Apples' Training Reports

[Albert Parker]

No, I know. That's why I was confused why he was mentioned. But I see now it was just a confusion. All cleared up now though.

Yep, in the non-attendees list.You weren't supposed to have seen him accordingly!

 

[legendstatus]

whiskeytown saw him (wells) on the piss again last night with Maxwell

One wonders why in public?


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[jmac70]

whiskeytown saw him (wells) on the piss again last night with Maxwell

Gee you blokes are pathetic.

 

[Saintly Viewed]

Gee you blokes are pathetic.

Yep.

 

[joff]

One wonders why in public?


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Why not?

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

whiskeytown saw him (wells) on the piss again last night with Maxwell

I am not a great fan of Well's recruitment, but nor am I going to climb into a warm bath and sever a vein or two over it.

Though I acknowledge that abstinence from alcohol is popular among at least 20% of the population, including AFL players keen to squeeze every drop of talent from their finely tuned bodies, I don't personally feel the need to worship a team of teetotalling physical purists.

Wells and Maxwell, especially in the off season, are entitled to sit together in some public watering hole and share a beer or two, perhaps even three. Whether or not they were 'on the piss' is determined by the quantity of alcohol consumed and the state in which they left the licensed premises.

However, I am not my brother's keeper, nor was I privy to the manner of their departure from the alleged house of piss. They are consenting adults engaging in the most Australian of recreational activities. It's November and the 2019 AFL season is hardly just around the corner.

Let the Christmas and festive season spirit infuse your lives with charitable thoughts and deeds. If Wells returns grossly overweight to training in the new year, let your wrath ambush him with both guns blazing. Until then give him some space.

 

[76woodenspooners]

He sure does. One of the biggest kids I can remember coming through at the club. And not just big, but looks ripped. Would have been a real nightmare for forwards in junior footy, with that strength. Will be interesting to see how he develops over the next 2 or 3 years and how much of a ceiling he has, given that early physical development.

In a club highlights pack last week there was a moment where Atu was able to push Quaynor out of the way. Looks like Atu has very strong core strength!

 

[Quicky]

whiskeytown saw him (wells) on the piss again last night with Maxwell

I'm curious to know what you mean by "on the piss"? The tone of the post suggests he was shit faced with Maxwell. Or were they just having a social drink? Two very different scenarios. I find it hard to believe he was getting legless with Maxwell of all people.

 

[Quicky]

I am not a great fan of Well's recruitment, but nor am I going to climb into a warm bath and sever a vein or two over it.

Though I acknowledge that abstinence from alcohol is popular among at least 20% of the population, including AFL players keen to squeeze every drop of talent from their finely tuned bodies, I don't personally feel the need to worship a team of teetotalling physical purists.

Wells and Maxwell, especially in the off season, are entitled to sit together in some public watering hole and share a beer or two, perhaps even three. Whether or not they were 'on the piss' is determined by the quantity of alcohol consumed and the state in which they left the licensed premises.

However, I am not my brother's keeper, nor was I privy to the manner of their departure from the alleged house of piss. They are consenting adults engaging in the most Australian of recreational activities. It's November and the 2019 AFL season is hardly just around the corner.

Let the Christmas and festive season spirit infuse your lives with charitable thoughts and deeds. If Wells returns grossly overweight to training in the new year, let your wrath ambush him with both guns blazing. Until then give him some space.

Well said.

 

[35Daicos]

whiskeytown saw him (wells) on the piss again last night with Maxwell

Pablo, stop posting nonsense like this! It proves nothing, and doesn't help anyone!

 

[pablo disco bar]

Gee you blokes are pathetic.

And your not?

 

[pablo disco bar]

Pablo, stop posting nonsense like this! It proves nothing, and doesn't help anyone!

