Alvin
March 14, 2007, 5:56am
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joconnor:
these injuries happen, i dont think the extra conditioning necessarily caused them. Look at pal o connell last weekend. He broke a thumb and is out for a good while.
Id love if the ABs did a fly on the wall type documentary that followed their prep for the WC. And specifically focused on the training. Thatd be sooo cool! I wonder what type of numbers would you see?
From an irish POV so far as i know the best bench is prob about 150kg. Steven Keogh current leinster flanker did 165kg when at munster. Stringer has done ~ 120kg
Steven ferris is supposed to be able to shift a lot of weight but i dont know any figures. None of the pack has done over 130kg clean so i doubt any of them can do much over 200kg squat.
I know none of these matter but i love to hear numbers anyway
No idea
Have you seen the video archive from the ‘allblacks’ web page? A number of conditioning video clips you may be interested in - ‘Pushing Tin’ Haymans box squatting etc.
http://www.allblacks.com/index.cfm?layout=mediaArchive
I know a number of professional players in Ireland who can clean +130kg and squat +200kg, but they tend to be younger guys and not in the national team yet!
no23
March 14, 2007, 8:57am
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In most cases its the only the younger guys you could let attempt a C&J!
Of course this has no bearing on whether or not they are strong … and even less on if they cn play rugby!