[Todd Bennett]

As the weight is slowly coming down, I feel my sprint speed increasing at the mo. I need to work one more conditioning session in, in the AM I think, try and keep increasing performance until the end of the season!

Lifts are all still going up at a good rate, speed and overall fitness improving, played 80 mins on saturday and felt like I could do more… so now I know that I can last I need to look for more work on the pitch, I think!

Still not getting food intake 100%, eating about 80% well. Sorting that out a bit at a time!

What do you think of prowler work for HIIT, fat loss and its carryover to RU? I was thinking it could cross over quite well for mauling, clearing out and of course scrummaging. We have one of them at the gym and with the mornings getting lighter, it might be worth having a session or two a week on that.

[Todd Bennett]

Cheers for reply JP.

Been doing legs on a Wed as I find my knees are shot to pieces on a monday after a game! When my weight comes down that should eliminate that problem to a certain degree, I dropped about 13lbs since new year upping my volume a bit from the 5/3/1 template, basically going back to an old program I had off you. Lifts going up very nicely.

I will add the extra conditioning sessions in Monday and Wednesday like you said, hopefully that’ll help the weight come down that little bit more and help with my CV in a game. I’m up to playing around 60 minutes a game at the minute full tilt, would like to be an 80 minute man by the end of the season again… but not just going through the motions!

Extra conditioning via Hill sprints, sled work, prowler etc?