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21 Jun 2012, 12:16 am
Yeah. My job on either side is to hold the hooker up and to push the other team's props back. It's not easy unless you have a strong neck and shoulders. You also need to be able to use your core muscles properly.
So yeah. Lots and lots of push ups for me.
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21 Jun 2012, 12:16 am
Have you ever joined a sport in school, Albirea?
) because I started playing piano at a much younger age. I would have joined the swim team if I'd kept at it, though.
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21 Jun 2012, 12:17 am
Yeah. My job on either side is to hold the hooker up and to push the other team's props back. It's not easy unless you have a strong neck and shoulders. You also need to be able to use your core muscles properly.
So yeah. Lots and lots of push ups for me.
I've always wondered about that.
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21 Jun 2012, 12:18 am
Yeah. My job on either side is to hold the hooker up and to push the other team's props back. It's not easy unless you have a strong neck and shoulders. You also need to be able to use your core muscles properly.
So yeah. Lots and lots of push ups for me.
I've always wondered about that.
Yup. xD
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21 Jun 2012, 12:20 am
Yeah. My job on either side is to hold the hooker up and to push the other team's props back. It's not easy unless you have a strong neck and shoulders. You also need to be able to use your core muscles properly.
So yeah. Lots and lots of push ups for me.
Hold up? As in actually hold them up, like, carrying them up?
Push ups. I can't do push ups.
My best scores on fitness tests have to do with flexibility.
Have you ever joined a sport in school, Albirea?
) because I started playing piano at a much younger age. I would have joined the swim team if I'd kept at it, though.I'm on my school's swim team! We get to laugh at other people once the weather gets really hot.
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I've always been much more flexible than most other people. I don't know why.
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21 Jun 2012, 12:26 am
I've always been much more flexible than most other people. I don't know why.
I'm not the most flexible person I know, but I'm quite flexible. I can't do splits though.
Can you? 
I can touch my knee with my forehead, even if just for a few seconds. I know someone who looks completely relaxed in that position and can hold it for a really long time.
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21 Jun 2012, 12:27 am
Yeah. My job on either side is to hold the hooker up and to push the other team's props back. It's not easy unless you have a strong neck and shoulders. You also need to be able to use your core muscles properly.
So yeah. Lots and lots of push ups for me.
Hold up? As in actually hold them up, like, carrying them up?
Yep, with a little help from the locks. But the props do all the heavy lifting in the scrums.
Planks are better for you anyways. (Like push-ups, but you hold yourself up on only your elbows and toes, and try to hold that position.)
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21 Jun 2012, 12:28 am
And I'm not very flexible.
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21 Jun 2012, 12:33 am
Ah. Planks seem easier.
Maybe most people either strong or flexible. 
I'm average when it comes to speed though.
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21 Jun 2012, 12:34 am
I'm actually decent when it comes to how fast I can run. I can keep up with most of the backs.
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21 Jun 2012, 12:36 am
What's your fastest mile time?
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21 Jun 2012, 12:37 am
I've always been much more flexible than most other people. I don't know why.
I'm not the most flexible person I know, but I'm quite flexible. I can't do splits though.
Can you? I can touch my knee with my forehead, even if just for a few seconds. I know someone who looks completely relaxed in that position and can hold it for a really long time.
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21 Jun 2012, 12:38 am
I've always been much more flexible than most other people. I don't know why.
I'm not the most flexible person I know, but I'm quite flexible. I can't do splits though.
Can you? I can touch my knee with my forehead, even if just for a few seconds. I know someone who looks completely relaxed in that position and can hold it for a really long time.
Ah, ballet classes.
I've never taken any class that would help me become more flexible though.
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