First, I posted this a day late. Forgive me!
We lost our first rugby match of the season, but we were out muscled, out disciplined, and their whole team is far more experienced and just plain bigger. It all fell apart when Blazen, our backs Captain, sat out the final ten minutes. They took our 13 point lead and crushed it into the dust without him on the field and we fell 21-32. I had a try, a couple good tackles, and took contact pretty well, but the pitch was really, really in not good condition. My knee and ankles got torqued to Bemidji State University and back as 12 guys dove right into my legs whenever there was a pile up, or twisting an ankle on a poor form tackle, then I punched a team mate by accident as I flew into a tackle, took a wicked stiff arm into the throat, and everyone was bleeding out their nose or from their lips. It was tons of fun!
Not to be a pansy (I limped off the field after the defeat to the after party Brat fry), that night, less than 6 hours after the conclusion of the game, I was back in Mark's barn, and we had a guest with us this evening. Liam joined us for our workout. Liam is 17, 6 feet tall, 175 lbs, and in not overly good shape because he punctured his lungs falling out of a tree two years ago. We decided to go upper body heavy on the evening because of my swollen ankle and knee, so we warmed up with...
1- a)15 pull ups b)jump roping and c) fast push ups. The rest of the night went somewhat slow as we determined which workouts to do with Liam, and which to avoid with my twacked to Hades leg, so their was quite a bit of breaking between sets to deliberate, but we did...
2- a) 40 shoulder shrugs with 5 gallon buckets of feed in each hand b) myotatic sit ups c) air squats.
3- This set was the same as the previous
4- a) 40 pushups b) squat press with the bag of corn feed c) jump roping for me, double jacks for the other guys.
5- same as 4, but the pushups were as fast as you could go (Liam did 16 of his allotted 17, so I made up for him by doing 31, then Mark finished with the 25)
6- a) 10 band assisted oblique crunch/chest fly each side b) KB swings with the 35lbs dumbbell c) bent over row with the 40lbs KB weight.
7- same set, but with 12 reps of the bands each arm
8- after some slight deliberation, we decided to head into the black of the night and run Mark's driveway in a relay. We went about 90-95% (or as fast as sprained ankles could control, sorry for being a pansy) and ran the U-bend he has for a driveway. When we got to the other end of it, we stopped, turned around and ran back. As soon as the first person (Liam, in this case) turned, the second person (Mark) took off. Once 1 (Liam) returned to the starting line, 3 (Gavin... oh, that is me!) ran. When 2 finished, 1 went again, then 2 went when 3 came back, etc. It was a good workout, and we spent twice as much time running as resting. We did a total of 15 sets between the 3 of us (it was to be 5 each, but Liam didnt go past 4, so Mark ran an extra one to make up for it). We went back into the barn and finished off with our standard...
9- Max outs! Pull ups (M-15, G-21, L-6) then pushups (M-57, which was a new record!!!, G-76, which broke Marks record... sorry! L-30). We called it a night, had a drink, and went home. What a night!
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