Bulking while playing rugby?

eroo

Well, I've been bulking for the last few months and I've made good progress. I'm taking up rugby for the first time in college at the mo. Just wondering what ye're opinions would be on continuing bulking while playing rugby. Would it be possible/ advisable? The reason I wish to continue bulking is I have made progress, and would like to continue! Can it be done?



EDIT: Btw, I train 2 days a week(upper, lower).

Esse85

I would of taught bulking would be kept to mainly off season.

It depends to a certain degree on what position your playing too id imagine.

itsallaboutheL

Snatches, C&Js, High Pulls etc as all rugby squads do in seanson would be fine. wouldnt recommend any massive heavy lifting outside of sundays maybe assumming you are training tues and thurs for rugby.

tribulus

I don't really know anything about rugby or training for it but I'm guessing as you're just starting off the team or standard you're playing at won't be all that high?

In which case it could certainly be possilbe provided you structure your training well, look after your recovery and account for the extra calories needed.

Whether it's advisable or not I'll leave to someone else because as I've said I know very little about rugby training.

itsallaboutheL

what you have to keep in mind is you WILL be very sore wednesday friday and sunday provided ur training tuesday and thursday with a match on saturday.

Therefore it is difficult to train heavy (or at all depending on level of pain and DOMs) on the following days. What i have done, which may seem nuts is lift heavy straight after training, which means you'll be able to recuperate from both on the following days......that or do the oly style stuff on the following evening...

my 2c

LightningBolt

To be honest if you're only starting out I don't imagine the training will be too taxing. You can easily double up. Playing club and college ball and doing 4 40-50min gym sessions mon-thurs in the mornings. Once you allow time to eat properly and rest when needed you can easily bulk.

Hanley

Unless you're training with high reps, chances are you can wake up the next day without feeling TOO DOM'd so with that in mind you'd probably get a way with it. Especially since you're only training 2x a week.

d-gal

Try and maintain your weight for the first month of the season and then you can try and bulk a bit more. That will be hard anyways because of the amount of extra calories you will be burning. No matter how intense the sessions will be you will be aching the next morning due to the simple fact you won't be used to the movement patterns of the game, not to mention the hard hits (especially if your playing the forwards). Expect sore quads, shoulders and neck.
Keep doing low reps for strength and once your strength has gone up satisfactorily (think thats a word) you can move to power exercises such as snatches and cleans.
If your doing 2 weight sessions then try and do them early in the week. If you train tuesday, thursday and match saturday, then do weights monday & wedenesday. If you train wed&fri and match sunday, then weights tuesday and friday. Do not train day before or day after match. rest and recover.

Good luck with it and enjoy!