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Thu 13 Oct 2011 | 04:44
Brad Thorn - Building Blocks - Parts 1 & 2

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Posted By: Grant Constable

12 Comments

  • jdizzle
    6:26 PM 08/12/2011

    Yea, but he is dense, built like a rock... I wouldn go so far as to say he is lifting light weights either!!

  • jdizzle
    5:53 PM 06/12/2011

    What an absolute beast of a man!! Does anyone know the music in Part 1 actually?...

  • plarah
    6:52 PM 15/10/2011

    Search for videos of the Frank brothers in the gym, I think they practice Cross Fit... so they're really not bad at olympic lifts. That includes olympic squatting.

  • plarah
    6:49 PM 15/10/2011

    Awesome player, I'd really love to see him lift the Webb-Ellis cup.

  • redyeti
    5:09 PM 15/10/2011

    The terrible form comment was aimed at the England training, not Thorn's; his form was excellent. I especially enjoyed seeing a proper parallel squat for the first time from a rugby player

  • redyeti
    5:03 PM 15/10/2011

    One rep maxes, or heavy doubles and triples are very good for building maximal power output. It's how powerlifters and Olympic lifters train their core lifts (they also do lots of higher volume assistance work, usually). Not sure how appropriate that is for a rugby player; and when it's done with such terrible form and range-of-motion there doesn't seem to be a huge amount of point...

  • flyingpepper
    2:54 AM 15/10/2011

    guessing the max one rep is just another approach to training, like training to failure instead of punch out the same number of rep and sets each time. It is easy to get stuck on the same weight etc. and see little improvement if you always do that.

  • rugbydump
    12:00 PM 14/10/2011

    Loving the feedback. Had some great messages on twitter from those who enjoyed the videos. Both the guy who created it, and Brad himself will be very pleased. Cheers all, keep it positive.

  • redyeti
    11:27 AM 14/10/2011

    I love how his 'deep' squat (apparently deeper than the other guys) was just about parallel...

  • flyingpepper
    7:58 AM 14/10/2011

    Think it is safe to say having seen some stats on players in this world cup the gap between size, thus strength of forwards and backs is the smallest its been.

    Agree with Curious the weights did seem low but it was perfect form.

  • rich_w
    9:50 PM 13/10/2011

    All about the core. I guess I probably would have expected him to lift more, especially in the squat (although they were fucking deep). But in a game environment, when you in the rough stuff in a ruck or maul, core strength is key.

    Re: Michael, Haskell is just a monster. Don't think that was to outdo anyone, he has a load of workout vids on youtube and an iphone app with workouts and they are savage. Worth checking out for some inspiration come gym time.

  • mackurdi
    7:10 PM 13/10/2011

    Interesting

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