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Quote from: Mutumbo000 on January 30, 2017, 06:31:06 am

Fitness motivation:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GFyIEoZOok" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GFyIEoZOok</a>

some DOPE hill training in there.. damn.

i want to try hills again.. need to heal up first tho

Yeah it's a pretty cool documentary!

The last time my rugby club won a Premier Grade championship was in 2007 and half our players that year were Fijians. They're not as big as Samoans or Tongans but they are usually taller and speedsters with a lot of skill and heart. I was playing U18's back then but at the time my club https://www.facebook.com/Souths-Rugby-Union-239919789376/ had a great team. Our President at the time was a New Zealand businessman and he recruited Fijians from overseas and we used to pay them and he would provide them with jobs at his factory. Even today those players you saw in the documentary are on $US 15,000 a year and they are World Seven Championship winners and Olympic Gold medallists http://fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=330616
We've had Fijian international representatives play for us and I've been fortunate to play with 3 of them and they were hands down the best players I've ever played alongside with.

Unfortunately the President left to go interstate in 2011 and since then our club has turned from being a club that recruited international players and was one of the best of the best in the state to a drinking club with a rugby problem. Our President since 2011 has been a Maori guy who is also a businessman but he doesn't believe in recruiting. From a business point of view he's done a great job gathering sponsors and creating social events etc., but from a rugby perspective our Premier Grade and Reserve grades have got worse and worse each year since 2011. Take tonight for example. It's pre-season training and we have teams in Premier Grade, Reserve Grade and 4th Grade. There's 22 players in a rugby team so we should have at least 66 players out and about. However, only 13 players including myself turned out tonight so our club is definitely in dire straights and that's why it's been really hard for me to come out and commit since 2012/2013 (along with job issues, depression and alcohol abuse that I was going through) because it's just a social club these days.

The only positive thing is this year we have a new coach from New Zealand and he knows his stuff, but all the players I was playing with pre-2013 have either quit (lack of interest or retirement) or moved interstate to play in more competitive comps. The sad thing is we don't even have juniors coming up as they either quit or desert us to move to other clubs that have a better culture. But yeah hopefully we can get some more people out to trainings and turn the culture of the club around and become a force to be reckoned with again- Getting a few Fijian guns would help 

Sprints-
ME 3x100m 8 minutes rest between sets

Rugby-
Practiced my passing for 30 minutes.

Bench-
barx12
60x12
82.5x6
102.5x5
97.5x5
92.5x5
82.5x6

Chin Ups-
13x2

Rows-
40x12
60x12
80x12
100x7
95x7
90x7

I didn't want to wake up today I was wrecked. Every morning I get out of bed and my achilles tendons in both legs are sore and aching. After walking around for a couple of minutes the pain goes away. Same as when I train the pain goes away after I warm up and I can't feel them until I stop exercising and then they hurt again. Even my hamstrings feel sore today. I'm going to the ocean and having a swim after work and just going to have today as a recovery. My body needs to adapt to rugby training and the increased workload. I've been eating healthier and keeping off the piss this week so hopefully I can lose a bit of bodyfat as well. I set myself back over Christmas/New Years with my body composition as I ate/drank way too much.

Have you tried some slow SL eccentric/DL concentric calf raises with a dumbbell? 2-3 sets x 10-12 reps. Calf muscles might not be strong enough to support your training load at your BW atm. Eccentric strengthening seems to be the only thing that really helps achilles tendinopathy.

This will sound amazingly stupid but with all the issues I've had with my calves/achilles I've never done any direct calf training!!!  was doing calf raises as rehab but as soon as they feel 'better' I just forget about doing it. I will start doing calf raises every day just with BW to start off with. Having large calves has never appealed to me so I've never trained them directly

Bench-
barx12
60x12
85x6
105x3 should have gone for 4 reps!
90x8
85x8

Chin Ups-
20kgx6
10kgx10
bwx12

Rugby training-
2 hours of fitness and drills.

Calf Raises-
bwx12x3

Box Squat-
60x5
100x5
120x1
102.5x3x3 speed

Chin Ups-
bwx14
bwx13

ME Sprints-
3x100m

Calf Raises-
12x3

Do you feel anything from doing bodyweight calf raises? I know most of the forum members that do them load them up pretty heavy with a barbell. I think I started my calf training at 84kgs 3x12 with the balls of my feet on a 12kg plate for fuller ROM, focusing on controlled eccentric.

I feel like since you have a background of sprints which hit the calves pretty hard your calves would already be strong.

Bodyweight- 83.1

Box Squat-
60x5
100x5
120x3
130x2 wtf is wrong with me. This was a struggle I would've failed the 3rd rep if I'd attempted it...
115x3

Rows-
42.5x15
62.5x15
72.5x15
82.5x15

Rugby Training-
2 hours did a bit of contact stuff as well in this session. Kind of ruined my training as I had 8 beers after rugby. I'm not going to drink at all this weekend. Just need to limit drinking to 1 day a week max.