THE ALL NEW RUGBY MUSCLE PODCAST - An Introduction & why you should listen

Introducing the brand new season of the Rugby Muscle Podcast, why you should listen, and how social media might not be the best thing to help you with your training.... ENJOY

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Transcript

TJ: 0:09

okay. Yes. What is going on, everybody. Welcome to the rugby muscle podcast and the all new season of the rugby muscle podcast. Let me make this clear. This is a brand new season of the rugby muscle podcast. So welcome back for those that used to listen to the podcast. Welcome to the guys that have come over from YouTube. Welcome. If you've just discovered this podcast in your feed, this episode will serve as a little bit of an intro to what I plan to do with this podcast going forward. So let me make this point completely clear, right? This is the rugby muscle podcast. So these will not be YouTube videos that are also streamed to Spotify. These will not be like flashy tools or workouts or exercises that you must do. Although, of course, we are going to look at exercises, training techniques, um, different things like that, sessions as part of what we do here as, as podcast. But it's not going to be click baity stuff. This is going to be a More of a systematic breakdown of exactly what you need to be doing as a rugby player to become the best athlete that you can be and do that without sacrificing, you know, work, family, social life in this new season of podcast, we, and I say we, because we're doing this together, we're going to dissect the gym work, the conditioning work, the nutrition and everything else that goes into performing your best for rugby. And if that sounds like something that Interest you and something that you would use to help your training for rugby, then please do me this. I'll ask this right now and nice and early. Uh, give this podcast a five star rating and type up a quick review on Spotify. Just give the five star rating. Um, if you believe this one, if not listen to a few more episodes, get the vibe that we're giving you here at rugby muscle. And then hopefully you will still give it a five star review. Um, because I do think that this is something that's, uh. is missing in the rugby strength and conditioning space. I've seen a lot of just strength and conditioning gym stuff and lots of like tick tocky stuff out there. Um, YouTube now has focused so much more on YouTube shorts, which is basically tick tock Instagram. Of course, the same thing, you get a little bit more quality posts on Instagram, but I don't think, uh, they're coming from that tick tocky style video. And I'll probably get into that in this episode because, um, I think that's. in addressing why this podcast is back in the way that it is back. I think that it's inevitable that I'll end up talking, uh, about this stuff. Um, and so, yeah, um, welcome back. Hope everyone is doing great. Uh, apologies for the absence. I've been setting up a few special things with rugby muscle and with the workload being as it was, I had to take a step back from. Doing the YouTube videos, doing the podcast and I say podcast, but actually it was just YouTube videos. And I'll get into like why I think that's a mistake. I think this happens in life, right? It happens with a lot of people with their training. We're spinning all these different plates with life, right? Like we've got all the different things that we've got going on. And sometimes it's about managing those plates. And part of managing those plates is letting one fall to the floor. Like, Letting one of those plates just smash rather than trying to save that one and then three more down the line like end up getting smashed on the floor because you've focused your attention away from that better to keep a few things going as you want them to go and let something drop and then you know reassess it later so I mean we're already getting into the analogies which must mean we are we are back doing proper rugby muscle podcast stuff I hope you guys will enjoy this stuff I'm actually really happy that it's happened because Um, like I realized that slowly over time and again, this is how change happens. The YouTube stuff had gone in the way of producing like real quality podcasts, information that you guys can consume. I didn't really see it coming and when you're in the weeds, this is why change happens so slowly and you don't really see it happening. When you're in it, you don't see this stuff happening. You have to take a step back and go, Oh crap, like for the last year, year plus. I've been doing YouTube stuff, masking it as a bit of a podcast, whereas before I would just do the podcast and put it on YouTube. And that was always much better, well received, right? YouTube became like the last couple of years, maybe became a bit more of a focus than the podcast when in reality, for me, the best content for rugby muscle that we've always produced has always been the podcast. And I think now. So more than ever, thanks to the step back, I've realized this now more than ever, this must be the vehicle for quality, strength and condition and physical preparation information for you to pass out. And I say this because, yeah, we've got YouTube shorts, Instagram reels, Tik Toks, and all this stuff takes up a lot of people's attention. And quite frankly, like at worst, this is really scary, you know, like this is something that is hacking the brain. Better than a lot of drugs, better than anything. You feel that addictive nature of these real short or short form videos. And maybe you don't see that, but you know, at best with these videos, it's it's not helping your training. You know, it's it's just not right. I don't know who's to blame for this, but it is definitely a problem just from a training lens. If we look at it right, you'll scroll through your feed. You'll see a cool technique. And you'll say, ah, that looks cool. That's something that I haven't considered with my training. Let's, let's add that in. You add that in good, good, useful info. You follow that person again. Good idea. This person has put out some good, useful information. I want to follow them. And yeah, maybe you add that into your training, but then because you follow this person. More training stuff comes into your feed, the algorithm is starting to pick up on what you're paying attention to, you know, and more and more exercises come into your feed, some of it relevant, some of it not, and it's not just exercise techniques, it could also be conceptual stuff, like make ways to train, how you should recover, skills, conditioning, mindset, um, all that sort of stuff, and before you know it, it's either really all overwhelming, Or it's all just noise and it all gets ignored and you never like you just shut it all off and either way, right, it's of no use. And it's hard to say again, who's to blame for this, right? Because the platform is just giving you what you've been looking for, right? It's just responding to what you wanted to see in the first place. The creators are just responding to what works well on the platform. And therefore. traction gets views. So I've said this before, right? If, if, if someone just said, Hey, by the way, just squatting is really good for you. Fucking no attention, no likes, no views. You know, obviously that's not going to go viral. Some guy does a balance board, uh, squat with some weights on one side. Maybe there's a chick on his back. He's also, you know, got a chain around his neck. All of a sudden that goes viral, you