, we won 57 - 14 or something like that, will write this. In full later

[thenewguy23]

No training today was called off due to a crazy thunderstorm, don't think I have a match on Saturday so I will be lifting that day instead

[thenewguy23]

Just weighed myself, new night weight is 145 and 65.9 kg, bulk is coming along well, slow and steady. Also people in my school were saying my arms had gotten bigger (started wearing short sleeve shirts again) so that good too. Funny thing is my arms aren't big they've just grown a lot due to me lifting more

[johnwall2]

I subscribed and followed brah. cheers

[mlift11]

Well when we work core we usually go till failure on each exercises and do them for 3 sets. Good exercises are like crunches, planks, lying toe touches etc. also remember that there is more to core than abs and things like sprinting could also help.

My recommendation would probably be to do some weighted core work, then. After all, you're training for strength, so why do low weight high reps?

[thenewguy23]

My recommendation would probably be to do some weighted core work, then. After all, you're training for strength, so why do low weight high reps?

yeah that's true, will start adding that into my workout

[thenewguy23]

I have decided I'm not going to the gym today but I will be doing some plyos instead

[StrongWTFbrah]

as long as you're doing something it's all good brah

[aightje]

nice lol

[Kakal]

as long as you're doing something it's all good brah

this

[CH3WYYY]

I also feel a bit cautious about squatting too, and maybe I'll have to research it more before I do them

Definitely get into squatting, probably my favourite excercise. Awesome for building leg mass and it will help you in rugby. As for getting the form right I advise you watch some videos on squatting, after that the form should be pretty obvious. You want to go to at least parallel (legs at 90 degrees) or further, if you can't go to parallel then lower the weight. If you're really struggling with form, film yourself squatting and post it on the forum and ask people to critique your form. Gl with your goals!

[thenewguy23]

Definitely get into squatting, probably my favourite excercise. Awesome for building leg mass and it will help you in rugby. As for getting the form right I advise you watch some videos on squatting, after that the form should be pretty obvious. You want to go to at least parallel (legs at 90 degrees) or further, if you can't go to parallel then lower the weight. If you're really struggling with form, film yourself squatting and post it on the forum and ask people to critique your form. Gl with your goals!

thanks, appreciate all the info, will rep on rc

[thenewguy23]

Rugby training today, gonna be so hard! It's 25 degrees outside and humid too, will post back the log tonight or tommorow

[jd007914]

In. Keep it up brah!

[thenewguy23]

22/5/12

Tuesday - Club Rugby Training

Ok, I'm posting this late, been very busy with school and stuff. Anyway the focus of this training session was ENDURANCE, they got us running low right off the bat and then we did some more game based stuff.


Warm Up

We started off straight away with suicides at a sprint, I knew that this would be a longgg training session:

50M Suicides (split into 5) x 5 times

Passing along a line with lines of 4 people

Then we did some jogging around the entire training ground, every time we had ran 200m we dropped down for an exercise. They were:

- 50 situps
- 25 pushups
- 20 burpees

Sprinting

Coach then set out a lane of 40m and I knew that we'd be sprinting. The 40m were split into 2 sets of 20m, we got into fours and did this:

Ankle flicks for 20m - Jog for 20m - x3
Butt kicks for 20m - Jog for 20m - x3
Kareokes for 20m - Jog for 20m - x3
Jog to 20m - Jog back 20m - Sprint 20m - x3
Flat out sprints - x5

This was a killer, thought I would literally collapse but i toughed it out.

Practice Game

We then had a full pitch practice game for 15 mins, this was very good, hardly got touches though because I was out on the wing

Core

We did:

Planking
Crunches
Push ups
And we raised our legs up while we lied on the floor in a crucifix position.

Positional drills

Me and the other winger then got called by the coach to practice kicking drills with the kickers, I basically ran 20m over and over for about 15 reps. Was pretty good though

[thenewguy23]

Had our game today, we lost. Was a crappy game, I hardly got the ball and only had on good run. Have another game next week, we NEED to improve we are 3 - 4 this year and need to get better if we're going to the playoffs

[thenewguy23]

Had a Borough Athletics Competition yesterday. My year group ended up winning out of about 12 schools. I didn't even intend on going but my coach said that if I wanted to he could get me out of school if I ran the relay so I accepted and we ended up 2nd in the relay and first in our heat. Now have rugby training in an hour and it's 27 degrees, gonna be so exhausting!

[thenewguy23]

There were also some beast athletes there, one guy was in year 8, about 2 inches shorter and ran 100m in 11.3 at age 12 or 13! And another guy who was a year 10 ran it in 10.43 sec, left guys in the dust and then looked back just to rub it in!