His sporting career started with cricket, not rugby - and when Schalk Burger changed sport, he had to going to gym for the first time.
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@davidtwynham61613 жыл бұрын
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 .
@marcelohendrix61393 жыл бұрын
the blokes at saracens confirmed he never did any gym work at all, so i believe him
@graemehuia59643 жыл бұрын
Schalk Burger has a real man's strength that comes to the fore in combat & not in the gym. Alot of top players are like that.
@camw34473 жыл бұрын
He was an absolutely fearless competitor that put his heart and soul into the game and was unbelievably good. Seems like a top bloke
@SuperEdge67 Жыл бұрын
He put his heart and soul into the game……and his fingers into the eyeballs of the opposition.
@camw3447 Жыл бұрын
@@SuperEdge67 didn’t realize he did that. No excuse for that sort of brutality I agree
@xpat733 жыл бұрын
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.
@mellilore3 жыл бұрын
-"maybe not you" -"well, I guess I have to take it"
@dominicgallagher89303 жыл бұрын
I do not believe his max bench was 90. No chance
@MKRM273 жыл бұрын
Only because he stopped at 90 because he didn’t like doing it
@graemehuia59643 жыл бұрын
With training it would gone well over that.
@craigflixchill3 жыл бұрын
He is just blessed with natural strength genetics like his father and brother. He also never did the typical gym stuff either - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eLhig7Kdm7mseKs.html
@MeanAzz_133 жыл бұрын
Absolute BEAST!! loved watching this Legend play. Kia Kaha Champ! Arohanui, much love n respect from NZL ☝🏾🇳🇿
@seanyshepfit3 жыл бұрын
"What is bench, first of all" 😂😂😂
@LAMARC13 жыл бұрын
Only bench 60kgs and still a monster💯!
@TheWelterWeightWendigo3 жыл бұрын
Bench is more suitable for the smaller guys with shorter arms, probably why Burger could only bench 60 back in the day
@bremCZ3 жыл бұрын
@@TheWelterWeightWendigo I'd say he's exaggerating. I'm 185cm and half his playing size and I can bench 90.
@eshay85463 жыл бұрын
@@bremCZ no why he lie, he said his Max ever bench was 90
@bremCZ3 жыл бұрын
@@eshay8546 Hyperbole.
@eshay85463 жыл бұрын
@@bremCZ I believe burger not you, you were not in the south African team
@emgee60263 жыл бұрын
A great player and really great guy. He could be a great coach...
@SuperEdge67 Жыл бұрын
Eyegouger
@testlogin97163 жыл бұрын
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.
@steviedj67303 жыл бұрын
A lot of players wouldn't be bench monsters. When you play with 100% commitment gym strength means less
@holden_free13474 жыл бұрын
Schalk is such a gent!
@mjribes3 жыл бұрын
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.
@symeremeyers41483 жыл бұрын
Did your coach actually know anything about rugby ?
@mjribes3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@1ma4ighter3 жыл бұрын
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
@ahlumilekungwayo16183 жыл бұрын
Bro 😭😭😭. I thought I was the only one 😭💀
@eloteroerste47174 жыл бұрын
i heard before that the guys a beast where it matters... the pitch... gym is useless.... specially bench...
@Ganesha2123 жыл бұрын
When it comes to rugby what matters is fitness and throwing your body. Physical strength will only help
@KX5Kat3 жыл бұрын
Gym helps a lot when done correctly and bench relies on skill as well as strength.
@UsyksmashedFurytopieces3 жыл бұрын
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.
@aaronb27793 жыл бұрын
Gym is key, you don't know what your talking about.
@fionnmaccurtain88963 жыл бұрын
Get a women who looks at you the way the lady on the left looks at Schalk Burger
@johnwalsh56344 ай бұрын
She must have saw his finger action on Luke Fitzgeralds eye
@pelekirokovadaa1139Ай бұрын
I know some Rigby players with natural strength who don't lift.
@jorianx21973 жыл бұрын
His ass LMAO
@lionbear35153 жыл бұрын
Weak i started off at 80 and my max is round about 160-170
@fabianreah17083 жыл бұрын
Yeah course it is
@Dotax593 жыл бұрын
Nobody cares really..
@Nyasalands_Finest2 жыл бұрын
Bet you got a 10mm vienna also..
@ignaciogobet6052 жыл бұрын
yeah, grams
@mhcronje3 жыл бұрын
Listen…I love Scalla…but this nonsense being plucked from obscurity. Please. His dad was a bok and Scalla was groomed from a young age to be a Bok.
@markbrown-sb2zm Жыл бұрын
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.