Wtf there is nonsense on here by all of You!! Lol

You guys get off on stuff like this..
People are interested in wells and when he plays 0 to 2 games this year his shit pre season will be why

 

[jmac70]

This site has gone down hill badly. We shouldn’t have to read rubbish rumours in a quality thread like this.

Please clean it up mods and hold people to account.

 

[ClaytonM]

Can you lot get off Apple’s quality training thread. Take your sick elsewhere.

 

[Dynamics]

In a club highlights last pack last week there was a moment where Atu was able to push Quaynor out of the way. Looks like Atu has very strong core strength!

Fijians are no joke! Played a little rugby against Fijian kids at school. Too strong, too fast.

 

[ClaytonM]

Fijians are no joke! Played a little rugby against Fijian kids at school. Too strong, too fast.

The NRL has been overtaken by Pacific Islanders. They have similar athletic traits as our indigenous friends but with greater size and strength.

 

[Jasper84]

This site has gone down hill badly. We shouldn’t have to read rubbish rumours in a quality thread like this.

Please clean it up mods and hold people to account.

It's a slippery slope to jump straight into censorship of everything that doesn't fit your mould of quality. If you don't like the comment, try challenging the view before going North Korea on it.

 

[Dynamics]

You guys get off on stuff like this..

I know I don't.

You can say whatever you like, but saying everyone likes it is a stretch.

 

[Dynamics]

The NRL has been overtaken by Pacific Islanders. They have similar athletic traits as our indigenous friends but with greater size and strength.

It's understandable. The combination of speed and size is lethal. Fiji has been a Sevens powerhouse for years... give them that extra space on the field and they're so hard to stop.

As you said, that body type is more suited to explosive power sports like League, Union and the NFL. Our sport has become a real test of endurance, hence Folau having to shed all that bulk to play for the Giants.

Atu isn't going to play midfield any time soon I wouldn't have thought, so he should hopefully be able to balance his natural bulk with building a tank.

 

[jmac70]

It's a slippery slope to jump straight into censorship of everything that doesn't fit your mould of quality. If you don't like the comment, try challenging the view before going North Korea on it.

Censorship?
Can I please have back the hundreds of posts of mine that have been deleted for being off topic? I don’t recall ever posting BS rumours either.

Pablo’s post has no business being in this thread and you know it.

 

[loki04]

Yep, in the non-attendees list.You weren't supposed to have seen him accordingly!

Do you know why beams is on a modified program? is purely a management program for his body to avoid overload injuries?

 

[loki04]

In a club highlights pack last week there was a moment where Atu was able to push Quaynor out of the way. Looks like Atu has very strong core strength!

Not only that but his vertical leap is massive (see his mark vs Daicos) and too quick agile for Tyler Brown (who is considered no slouch) at end of clip.

 

[pablo disco bar]

Censorship?
Can I please have back the hundreds of posts of mine that have been deleted for being off topic? I don’t recall ever posting BS rumours either.

Pablo’s post has no business being in this thread and you know it.

La la la LOUD NOISES LA LA LA
It was on topic most of thread is on wells..


LOUD NOISES

 

[loki04]

Fijians are no joke! Played a little rugby against Fijian kids at school. Too strong, too fast.

The NRL has been overtaken by Pacific Islanders. They have similar athletic traits as our indigenous friends but with greater size and strength.

It's because like Africans they on average have more natural (type 2) fast twitch fibres active (Explosive exercises ie lots of sports), Caucasions tend to have a lot of (type 1) neutral/slow fibres. This is not to say you wont find people of each race who have the opposite but just the average has that genetic make up.

https://notpoliticallycorrect.me/20...se-differences-in-elite-sporting-competition/

Blacks are, on average, better at sports than whites. Why? The answer is very simple: muscle fiber typing. Most individuals have an even proportion of muscle fibers, skewing about 5 to 10 percent less on type II fibers. However, when it comes to elite competition, race—and along with it muscle fiber typing—come into play more. Who is stronger? Why? Who is faster? Why? Who is better at endurance running? Why? The answers to these questions lie in muscle fiber typing, somatype, and, of course, grit and determination. Today I will provide yet more evidence for my argument that whites are stronger than blacks.

