when i used to play rugby we used to do an 8 mile jog as a warm up, that normally took less than 50 mins, so ide be saying a hour max.
unless you havent done excercise for a long time in which case ide say 1.5 hours for 2 months then closer to a hour
Are you f**king serious?! An 8 mile WARM UP JOG!? What level did you play at? I'd say that is a slightly excessive warm up routine! Also 8miles in 50 minutes works out at under 7minutes miles...You do not 'jog' 7 minute miles for 8 miles.
50mins was proberbly a bit of an exageration actually, was proberbly around the hour mark for the backs and maybe 5 or 10 mins longer for the forwards
well i used to play for three teams;
one team came 11th best in a tournament that included school and college teams from all over europe
one team came second in an international tournament playing against teams such as frances, argentinas, south africas, scotland and other international u17s team (We were only u16s at the time and had to lie to the tournament "bosses" or what ever there called to be able to play into the tournament (possibly would have won if we did what the other teams did and went to bed at about 11 oclock each night of the weekend final/semifinal/quater final part of the tournament instead of drinking untill 3am then getting up at 6am for the tournament)) and now some of the lads are playing 1st or 2nd team rugby getting payed for it
and county was county rugby.
but the coatches of the club rugby used to be into his fitness big time (1 coatch was a ex 2nd row and used to do all the building up power and muscle stuff, his wife was a physio therapist/personal trainer so would do all the fitness side and the other coatch was a mix of beasting you flipping a tracktor tyre the width of the pitch and fitness making you do big runs and stuff.
you know when basket ball players do shuttle runs on the basket ball court going to the key then to the D then to the half way ... he would make us do that but with every line on a rugby pitch and instead of touching the line we would have to get down and do 1 pressup(doesent seem hard but when your doing that sorta thing pushing your own body weight up gets hard).
so it wasnt a massively serious level, but everyone took it serious, and some of the lads from the club it has payed off for
anywho back to the OP
why not just take your gym kit one day next week and try it out, if you think its too much of a chew on with all the pedestrians/it taking too long then just go to the gym after work or once you get in go for a jog.
