Forgot to log Tuesday's rugby practice: conditioning and touch, did okay.
Also I got a no for the job. Fuck 'em, I'm already invited for several other tests...
Rugby practice tonight: More weird games and a lot of touch. Can't wait to get back into contact training but I guess some work on the beautiful parts of the game will only make me better.
-My weekly training schedule will probably look something like this in the future:
Sunday-Squat
Monday-Bench
Tuesday-Rugby
Wednesday-DL
Thursday-Press
Friday-Rugby
Saturday-Rest
Rugby practice: Handling drills, more handling drills, some touch. Not as much running which is nice and some talk on possible tactics for the next season.
Rugby practice in 30+°C heat is...special. Some conditioning, lots of plays to get used to the new structure, had a few nice touches, no major fuckups. Am happy.
For sure. But I will have to figure out a smart way to lift once the season starts and we start training with proper contact, I'm already struggling with proper recovery and that will make it much worse. Speaking of recovery, I'll be spending the next week away from home with some relatives as my niece has her first day of school. No lifting, no rugby, but I'll be doing something.
-Worst training session I had in years. Way too warm, undercaffeinated, underfed, stressed out, tired and when I arrived at the gym I found that my shaker had opened and there was whey protein isolate powder everywhere in there.
So my gym had to close for four weeks due to people not doing what they were supposed to 'rona-wise. Did BJJ and a bunch of rugby during that. Today was my first day back.
Squat
145x4
125x2x5
In other news: The Summer of George will come to an end in October. I scored a pretty well-paid job at a big company, doing what I did the last two years. Free food, pretty nice gym at the offices, I'm happy as fuck.
Rugby practice: Some lineouts, some scrums, walkthroughs for the weekend. Solid work done at scrumtime where I got the better of one of the first team's props, which was quite lovely. I'll also be co-captain on Sunday. First time ever doing such a thing, but I'll be alright.
Pre-season game: We narrowly lost due to the other team having many more subs, but it still was a really good game. Gotta get the structures to really work for us, but set piece was looking pretty good and I got some good hits in. This season will be fun.
I guess I'll call this the Summer of George part two. Gyms opened up again today, rugby practice has been on again since last week.
In the meanwhile I trained at home, high reps with my trusty DBs and my spinning bike mostly. I also lost close to 20kg of weight, most if not all fat. Feels good, especially on the rugby pitch.
I will have rugby practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays and will try to get my strength training, 5/3/1 two days a week, in on Friday and Sunday. I might need to change that once we play again or I get back to doing some BJJ.
Recovery after rugby practice has been much, much better since losing weight but it's still a lot of work and a lot of time spent over 150BPM.
We'll see.
Training maxes are Squat 150kg, Bench 80kg, DL 170kg, Press 67.5kg. Squat/Bench and DL/Press with a little assistance.
-First proper lifting session since December
-Still really feeling yesterday's practice and it's fucking weird using the second to last hole in my lifting belt all of a sudden
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