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That's awesome! So I guess the men's and women's teams have identical win records now Related, practice for us last night concentrated much more on proper defensive formation. Coach wants to focus on being more of an 'up' defense rather than 'slide', but we'll see how that goes. Nice to have enough numbers to actually run back lines at each other rather than practicing against our own shadows.

If it includes calf raises, I won't include it. As far as mass building programs go however, you would be looking more at bodybuilder, high rep style workouts.

Not sure if it's cultural or just our club. We don't have a full time trainer right now, so if the older guys wanna sit out due to aches n pains, ain't no one around to officially call them out on being pansies. Trust me, I'm hoarse after every game. The problem was that we had a right-side wing who's literally played his first couple games this season, and he's not gotten the idea quite yet. Some strange reason, we did a heaping of defensive drills on Tuesday... Hmmmmmmmmmm. But yeah, before they picked out that weakness, we held them pretty well. Then they found it and just kept hitting it the whole first half. Second half was a lot closer though. It's funny, when I practice with the Ontario Blues, they don't concentrate on position specific stuff unless it's specific back plays vs line-outs or scrums. They encourage everyone to just be 'ruggers' in general, which I agree with. A forward should be able to hit a gap off the flyhalf, and a wing needs to be able to ruck someone out. Big emphasis on late runners to exploit out of position defense. How'd you guys do anyway?

It's something that most EVERY player in the club complains about on occasion, us fit 'uns and fatties alike. It simply makes no sense to not try and develop skills. Guys n gals who want to work fitness and be in prime physical condition are going to do so regardless of club activity. Ain't none of the big guys getting any smaller or faster by running forever, they just end up sitting half the drills out. My 2c at least (rounded to zero nowadays >.>)

Bah, lost again this weekend beaten by poor shift defense, but it's frustrating. Our coach doesn't seem to be able to keep up with the fact that we have a lot of talented and fit guys playing, but don't have a whole ton of rugby experience. We need more focus on developing these skills instead of running our asses off practice after practice. Getting a tad frustrated.

Oi, thought you said you'd lost some weight though? Been quite the last week or so. First I took time off from lifting due to the elbow hyper-extension, and without a game last weekend we just cavorted about a bit. Came down ill Saturday night though and to sit quietly and feverishly hallucinate for the last few days instead of being productive though. so Finally got in this morning, hopefully won't affect training tonight: Deadlifts: 365 X 2 HS BP: 268 X 3, 248 X 5 Rows: 200 X 5, 180 X 7 Squats: 275 X 5, 225 X 8 DB inc BP: 65 X 8 Pullups: 10 Just trying to get back into it (again...), so a bit more intensity tomorrow night hopefully.

This past week has averaged 15 degrees and rain in Canada. We're suppooooooosed to be like mid twenties and beautiful. When did we become England?

Just as well we didn't actually! Not only did we get our first win of the season, 20-19, yours truly had a hand in the scoring play! Our OC takes the ball for a nice lil 30m scamper, I and our right side wing keep up for support. Gets gang tackled around the 22, and manages to pop me the ball about five meters back. Scamper around outside only to see we have a nice little two on one with their winger, and the rest is history. Felt pretty sweet. No workout today, Blues practice at 6:30.

Work out early-ish today to give more time off before the game tomorrow. Deadlifts: 375 X 2, 355 X 4, 315 X 6 DB BP: 75 X 7, 65 X 10 DB Row: 90 X 7 Hyperextension started acting up again, so did some incline push-ups and pull-ups and jetted. Will probably need a tape job for the game.

Remind me at practice and I'll give you contact info for the major Realtor for the area just south of St. George campus. September start dates, year round lease, and reasonable accomodation for students (AKA not terribly expensive but also no defects like infestations or faulty appliances). Only catch is that they usually sell multi-unit housing, like 3+ people.

Sounds like he's got a case of 'old man strength'. As the body matures and settles into it's size, stuff re-organizes into more efficient/strong pathways that just naturally make most old guys stronger. Just remember, that'll be you one day

Hmm two things could be happening, but the more likely one you won't like. First, as everyone said, you could be recomping, but with hormone issues, unlikely. HOWEVER. Hormone issues can play right into this one. Fat re-distribution. I notice you only really track the tummy measurements, but fat might be falling off the waist to re-settle elsewhere in the body. Remember, hormones, history, and training can all be part and parcel to fat distribution. Might entirely be possible that due to hormone regulations being off, you are changing somatotype.

Monday couldn't work out, tuesday was intense/hyperextended my left elbow a little, so vol/int was a little light today: HSBP: 268 X 4, 248 X 6, 198 X 10 Squats: 295 X 4, 275 X 6, 225 X 8 Rows (SA): 7 X 90, 10 X 80 Inc DB BP: 65 X 9 Pull-ups: 10 Pistol Squats: 10/10

Geez, I check this once a day and 50 bajillin responses come up! Withdrawal symptoms, IME, end up being worst when a) cutting back drastic amounts and when the caffeine is solving some underlying problem. Common lesser known things caffeine will do besides wake you up are: - increases circulating levels of serotonin, dopamine, epinephrine. This can mask symptoms of depression, so cutting coffee can make you sad for physiological reasons, not just WAH WANT COFFEE reasons - reduces adenosine bonding by competing for bonding sites, making it more available for ATP synthesis and reducing it's blood pressure increasing effects. This can mask poor cardio fitness and blood pressure problems, which can come out in the form of headaches So yeah, removing these effects really fast can cause these sorts of symptoms, and if they masked underlying problems, they might not go away.

Oh Halo. I've always had Ps3 as opposed to Xbox so I was always more into COD When DOES your season occur again? Think you mentioned it some eons ago.