5 Useful (and FREE) Tools to Turbo Charge Your Rugby Fitness Training Sessions

July 1, 2011

There are a few tools that can seriously help a rugby player’s fitness during a training session. Some of these tools are used at the amateur and the professional level because they are simple and brutally effective. Best of all they require you to draw upon a few resources to make and come up with. [...]

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The Most Important Piece of Rugby Fitness Training Kit You Will Ever Need

June 29, 2011

When you put the extra mile into your rugby fitness you want to make sure that your time is well-invested. To this end the humble Moleskin diary may be your most important tool that you bring with you into the weight room. In fact when working with athletes and rugby players I INSIST on it. [...]

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The Best Training Session in the World…Ever

June 22, 2011

If Carlsberg did rugby training sessions then this would be the one. I suppose we, as players, have all come home buzzing from a training session. For me there have been a few and I always like to reflect on what made it so good. One sticks out in particular, conducted whilst I was club [...]

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How to Develop Functional Match Fitness

June 20, 2011

Our scheduling here in Ireland means we sometimes have huge gaps between fixtures. I mean can you imagine what level of rugby fitness your players will have having been on the run for 5 weeks and then face a 3 week lay-off? It can spell chaos for our match fitness levels and momentum. No matter [...]

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Lean Up Your Training Programme

June 16, 2011

There have been several occasions where I have alluded to simplifying your training for maximum results. It is  undoubtedly one of the biggest mistakes I made growing up getting fit for rugby. For the amateur rugby player these tips will be crucial for the lmited time you have. I spent hours learning how to correct [...]

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Rugby Knee Injuries and What to Do

June 15, 2011

My previous post on shoulder injuries in rugby fitness raised a lot of positive feedback so I thought a post on knees would be the port of call for Rugby Players. Alongside shoulders and backs, knees would be right up there for ‘top of the injuries’ that annoy the life out of rugby players and [...]

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Shoulder Injuries and What You Can Do About Them

June 9, 2011

Who hasn’t had a shoulder injury playing amateur rugby? Now don’t all rush up with your hands. Quite simply I think every rugby player I have come to know over the years has problems with their shoulder. Whether it be impingement, frozen , history of dislocation, SLAP tears, rotator cuff issues, left-over from surgery etc [...]

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Training Diary

June 4, 2011

I have been experimenting with an old school body building type programme over the last three weeks called ’8×8′ or better described as the ‘honest workout’. There are no thrills with this programme. 8 sets of 8 reps with three-four exercises per body-part. So if you wish to train legs – then it is three [...]

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Holiday Training Diary

May 27, 2011

This past week I spent in Spain with the family and so I thought I would share with you some ideas and a few of the workouts I did throughout the 12 days. It was great to keep active and the workouts were mainly invigorating and whilst they did have a focus to them in [...]

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Training Diary – Conditioning

May 9, 2011

I love conditioning outdoors and I couldn’t think of anything worse than being couped up indoors getting a sweat on. So it was outdoors today in the great outdoors which allowed me to relax into the surroundings and give it 100% After a warm up jog to the location and about 5-10 minutes of mobility [...]

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