I meant American football, not rugby. Most NFL teams give their players the day after the game off from training. And no NFL team does any type of player training immediately after the game itself - they're too busy tending to player injuries. Sorry for the miscommunication.Bacchus1979 wrote:Interesting comment - one of the reason I had thought about programming my heavy work on the Sunday after matches was because I remembered DeFranco had recommended this as the best time for it. I know t makes for a rough work-out, but I am interested to hear why you disagree.Football players are too beaten up from the game to crawl out of bed on Monday, much less do a heavy workout. By the time they recover from the beating, it's mid week - and time to prepare for the next game
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Stephen, sorry if I wasn't clear - De Franco recommended that for football players. Because of the lack of (quality) material out there for rugby I tend to look at a lot of material that is out there for football players and tweak it. 80 minutes of rugby will put a hell of a beating on you, so the morning afer is pretty similar - though i haven't played football since high-school, so i am sure I used to bounce back a bit better than I can now. 

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He knows a lot more about this stuff that I do, so I'll be quiet. I just have bad memories of trying to squat after running a 10K.Bacchus1979 wrote:Stephen, sorry if I wasn't clear - De Franco recommended that for football players. Because of the lack of (quality) material out there for rugby I tend to look at a lot of material that is out there for football players and tweak it. 80 minutes of rugby will put a hell of a beating on you, so the morning afer is pretty similar - though i haven't played football since high-school, so i am sure I used to bounce back a bit better than I can now.

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