Opposing Leinster on Sunday, in the final of the Champions Cup (3:45 p.m.), Stade Toulousain will be able to count on Antoine Dupont whose physical change impresses.
With the naked eye, Stade Toulousain supporters can notice the difference. Since a few months, Antoine Dupont is no longer exactly the same. And for good reason. Since he took up rugby sevens to compete in the Paris Olympic Games this summer, the French international seems faster and much drier physically. The training required by the discipline allowed the flyhalf to lose fat mass and replace it with lean mass.
In other words, Antoine Dupont has gained muscle, as Julien Robineau explained in the columns of The Team. The France 7 physical trainer detailed the program that the Toulouse native had to follow to achieve performance with the septists. With in particular specific work on races. “ Antoine adds long sprints, from fifty to a hundred meters, which are part of the particularities of the 7 and which you have to know how to do. It could be five minutes once a week, a little more if he’s not playing. »
Firecrackers in the feet
Enough to be faster from now on, as he has already been able to show and benefit Stade Toulousain. Capable of carrying out long races and other changes of pace even more than natural, the Dupont machine has become stronger, enough to make Jérôme Daret, coach of France 7, say with amusement: “ He has firecrackers in his feet, we have the impression that he is even more electric. »
If the sports media also confirms that Antoine Dupont has not lost weight and still weighs around eighty-six kilos, he has therefore indeed replaced a little fat with muscle. Combined with this extra explosiveness, the cocktail is now explosive and perhaps promises a good performance for the Blues during the Olympic tournament. Antoine Dupont is in any case almost ready and also intends to give his Stade Toulousain team the benefit this Sunday against Leinster, in the Champions Cup final (3:45 p.m.).
