Dwain Chambers RL Debut

yeah. hes a real credit to his sport. if thats what he likes then he should stick to it. maybe he thought rugby was just running fast with a ball in your hands. funny thing is, they dope test in rugby too. sorry dwain..

yeah, i actually dont like dwain chambers at all. im glad hes old. i just love track and field, hence my username

haha you are so dumb

sprinters are in wayyy better shape than rugby playres

sprinters have the best toloarance for lactic acid, which is required in up tempo sports

I'm dumb? 1) 100m sprinters only run for 10 seconds a race so they use the phosphocreatine system to re-make ATP for energy release not the lactic acid system so the chances that they train specifically for lactic acid tolerance is low. 2) rugby league involves constant running for 40 minutes meaning players use aerobic glycolysis & the krebs-cycle reactions to re-make ATP for energy, not the lactic acid system, so having a higher lactic acid tolerance is of little or no benefit. Who's dumb now?

yes you are stupid

1. sprinters train from running intervals of 500s, 300s, and 200s, with low rest. obviously the performing isnt as hard, its the training
2. rugby players start and stop


yes you are dumb. i know everything you said, all you did was try to make yourself sound smart.
if rugby was all out running for 40 minutes, then i would agree, but its not at all

they start and stop but not for long enough to outlast the oxygen debt which is necessary to return to use of the lactic acid energy system. And the training you say does not fulfill the principle of specificity (in principles of training) and therefore will not affect a sprinters time as it is not really related to the event, so if this is how you're training i suggest you re-think how you train

@PowerSprinter
the lactic acid system can only work for 2 minutes at a time then it needs to recieve a period of almost complete inactivity for about 1 minute. There is NOT a 1 minute break every 2 minutes in rugby. After that you have to use the aerobic system, and seeing as sprinters do not train this they would struggle

ok, i disagree with that, but listen

even if you were right about the lactic acid system, here is a typical sprinters practice

warm up, including 800m jog, plyometrics

300m, 100m, 100m, 100m sprints. only 1 minute in between for rest

then rest for 5 minutes an do it over again


thats definatel aerobic training son.

@PowerSprinter
no it's not. during high intensity exercise the body needs to remake ATP fast. The aerobic system is a complex, time consuming series of reactions and cannot remake ATP fast enough to cope with sprinting. The 1 minute rest you mentioned is long enough to provide partial recovery of the phospho-creatine and Lactic Acid systems and by doing the exercise you mentioned you are training those systems. The principle of overload is aplied through allowing only a partial recovery

yeah, well then overload applies to rugby games as they dont get full recovery either.
either way, rugby players sprint around the field and take temporary breaks.
sprinters do the same in practice just more extensive and way more intense

and rugby players have to weigh alot

btw, im american and everything i'm saying about rugby players is based off of american football players, is this a bad assumption? are rugby players more like soccer players?