Monday 4 August 2014

Week 6

Internship Life.
Week 6.
28.7.14 - 01.08.14

It's that time again - time for a catch up!
Last week followed very much in the footsteps of the week before in that it was very busy from start to finish of every single day. It followed a similar pattern as normal with Therapy, weights, conditioning, speed and rugby training.
Again, there were several different schedules going on, but this week it made a little more sense - for example the England Returnees would be running whilst the main group did rugby, and they'd all do weights at the same time just different sessions.
The biggest difference this week was the double days of rugby. Rugby is now in full swing and the guys are training most days, and it's normally twice a day. So by Friday a lot of the guys looked pretty knackered but its coming up to the first pre-season fixture now so it's important they get the work in as Quins play a good brand of rugby so plenty of training time is necessary.

Another interesting part of the week - especially for me - was the 7s. Quins sent a side up to Franklins Gardens in Northampton on Friday night for the Premiership 7s Series, and I was lucky enough to get to go along as an intern and provide assistance for the evening.
My role for the evening was basically to help out wherever I could, so I helped load the bus, unload the bus, prepare the water, prepare gatorade, make up protein shakes, make up any pre-game supplements the players wanted, help with the GPS units, help with warm up and stretching, and then my main role was running the water on during the games themselves. As it was being shown live on BT Sport this was pretty sweet.
Quins came away victorious, winning all 3 games. The guys put in a lot of hard work, and they were all pretty dead by the end of the 3rd game, but it was worth it I think as they now progress on to the next round. Joe Marchant, one of the ACAD lads who is on loan to Worthing Raiders this year (my hometown club) had an absolutely brilliant evening and came away with a bottle of bubbly as player of the tournament. But in all honesty - the entire squad played well.

This next week is another quieter one - the main squad are off on pre-season camp ending with their first pre-season fixture, so I will be in and around SSP helping out with the ACAD and the injured players who are staying home to continue their rehab/preparations.

Hopefully next week I should be able to go a little more in-depth on what we do with injured players or ACAD, just to mix things up a bit.

Thanks for reading.

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