Exactly you can have the best training in the world but if you lack the genetic gifts you are only going to get as fast as your limitations allow regardless of how hard or well you train.

in that case then , one day we will get to the stage where you can get match fit in a gym.

all it takes is a few simulators to hit the body as if its being tackled, and other similar machines.

they said we would never make a nuclear weapon at one time as well.

as science progresses, so does progress.........or summat.

only thing i can think of against my own theory is that as we progress, the game will progress (as its been doing) and players will get fitter and need to be more match fit to cope, thereby always keeping one step in front of scientific advances.

Your body doesn't know you are playing RL.


If you simulate everything then you will become "match fit".


However, as I have said, given it's much easier to get 95% there and finish the last 5% off by actually playing the game, why would you?

It doesnt carry over very well from sport to sport, when lance armstrong completed the new york marathon, he said it was the hardest thing he had ever done!

Not really sports are they. More a pastime along with dominos and fishing.

You ever kisssed a Girl son?

they both come on sky SPORTS......along with fishing, but not dominoes.

i do agree somewhat Pemps....there are some borderline sports imo...the above, curling, golf, speed walking, normal walking

.......question is..where do you draw the line between sport and pastime?

buts thats maybe for another thread (close season?).

left you a PM jonh.

Are you trying to say that there's another activity other than RL that involves a low intensity build up followed by periods of intermittent endurance and recovery, rapidly developing into high intensity sessions until the participant peaks just when it matters?

If you simulate everything you will be playing the sport.

I played about 20 mins for the Riversiders a week last Sunday and my ribs are still knacking me.

I am definitely not match fit (but will get there I should add!) whereas the rest of them were playing in the heat at Irlam a week later with absolutely mortal hangovers! Fair play fellas

That's a good example for me!

The problem is that firstly you have to combine so many different disciplines to make it virtually impossible, and to compound that as training conditioning improves and style of game changes demads on the body change, so basically you are forever playing catch up. There is no set finish line it is a line that is always moving forward as training moves forwards.

If anyone is interested in reading further on this I would suggest reading anything by Vern Gambetta.

Erm, for future reference when you refer to the riversiders could you call them "The RugbyLeagueLegends.com Riversiders"?

Thanks

My bad, duly noted!

in that case then , one day we will get to the stage where you can get match fit in a gym.

all it takes is a few simulators to hit the body as if its being tackled, and other similar machines.

they said we would never make a nuclear weapon at one time as well.

as science progresses, so does progress.........or summat.

only thing i can think of against my own theory is that as we progress, the game will progress (as its been doing) and players will get fitter and need to be more match fit to cope, thereby always keeping one step in front of scientific advances.'"

Not possible at all. I'm a lecturer in Sport in Manchester and have never known any athlete to get match fit at the start of the year in the gym alone.

no offence mate, but i'd rather be kissing girls

Mel Sif is quite good however maybe a little dated now.

Charles Staley also has some good info out there but has gone a little mainstream now!

Jonh,

what are your thoughts on the Crossfit methodology, getting quite a lot of press at the moment?

Crossfit is simply another way of rebranding an old basic model of periodization IMHO.

Supertraining by Mel Siff is a fantastic book and should be the cornerstone of anyone wanting to take research in this area seriously, although it certainly should not be the first book you read as it is very hard going.

I'm surprised you gym monkeys can read.

We cant supertraining is only ten pages thick!

I wish, i had to work on my strength in the gym just to carry that bugger about with me.

Thats where brains over brawn comes in, I got mine on a pdf!

However i think i would have put my back out if id had to carry the book around all day!

Not just a pretty face you know!

Cogratulations you have just taken geekdome to a whole new level!

Yeah but amongst all the different types of geeks, sports geeks are still the ones who all the other geeks want to be like!