On 24/03/2001, John Sinclair<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
<< After eighteen years of first team rugby and three as a coach and then a
further two years as a rugby referee.Interposed with two years as the
Physiotherapist with two senior professional rugby teams in the United
Kingdom..... I have yet to see a rugby player squat on a rugby pitch. >>
***Nor have I seen any rugby player ever do bench presses, pushups, pullups,
isolated rotator cuff exercises, machine exercises, knee extensions, prone
leg curls, high repetition situps or many other exercises that are done in
supplementary training programmes for rugby! That sort of argument is
superfluous, a 'non sequitur'. If it were true, then there would be no need
whatsoever for any supplementary training for any sport.
This is a common misconception about supplementary training - training is for
the purpose of enhancing certain motor qualities (such as maximal strength,
strength endurance, peak power, rate of force development and strength
flexibility), not simply for improving performance in a given supplementary
motor act. That is also why there is so much nonsense written and spoken
about so-called 'functional training'. Supplementary training is for
enhancing specific motor, metabolic and psychological qualities, not to
imitate or simulate actual sporting movements -that is what is called sports
TRAINING. The sport itself imparts those specific motor skills - that is
what is called sports PRACTICE. One should be very careful not to confuse
training and practice (and, of course, rehabilitation).
Dr Mel C Siff
Denver, USA
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Supertraining/
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