Beyond Blue
Premiership Player
- Jun 25, 2021
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Have some humans developed a new sense I'm unaware of? I didn't realise you could know a muscle was about to tear.
Seems a pretty unfair advantage to me!
Hamstrings are nasty. They can feel fine and then not. There's often not warning on subsequent tears and due to the nature of the muscle it's quite difficult to strength test the right 'string'.
Maybe there's also just possibly a teeny tiny element of the players haven't had a choice in how hard they've been required to push under Voss and Russell too. Especially after the 'learnings' from last year's prelim loss was - we need to be fitter and stronger so we don't run out of steam. Not that we need to rotate and manage better. All in on being even fitter and even stronger...... Hamstring nightmare. If a player opts out in this situations what happens next... Can't do this session Vossy we're training too hard. Creates a new separate set of issues
I reckon when youāve done a hammy properly youāre always a bit aware of it. I know I was. That said whilst it flies in the face with high performance I could see the Voss and Russell pushing him too hard or putting him under pressure to return.