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Fitness for Rugby. A key quality for all players to have. These articles, videos and training programs contain all the information you need!Fitness will always be a key target area in training for rugby. This collection has been put together to provide rugby players with all the information they need to optimise their training and maximise their performances on the rugby field.Specific training methods, the physiology of the energy systems and how to get the most from your fitness training are all covered in depth in this library of resources! Whether you are training individually or with a team these resources will be a huge help in fine tuning your training!

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Rugby Strength & Conditioning: Work Capacity Circuits

Rugby Strength & Conditioning: Work Capacity Circuit Training

What do the best teams and players have in common? Why can some teams ramp up the intensity at the crucial time and come away with the score or make
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Rugby Strength & Conditioning: Dumbbell Complexes

Rugby Strength & Conditioning: Dumbbell Complexes

We’ve written about barbell complexes before and know that they are great for building strength, muscle, conditioning and hell, they are a lot of fun! So as we know many
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Hill Sprints – 4 Sessions For Speed, Acceleration and Power

Hill Sprints – 4 Sessions For Speed, Acceleration and Power

Hill sprints have a special place in our hearts! Most athletes and especially rugby players have a love hate relationship with hill sprints. They are very effective, have massive bang
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Rugby Strength & Conditioning: 2 Basic Periodisation Principles

Rugby Strength & Conditioning: 2 Basic Periodisation Principles

Periodisation is often made very complicated so in this video we explain two basic principles; the relationship between volume and intensity and specificity? checkout the video below… Rugby Strength &
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Rugby Fitness Training: Off Feet Conditioning Session

Off Feet Conditioning: Rugby Fitness Training

Lower body injuries do happen in rugby so here is a good upper body only workout you can do to keep your fitness up all whilst seated! Check out the
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Rugby Fitness Training: Maximal Aerobic Speed

Maximal Aerobic Speed: Rugby Fitness Training

Maximal Aerobic Speed Training is a great tool to build fitness for rugby popularised by Dan Baker. Watch this quick explainer video for an immediate understanding of it. Rugby Fitness
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Guest Blog: Combat Conditioning for Rugby by Ryan Gibney

Combat Conditioning for Rugby: Guest Blog by Ryan Gibney

In recent years It has become popular in Rugby the use of a wrestling coach or judo coach in a pre season with the thinking of utilizing the grappling techniques
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6 Things to Forget For Your Rugby Strength & Conditioning Programme

6 Myths About Your Rugby Strength & Conditioning Programme

There is tons of rugby strength and conditioning information on the internet but unfortunately some of it, whilst of the best intentions, isn’t the best advice to follow. We pride
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5 Things All Fast Rugby Players Have In Common

5 Things All Fast Rugby Players Have In Common

There’s no denying it, Speed separates the men from the boys on the pitch! There’s no point being strong and powerful if you can’t catch your opposite number, so we’ve
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Ashley Jones Beastly Circuits

Beastly Rugby Training Circuits with Ashley Jones

We’ve written before about the efficacy of combining resistance training and traditional cardio for an awesome rugby fitness workout so here is the brainchild of Ashley Jones an extremely experienced
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