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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Achilles tendon rupture
« on: July 12, 2011, 11:05:40 pm »
So I stopped logging my training about a month ago with a hamstring tear that I was rehabbing. Finally got back to close to full health and started going back out to rugby practice and today I had a partial rupture of my Achilles cutting during practice.

Does anyone have experience with this type of injury? surgery, no surgery? I'm getting it checked out tomorrow.

Also think I might retire temporarily from rugby and do some powerlifting for the next year or so, maybe find some track & field events once I'm fully recovered any suggestions for fun anaerobic t&f events I could try learning would be appreciated too since I think i need more than just 60m indoor to compete recreationally.

 :'( shit's rough but I just have to find something else to enjoy

edit: woops seems like there's already a thread on these, was a pretty weird sensation though, i thought someone had run up behind me and kicked me in the back of the leg, i yelled and turned around but nobody was there. . .

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Heavy Eccentrics
« on: April 13, 2011, 09:53:24 pm »
My university's s@c department likes to use exercise selection and programming that I find questionable at best, they seem to like using the concurrent method with fullbody workouts and some "functional" training stuff. Anyway in one of the lower body strength days prescribed for the rugby team they had them doing heavy back squat negatives with 110% max for four reps, having two spotters assist the weight back up to the starting position.

My thoughts are that if you are weak enough to be able to recover from this sort of training you might as well stick to a simple linear progression and not worry about anything fancy. And if you are strong enough to benefit or need some kind of supramaximal training stimulus you would just burn yourself out and it would be incredibly dangerous to both you and the spotters.  :uhhhfacepalm:

Is there any actual benefit from this type of training or have they gone full retard on this one? 


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