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Ireland Team Talk/Gossip/Rumour Thread IV
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Seanie looks like he packed on even more muscle than he had be before. Jaysus.
That's always the aim when a player gets a long term injury.....the S&C coach will use the time without matches to get the guys bigger, stronger, more powerful etc. It's why the player often looks fat about 6 weeks before they're back playing.....in order to add muscle and get stronger they have to gain a lot of weight, they then shed the excess fat when they get back training fully to reveal the new and improved athlete.....same bodyfat as before but with a few kgs more muscle and much better numbers in the gym.
Clutching at straws yes but still good to see a GPS pack going in, means he probably did the full session bar contact
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Yep, sure when you think of it after a match the body is usually very sore, there's a knock or two, so monday is very much fitness, tuesday usually recovery, weights usually doesn't come into play until later in the week, where as most bodybuilders would be splitting 3-5 days a week. So the silver lining to an injury is more gym time and proper nutritional planning for bulking.
Exactly, typical gym schedule for a pro rugby team is a heavy strength session on Tuesday with the aim of maintaining muscle mass and a power/speed session on Thursday to get the fast twitchers fully fired up for the game. The focus is on maintaining strength/muscle mass and getting the guys ready to play.....there is no chance for the players to actually improve themselves physically in season as doing this would be detrimental to their performance on the pitch.
That's why a long term injury can actually be beneficial. In order to add size and strength the player has to eat more to fuel that growth, the net result here is considerable weight gain with probably 50% of it fat and 50% of it muscle....if he's not going to play for 8 months, then, within reason, he can get a lot fatter in order to facilitate the muscle growth and improved gym performance. When he's back to full fitness, he will tidy up his diet and get back doing fitness work and voila, all the fat gained is shedded and the player is back in prime condition but he's bigger and stronger. Stuart Olding is a good example of this....noticeable larger in the upper body after his cruciate injury.
Apologies if I'm getting off topic here but S&C and nutrition is a big interest of mine so I tend to get carried away anytime it is being discussed here!!
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Exactly, typical gym schedule for a pro rugby team is a heavy strength session on Tuesday with the aim of maintaining muscle mass and a power/speed session on Thursday to get the fast twitchers fully fired up for the game. The focus is on maintaining strength/muscle mass and getting the guys ready to play.....there is no chance for the players to actually improve themselves physically in season as doing this would be detrimental to their performance on the pitch.
That's why a long term injury can actually be beneficial. In order to add size and strength the player has to eat more to fuel that growth, the net result here is considerable weight gain with probably 50% of it fat and 50% of it muscle....if he's not going to play for 8 months, then, within reason, he can get a lot fatter in order to facilitate the muscle growth and improved gym performance. When he's back to full fitness, he will tidy up his diet and get back doing fitness work and voila, all the fat gained is shedded and the player is back in prime condition but he's bigger and stronger. Stuart Olding is a good example of this....noticeable larger in the upper body after his cruciate injury.
Apologies if I'm getting off topic here but S&C and nutrition is a big interest of mine so I tend to get carried away anytime it is being discussed here!!
Question for ya then - do you reckon that additional bulk and muscle will be advantageous for SOB in terms of preventing a third shoulder injury?0 -
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Question for ya then - do you reckon that additional bulk and muscle will be advantageous for SOB in terms of preventing a third shoulder injury?
Bulking up by itself is unlikely to have an impact on the likelihood of a recurrence of the shoulder injury. The important thing is to address whatever lead to the injury.
I was at the game where he injured himself and looking at him when he picked up the injury. It wasn't a direct impact injury - the contact that lead to it looked innocuous which leads me to suspect that there was a relative weakness in there somewhere. I'm just speculating obviously but if I'm right the key thing will be to get that weakness to a point where it's not the weakest link in the chain. Bulking up won't do that and if done incorrectly i.e. without addressing the weakness then it will make the injured area relatively weaker. I'd expect that the Leinster rehab team will know what it's doing though
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