The Silver Fern

Used rowing for a warm up back when i was weight training.  2:00/500m.  Tried the whole how quickly can i do 2000m thing, never managed to crack 7min, but was bloody close, literally a second or so.  Literally fall off the rower and crawl to a mat and lie down for a couple of mins.  Always on 10, because it was there.<br />
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Could never be arsed to sit on it for that long to do the longer distance stuff.  Myself and a mate used to do minute intervals, a minute flat out, a minutes rest.  Ten times, don't know if it was any good for us but it kind of fits in with the whole rugby specific traning thing, i think.<br />
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If i could be arsed i'd train out here, at 2000m so it would be a pretty good workout.  Ah well, time to go to the pub.<br />
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Oh yeah, if i got the arse pain thing, i'd just get off and stretch before starting again, seemed to work for me.

yeah, twas the 8kg of muscle that pushed it. still, can't spend half my life doing fookin squats, can i?

I probably should have spotted it. :roll: <br />
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I was caught big time there. I actually considered trying it out for all of .2 seconds.... <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' />

Tell me about it. Deadlifts, squats and then lunges. If i put the effort in i struggle to walk the next day. It knocks a bit off my squat but it gets it all done. Workout has 4 upper body exercises as well, and some abs, don't know if it's too long, but it seems to work. Seems better than when i used to split stuff.

Normally depends on what i do first, i'm pretty even at the moment.<br />
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BD, it's just the amount of time you seem to have to spend doing it that would put me off. You could do a lot of other training in the time you were doing hindu squats.

Thank you bartman,<br />
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functional strength? That's the reason you don't have to waste your time doing bicep curls or other isolation exercises. Squats and deadlifts are compound exercises that work multiple muscle groups that you will use during a game of rugby.<br />
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it's no use having strong legs if your lower back folds the first time you try to use them.

Fair enough, spent about half an hour a day and get legs that can lift your own bodyweight, admittedly, quite a few times.<br />
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Or, do a range of squats, deadlifts and lunges, at differing speeds and weights, twice a week. totalling about an hour a week. spend the rest of time building up your aerobic/anearobic fitness for rugby, maybe even doing a few upper body weights.<br />
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I think you're better off with my idea.<br />
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You could do a paper on it, but it depends what you want, strength endurance or a combination of strength, power, speed and endurance.