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Strength is and always will be essential for rugby players. This library of resources give you all the information needed to maximise strength gains! Training techniques, sample programs, periodisation and detailed look at key lifts and exercises are all included.This collection of articles, videos and training programs have been designed using all of our years of experience of working with rugby players all over the world to optimise their training and maximise their performances on the rugby field.It is our mission to provide rugby players with the tools and information that are usually restricted to players in full time environments.

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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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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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Rugby Strength Training: The Double Progression Method

Rugby Strength Training: The Double Progression Method

Making progress when you train is hugely important and we’ve written about that before here: Progression Methods. The simplest ways to progress is to increase load on the bar or
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Rugby Strength & Conditioning: Blood Flow Restriction Training

Rugby Strength & Conditioning: Blood Flow Restriction Training

Intro Blood flow restriction training is becoming more and more popular with all types of strength athletes. You may have seen it in your local gym, a bodybuilder with straps
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Rugby Strength Training: Cluster Training

Rugby Strength Training: Cluster Training

Cluster training is a great way to get stronger for rugby. We used it heavily in our Stronger for Rugby programme with awesome results. Want to know what it is
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Rugby Strength Training: How Often Should I Test My 1RM?

How Often Should I Test My 1RM? Rugby Strength Training

We get asked regularly how often you should test your 1RM and as we use percentage based programming for our core lifts on the Rugby Renegade programme it’s not a
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Rugby Strength & Conditioning: Progression Methods

Training Progression Methods: Rugby Strength & Conditioning

We all know that we want to get better in the gym to improve our rugby performance and the best way to do that is to increase the load on
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Wrestling for Rugby

Wrestling Techniques for Rugby

Wrestling has been used for years in rugby as a tool to improve fitness and contact techniques. Here is a quick presentation that explains some of the benefits and uses
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3 Ways to Break Through Training Plateaus

3 Ways to Break Through Training Plateaus

We all know training is hard. And once you are past those beginner gains days it takes a lot of work to improve in the gym and on the pitch.
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5/3/1 For Rugby

5/3/1 For Rugby

5/3/1 is a strength training programme designed by Jim Wendler to give people a simple and effective way to get stronger. We often get asked if it’s a good training
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