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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: conditioning techniques
With Ian Burbedge
1) Press-up, sprint and alternate ball carry
Player sprints with ball under one arm 5 yards, then does one press-up, puts ball under other arm, sprints another 5 yards, does one more press-up, puts ball under first arm, then sprints back to start position.
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!
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
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
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. Have the athlete perform the drill correctly by asking them to start off slowly to get a feel of the movement.
Sport Books: Football, Rugby, and more
Six of the best sports books of 2005
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
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
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 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.
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.
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury prevention exercises, rehabilitation and training techniques
These four exercises can help prevent your ACLs blowing up - which is especially good news for female athletes.
Squat exercise
Squat exercise
referees
Pity the poor referee - he gets all of the stress and none of the lolly
squat
Squat research review
Rugby: Energy Training
Rugby training: how rugby training should reflect the varying energy demands of players field positions
Rugby: Energy Training
Rugby training: how rugby training should reflect the varying energy demands of players field positions
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