Muscle fiber typing by race

I’ll be quick here since I’ve covered this extensively.

Blacks have more type II muscle fibers in comparison to whites who have more type I muscle fibers. This difference in fiber typing causes differences in aerobic capacity which lead to higher rates of cardiorespiratory diseases such as type II diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension.

There are two types of muscle fibers with two divisions: Type I and Type II with the divisions being in the slow twitch fiber, further broken down into Type IIa and Type II x. Type I fibers fire slowly and possess greater aerobic metabolic capacity due to higher levels of lipid, myoglobin, mitochondrial and capillary content. Type II fibers, on the other hand, fire faster, have reduced aerobic capacity (and all that comes with it) and are better equipped for anaerobic activity (explosive sports). Type IIa possesses more aerobic potential than IIx, but less anaerobic potential than type I fibers. Some evidence exists showing that it’s possible to train type II fibers to have a similar aerobic capacity to type I, but I don’t really buy that. It is possible to make aerobic capacity similar to the aerobic capacity that type I fibers have, but type II will not be fully like them.

Blacks have more type II fibers while whites have more type I fibers. Type II fibers predispose people to a myriad of cardiometabolic diseases which are also associated with grip strength.

Differences in fiber typing in elite athletes

Now comes the fun part. How do muscle fibers differ between elite athletes? A few studies have been done but, as expected in physiology studies, they have a low n, but they still do show physiologic differences when compared to the control subjects, physiologic differences that were predicted due to what we know about muscle fiber typing.

Type IIa fibers possess more aerobic potential than IIx, therefore, power lifters have a higher proportion of IIa fibers compared to IIx fibers. It should also be noted that powerlifters have the same amount of type I fibers as the general population (Fry et al, 2003a), so knowing this fact, since blacks have a lower proportion of type I muscle fibers as noted in Caeser and Hunter (2015), this explains why there are very few black power lifters: they have the opposite type II fiber type while having less type I fiber.

Furthermore, Olympic lifters also use a higher percentage of type IIa fibers (Fry et al, 2003b). This also explains the lower amount of blacks in weight lifting as well. Fiber types don’t explain everything, but at elite levels, they do mean a lot and looking at the racial variation explains racial differences in elite sporting competition.

Explaining racial differences in sprinting competitions is easy as well. Type IIx fibers combined with the ACTN3 gene=elite human performance (Mills et al, 2001). The gene ACTN3 was discovered to explain explosive power, and it just so happened to vary by race. William Saletan writes:

the relative frequency of the X allele is 0.52 in Asians, 0.42 in whites, 0.27 in African-Americans, and 0.16 in Africans. If you break out the data further, the frequency of the XX genotype is 0.25 in Asians, 0.20 in European whites, 0.13 in African-Americans, and 0.01 in African Bantu. Conversely, the frequency of RR (the genotype for speed and power) is 0.25 in Asians, 0.36 in European whites, 0.60 in African-Americans, and 0.81 in African Bantu. Among Asians, you can expect to find one RR for every XX. Among whites, you can expect nearly two RRs for every XX. Among African-Americans, you can expect more than four RRs for every XX.

This allele is responsible for explosive power. Explosive power is needed to excel in events such as sprinting, football, basketball and other sports where power is needed in short bursts. However, where blacks have an advantage in explosive power sports, the advantage is lost once events like swimming, power lifting (described above), Olympic lifting (differing fiber type) etc.

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

A mate told me a story how he was holidaying in the greek isles and a stack of Poms were there at the time. They'd strip right off and expose that very pale white skin of theirs.

To be fair, Greece is FULL of Pom tourists. All the time. At one stage back in August we went to a Water park where there were more Poms than Greeks. It was staggering