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Want to learn how to play rugby better, compete with the best rugby players, or find out more about rugby training and coaching rugby? In rugby, fitness is important. These articles will help you get stronger, faster and avoid rugby injuries and improve your rugby skills… To browse our library of free sports training articles, browse using the categories on the left or use the search box.

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Rugby training: in-season strength and conditioning work

A training programme for rugby players that will enable maximum benefits from limited training time

Rugby training- how professional rugby players improve their strength and fitness

Peak Performance talks to Sean Lamont, Josh Lewsey and Mark Bitcom

Short and sweet – why all sportsmen and women should consider 40m sprinting!

Strength Training Program Part 1: Competition Preparation

The best Weight Training Exercises to prepare for competition

Rugby Training: Secrets of the Rugby World Cup Players

Scotland's Rugby Fitness Coach shares his rugby training tips

Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targeted with nutritional supplements?

Weight Training Routines for Rugby Players

A rugby tackle requires explosive power – here are some strength training tips on how to get it

Fitness Training for Rugby Union

Rugby conditioning: the fitness standards rugby players and coaches should be aiming for

Preventing Injury: Risk factors for rugby players

Previous rugby injuries predict in-season problems for rugby players

Women's Rugby: Resistance training for rugby

A women's rugby trainer divulges her rugby conditioning secrets from the World Cup

Sports psychology: Post-game recovery for rugby players

Is exercise better than rest for psychological recovery after a game of rugby?

Increase Vertical Leap and Improve Jumping Ability with Plyometrics

Plyometric Exercises to Make You Jump Higher and Further

Ladder Drill: Two Feet in Each Rung

A progression from the One Foot in Each Rung drill, challenges the speed of co-ordination of the athlete.

Sport Books: Football, Rugby, and more

Six of the best sports books of 2005

The Importance of Proprioceptive Training

Proprioception – taking a balanced approach to sport

Half-time nutrition – what’s best for maximising fulltime performance?

Half-Time Training for Team Sports

Half Time Strategy - Temperature

Coping With The Effects of Temperature on The Pitch

Powerful, Accurate and Injury Free Kicking - A Mental Guide

Kicking Training for Rugby and Football

Caring For Your Spine

Core strengthening to keep your spine in good shape

Skills Based Training: Female Games Players

Skills Based Training as an Alternative to Traditional Strength Training

Supplements: Glucosamine

Does glucosamine really work?

Can Athletes Dance Their Way to Agility?

Dance Training for Agility, Speed and Power

weight training systems

Weight Training Systems : Weight train your hormones

biopsychosocial pain

Biopsychosocial Pain : Pain and brain - the biopsychosocial method of chronic injury rehabilitation

strength training for children

Strength Training For Children : Why young athletes should be encouraged to work out with weights

metabolic rate

Metabolic Rate : The metabolic impact of exercise - or how your body works out while you put your feet up

rotational power

Building rotational power: all you need to know about getting in shape to perform zippy turns on the hoof

underperformance syndrome

Underperformance Syndrome - how youth rugby coaches are using psychology to raise their players' game

speed agility quickness training | SAQ training

Speed agility quickness - SAQ training

self confidence

The majestic self-confidence of Jonny Wilkinson - or how expectations can make or break your performance

sport specific weight training

Sport specific weight training

training for football and rugby

Football and rugby teams pre-season training

Fitness programmes

How to design a sports-specific fitness programme

fitness program

Fitness program - How to design a sports-specific fitness program

Fitness for football

Fitness For Football: Endurance training boosts performance in the field

Pressure training sessions

Pressure Training Sessions: How to keep your skills even when all about you are losing theirs.

Muscle Imbalance

Muscle Imbalance: Why detecting muscle imbalance is an essential part of an injury-prevention strategy

mental fitness

Mental Fitness: When you can manage your emotions, you can perform at your best

Power Training

Power Training: How contrast power training maximises performance

Shin splints 1

Shin splints: These exercises will help to strengthen your lower legs, and prevent or repair shin splint problems

Sports Injuries | headaches

The case of the ex-rugby player with a mysterious headache

Shoulder instability

Shoulder Instability: Should you consider shrinking your shoulder?

Caffeine

Caffeine proves less of a help to team sports sprinters

Training dietary regimes

Training Dietary Regimes: You can lead a footballer to a proper diet, but can you make him eat it?

Conditioning

Conditioning: Next to cross-country skiing, running is the best type of fitness training for all sports.

Nose strips | Breathe Right External Nasal Dilator,

Here's the scientific verdict on those nose strips - the damned things don't work

anaerobic performance testing

Here's a new running-based test of anaerobic performance for which you need only a stopwatch and a calculator.

vision in sport

Vision In Sport: A guide to improving performance by training the eyes.

muscle building

Muscle building: Squats, leg press or knee extensions - which exercise is best for the quads?

shin splints treatment

Shin Splints Treatment: How to strengthen the lower parts of your legs, and prevent (or repair) shin splints problems

rugby league training | strength | power

Rugby League Training - Strength And Power: Professional Rugby League is a demanding sport, combining raw aggression and subtle playing skill in equal measure.

Groin Pain Causes and treatments

Groin Pain Causes and Treatments - Case study: a rugby-union player with groin pain

Infection and sport

Infection And Sport: Which infections are spread during sports activities?

Pre season training for soccer and rugby

Conference Report: How football and rugby teams should train before the season begins.

Circuit training

Circuit Training: These exercises are an excellent way to build strength and stamina simultaneously.

Cross Training: A Triathlon Training Schedule

It can stop you getting injured and, who knows, might even help you to win

Reading the game

Reading The Game: While lesser mortals grind out victories with their patient shots, eliminating risks and playing the percentages, the truly gifted seem to conjure with time. They bring an unhurried genius to their game that allows them to play shots with an audacity that sometimes surprises even them.