Ye. He is being very modest. Was in the gym with the guy once pre-tri nations match and was with pier spies. They were curling (tossing) 27kg like they were 2kg's. Ridiculously strong. Miss his tenacity on the field .
Burger had a massive engine and would go all day. One of the true greats. Seems like a nice guy. Shame he batted his copy book with the eye gouge on Fitzgerald on the Lions tour.
He is just blessed with natural strength genetics like his father and brother. He also never did the typical gym stuff either - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BR2POl6SHHw.html
Just heard even at Saracens he didn't push any weights during gym days 😂🤣😂 And teammates were all awe that he "can't be that hard hitting player but not pushing any weights". Well, he's made it clean now.
Funny story, but is it really true? I was benching 80kg in matric because our coach said that we had to bench our own weight minus 10kg to stay in the team.
@@symeremeyers4148 He did. He was just from the school of thought that said you had to be big, strong and fit before you worked on anything else. We started training 3 days a week in late January for a season that started with an Easter festival and most of that pre-season prep was spent on conditioning. That aybe isn't unusual now, but I was at school in the early 90s.
Bench is pretty useless alright when it comes to rugby performance but squat and deadlift aren’t as they train Posterior chain...which is key to athletic performance. Benching only trains anterior chain which is largely irrelevant to athletic performance.
Anyone can bench 60?! You know how long that took me? Crazy! It is also crazy that his highest was 90 I reckon that's bullshit, I'm 1.76 and I push 90 and I'm just a gym regular, no other reason to be strong
did you not pay attention,he was on a cricket scholarship.He played rugby on the side.Uni rugby is absolute obscurity,even junior provincial is obscurity.