know, that's, that's just what, how social media works, how the algorithms are working these days, you know, new flashy exercise is going to be successful. And that's just the way it is. It's just a way attention is captured, you know, if it was, if they only promoted like the, the, the boring mundane stuff that people would have to research for people would spend less time on the platform. And the goal of these platforms are to have you spend as much time on these platforms as possible. So it's lots of short. attention grabbing hits, you know, freaky top 1 percent athletes, controversial diets. These are the things that are going to be successful in these platforms because these are the things that get your quick attention. And when this is the way that you consume information, it is really difficult to have that information just be of good quality. And even if it is of like exceptional quality, which some of the stuff on Instagram absolutely is it to me, it simply cannot be useful because Before you've had a chance to conceptualize it, what have you done? You've scrolled on to the next thing, you know? And that's where I believe this podcast comes in. I want to look at things to give you listeners a complete, or maybe not a complete, but at least a fuller, a, a better understanding of how rugby strength and conditioning actually works, how nutrition works. Because to me, I really do think that's missing. It's, and I've seen it from the conversations that I've had time and time and time and time again with athletes. Um, right. Instead of understanding what you're trying to achieve, we get stuck in the weeds of exercises and workouts. Like, is this a good workout? Is this a good exercise? Is this a good split? Is this a good program? When actual fact, what you should be doing is taking a step back in the same way that I've taken a step back and addressed the. I need to be doing this podcast to like further this message and, and grow rugby muscle into being what I want it to be and producing my best information. I want you to take a step back with your physical preparation, okay? And I want to use this podcast as a way for you to do that. And we'll look at how we'll do that over the course of this entire season of this podcast. I believe it will be running for at least all of 2024. Um, and of course, we'll get in, we'll have, we'll get into and have different guests on the podcast. I'm looking forward to getting that and interesting conversations. We'll also be doing the Q and A's, although because it's YouTube isn't the main focus anymore, the YouTube live Q and A's will probably be dropping off, but we'll do regular Q and A's every single week. If you just Pop your questions in the comments or on Spotify. You can comment after every single podcast or during every single podcast. Those will get prioritized. So if you give us feedback in the Spotify, um, feedback thing where it says, what do you think of this episode or something? Ask a question there. I will always see it and I will always answer those questions. Maybe make them into their own podcasts themselves. So the plan right now is to do a bit of a deeper dive into a topic, uh, of my choosing. To help you understand rugby physical preparation on the Tuesdays and then do some Q and A's on the Thursdays and at least that's the plan for the first month or so and then we'll see from there. Guests will replace either one or both of those days if I decide to break those up, but I don't want these episodes going too long. I do want them being like quality podcasts, but I don't want these episodes going too long. So don't worry about them being like four hour marathon additions. I feel like. You know, once we get beyond 30 minutes, I'm on borrowed time at that point. So, um, I do want to break this information I do want to get in depth But I am aware that we don't want this stuff to drag on because again if it drags on it's hard to apply So I really want this stuff to be applicable for you to help your training So with all of that in mind, I'm going to make a request actually before I do before I do that You can find a link to all of our programming, coaching, and a free, uh, 14 day rugby athlete blueprint, which is a new two week interactive workshop where we'll be working together to really put the pieces together for you to get the best from yourself and your training and all of your rugby physical preparation. Two weeks, all designed to give you clarity and results. And I guess that, that, the, the blueprint is pretty much like this podcast. But just way more intensive and direct and just an intensive two weeks where you'll go through all of that. And if you're interested in that, I'll put the links in the description below. We'll try to run one of those at least every single month. So, and that's to help you. Okay. Now to help me, um, of course, five stars, if you believe by the end of this episode, I've earned it. But what I would also like is some feedback on that Spotify feed on those comments, um, and or. The YouTube comments, if you're watching this on YouTube, YouTube has now allowed me to do a sort of podcast segment. That's what I'll be using for these podcasts going forward. Um, you know, let me know any feedback show length. How long would you listen to a podcast for listening habits? Um, and questions. If you have any questions about your rugby, physical preparation, nutrition, training, any stuff like that, let me know. Um, and I will, I will be answering them in a future episode. And if you'd like to share the show with a teammate or even better, actually that's not better, but it's just as good. Um, Take a screenshot of this podcast of you listen to this podcast and tag me at rubymuscle in your Instagram feed that like takes two seconds and it takes what maybe 20 seconds at most but I've given you a good how long is this episode been running nearly 14 minutes so far right I've given you this episode I'm giving you all of the episodes going forward just if you would like to pay me back all right Do so with that. Do so with just a screenshot. Tag me at rubymuscle in your Spotify feed. That really does help out. Now, for now, that will be it. That's um, that's the introduction episode. I will post this on the like introduction tab on Spotify as well. I hope you enjoyed this episode. I hope you got something out of this one, even though it was a bit of an introduction. I hope it changed the way. You think about the way that it changed the way that you think about the way that you consume information in an implementable way because at the end of the day That's why you're consuming it You're consuming training information not for the sake of it because you want to apply it to your training and get better Whereas what a lot of us are doing and myself absolutely gui of this End up just consuming more and more information for information's sake because it's there and kind of just to justify Wasting your time on your feed, which is absolutely fine and normal, but why pretend that your, your app add into your training, you know, you said be more purposeful with it. Hopefully you found that episode useful. The future episodes are going to be even more useful next week. We'll delve into some strength and conditioning mistakes and. Some other good stuff. We'll be looking at game planning for the next year. How you can get the most out of yourself. Nutrition. Lots of stuff coming forward in the future episodes. But I'll leave it there. Thank you guys so much for listening. And I'll catch you in the next one.