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Players take to the soft stuff after hot Sunday GLENN JACKSON
March 23, 2010
SYDNEY ROOSTERS players drank water after their win over Wests Tigers on Sunday - no surprise there in this age of alcohol bans and new beginnings at the club. What was different, though, was just how much they consumed on this night.
''I skolled two big bottles straight after the game but I'd still lost 2½ kilos,'' winger Anthony Minichiello said. ''I had to duck off to a wedding after the game, and I was trying to drink all this water just trying to get myself going.''
Mitchell Aubusson, meanwhile, spent the off-season putting on five kilograms for his move into the forwards … then promptly lost all but 1½ kilograms in 80 minutes.
''It is difficult,'' Aubusson said. ''It's a lot of force-feeding, and then drinking a lot of fluids. Twenty-four hours after the game is probably the most important.
''I was struggling a bit, I've got to say. I had a good feed with my brother [James] after the game and just had to eat and drink and get all the fluids going. But I struggled to sleep, like a lot of the boys. I'm happy it's over, to be honest.''
Which is why this week is about more than just video sessions, fitness and the usual training drills for many NRL players. Two recovery sessions and urine tests, as conditioners check that the players are rehydrated, will dominate the build-up to their clash with Canterbury on Sunday.
For a number of sides, this week will be less about how they tear up the training paddock and more about how they recover. The Roosters' opponents during the weekend, Wests Tigers, will be another, having to play just five days after the Sunday scorcher.
March 23, 2010
SYDNEY ROOSTERS players drank water after their win over Wests Tigers on Sunday - no surprise there in this age of alcohol bans and new beginnings at the club. What was different, though, was just how much they consumed on this night.
''I skolled two big bottles straight after the game but I'd still lost 2½ kilos,'' winger Anthony Minichiello said. ''I had to duck off to a wedding after the game, and I was trying to drink all this water just trying to get myself going.''
Mitchell Aubusson, meanwhile, spent the off-season putting on five kilograms for his move into the forwards … then promptly lost all but 1½ kilograms in 80 minutes.
''It is difficult,'' Aubusson said. ''It's a lot of force-feeding, and then drinking a lot of fluids. Twenty-four hours after the game is probably the most important.
''I was struggling a bit, I've got to say. I had a good feed with my brother [James] after the game and just had to eat and drink and get all the fluids going. But I struggled to sleep, like a lot of the boys. I'm happy it's over, to be honest.''
Which is why this week is about more than just video sessions, fitness and the usual training drills for many NRL players. Two recovery sessions and urine tests, as conditioners check that the players are rehydrated, will dominate the build-up to their clash with Canterbury on Sunday.
For a number of sides, this week will be less about how they tear up the training paddock and more about how they recover. The Roosters' opponents during the weekend, Wests Tigers, will be another, having to play just five days after the Sunday scorcher.
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