BEN NEWTON
Pro Beach Volleyballer
Brutal Trainer/Coach and Partner

How long have you been doing Brutal?
About as long as I’ve been playing volleyball. Probably about two and a half years.

How did you start Brutal?
When I started playing volleyball, I started playing with a mate, Burnsy. I don’t remember why, but we started to do a few sessions with Haydn at King Club Gym. I don’t know if we wanted physical training or what, I didn’t know I was doing Brutal. I don’t even know if Brutal had been coined at that stage. We did a push up ladder and something else, and it was good.

When you started Brutal, were you just doing all the basic stuff like ladders?
Yeah we did a lot of ladders, a lot of push up ladders mainly. The sessions always had ladders in them as well as other stuff; I don’t remember the other things though.

How has it change from then until now?
Well initially it was just training with Haydn and he wasn’t like a coach or trainer at that point. To show how much I didn’t know what was going on, I thought we were just training with a guy who was training. Then it became a bit more organized as in H became a bit more of a coach. Then more people would start to come and we’d group session.

I then started training with Clay and the training evolved and stated to become more mental. Now I don’t physically train that much, not the way I used to anyway. I just train to try and correct some weaknesses now. It’s difficult to say how it’s changed.

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