REUBEN LOGAN
I started playing rugby when I was three, just running around, and I remember being enthusiastic about it. My dad was happy to take me to games. People would come up to him and it was weird, but I was also aware that he and my mum were involved in the sports world.
Over the years, we’ve had a few arguments about training, whether I was doing things right. After each session, we’d either come in smiling or shouting at each other. In my second-last year of school, I had a club game and I wasn’t playing amazingly. Dad was shouting from the sidelines. I snapped and started shouting back at him from the pitch, telling him to shut up. That’s the most notable falling out I can remember.
We don’t train together because he won’t do it. When I was younger we would practise hundreds of high balls, past midnight every night. But by the time I was about 12 I was at the same physical capacity as he is now. His knees have gone and his body’s starting to break down. Seriously though, my dad’s career has been hugely influential on what I want to achieve. I look at how many international caps he has and that’s an ambition of mine, to overtake him, even though that’s a bit further away for me at the moment.
My dad’s had some health issues, but from an outside perspective he didn’t seem to let it affect him. Nothing slowed him down. He continued to be the father he was before. I wouldn’t say I ever saw him as superhuman. I always thought he was successful, but when you get taller than your dad, that sort of thing is tough. I just look at him as someone who’s done exactly what I want to do on the pitch. It’s inspiring. There’s no pressure to follow in his footsteps, it just feels like an opportunity to get better. If I have half the career he’s had, I’ll be happy with myself.
Age: 19 Height: 6ft 4in Weight: 115kg Bench PB: 150kg Deadlift PB:
235kg
Max speed: 9.6m per second Calories per day: 4,000 in season Litres of
water consumed per day: 3-4