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

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?

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

Zig Zag Sprints

Zig Zag Sprints

A useful agility drill to develop acceleration, deceleration and rapid changes in direction whilst sprinting.

The Seated Good Morning

The Seated Good Morning

The seated good morning is another variation of the standing version of this low back exercise.

Ladder Drill: One Foot in Each Rung

Ladder Drill: One Foot in Each Rung

The most simple of ladder drills can be used for beginners and young athletes to teach them about moving quickly. The ladder drill can also be used to teach running mechanics.

Ladder Drill: Two Feet in Each Rung

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.

Ladder Drill: Two Forward One Back

Ladder Drill: Two Forward One Back

One of the more complex ladder drills, it helps develop co-ordinated quickness in two directions: forwards and back.

Lateral Ladder Drill

Lateral Ladder Drill

Challenges co-ordination by teaching quick lateral movements. This drill can also be used as an aid for teaching correct lateral movement mechanics.

Lateral Zig Zags

Lateral Zig Zags

One of the most common movements in sport is running side-ways on an angle. This drill helps develop lateral speed and changes in lateral direction.

Agility Drill 1

Agility Drill 1

This agility drill is great for learning to decelerate and rapidly change direction following a period of acceleration.

Agility Drill 3

Agility Drill 3

This drill is designed to focus upon quick feet movements followed by an initial acceleration. The quick foot movements will help “prime” your body for the sprint and rapid change of direction.

Agility Drill 4

Agility Drill 4

Similar to agility drill 3, this drill offers a little more challenge to the co-ordination of the athlete by having them side-step in and out of cones before a sprint.

Agility Drill 9

Agility Drill 9

This drill can be performed as part of a warm-up or as a separate agility drill.

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

Speed Training

Speed Training: How the Frappier super treadmill helps athletes run faster

British sports coaches | Australian sports coaches

Why blinkered British coaches have a lot to learn from Aussie champions

Running economy 2

Running Economy 2: How to make headway on improving running efficiency: can freeloading African women provide some important clues?

Resistance Training

Resistance Training: Resistance Training: The message has got through to adults: should they keep it to themselves or pass it down to the juniors?

Fitness for football

Fitness For Football: Endurance training boosts performance in the field

Speed Training

Speed Training: Talking turkey: why hill work helps athletes in football, rugby, basketball, cricket - and even running

Trigger points - a warning sign of serious injury

Tigger Points: what they are, how they happen and what to do about them

bilateral co-ordination | training

Bilateral Co-ordination: Why dexterity alone just will not do: some lessons from a young piano player

psychometric testing | sports training

Psychometric testing: How the Giants kicked tradition into touch with psychometric testing

referees

Pity the poor referee - he gets all of the stress and none of the lolly

squatting exercises | knee injuries | spine injuries

How safe is squatting? Does it injure the knees or even the spine? Here's an exhaustive review of the research

Flexibility | Stretching

Flexibility and Stretching: Two sports physiotherapists show why flexibility is so important, and explain the science behind it

Pressure training sessions

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

track and field workouts

Track And Field Workouts: Phasing the year properly means allowing your athletes a chance to be serviced, oiled and refitted.

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.

anaerobic performance testing

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

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