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CHANGE
If you want to change yourself, challenge yourself.

     It's been said that strength training is not popular in Japan, that Japan high schools do not have weight rooms,
​that weight lifting makes you short, that weight lifting is dangerous. 

     The video below is instructive.
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     In the 1995 Rugby World Cup, Japan lost to the famed All Blacks of New Zealand 145-17, a record thrashing. Twenty years later, in the 2015 World Cup in England, Japan defeated the mighty Springboks of South Africa, former world champions, 34-32, in one of the greatest upsets in rugby history, the Miracle of Brighton. (Japan's 2019 World Cup defeat of world #2 Ireland ranks up there, too.)
     How did Japan rugby get so much better? "What changed since then?" the video asks.
​     According to the head coach of a Waseda high school - high school - interviewed in the video: "The biggest change is our training method. Before, we practiced only skills. Now, we also build up our bodies. We do weight training, or what we call strength training."
     So... Japan high schools do have weight rooms. Strength training has helped Japan rugby become world beaters. Would strength training help Sabers athletes?
If you watch The Brighton Miracle movie, you'll see the Japan players deadlifting, squatting, doing planks, doing rope work, tossing sandbags, slamming medicine balls, flipping tires, and sprinting - all part of the SABERStrong approach to strength and conditioning.
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