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Tag Archives: Fitness
Training With The Ball (Part 2)
Using the Rate of Perceived Effort (RPE) scale of 1-10 (1 being the lowest perceived effort and 10 the maximum amount of effort the player felt they had worked at), I designed 4 conditioning sessions. Two sessions were using the … Continue reading
Training With The Ball (Part 1)
One of the best bits of advice I was ever given when starting out as a conditioning coach was to always train with the ball. This initially proved to be a problem because growing up in Northern Ireland Gaelic Football … Continue reading
Pitfalls Of Fitness Testing
What’s wrong with Fitness Testing? Testing is open to manipulation – A player can bluff the early tests. Coming close to the key season games, it is then easy to beat their previous scores and look like Lazarus. Suitability of … Continue reading
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Repetition Prescribed Training
A lot of strength and power programmes prescribe a varying degree of sets and reps for various exercises. For example 5 x 12 for bench press, or 4 x 8 for hammer pulls etc. Two of the worlds top strength … Continue reading
Anaerobic sessions for scrum halfs and fly offs
Anaerobic Running Session 1 WARM –UP : Warm-up: 5 mins running at ascending pace, finishing with 4 x 50 m strides up to 90% pace. SET 1 : Start on halfway line with stopwatch in hand Sprint to the try … Continue reading
Anaerobic sessions for centres, wingers and full backs
Anaerobic Running Session 1 WARM –UP : Warm-up: 5 mins running at ascending pace, finishing with 4 x 50 m strides up to 90% pace. SET 1 : Start on halfway line with stopwatch in hand Sprint to the try … Continue reading
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Conditioning Games
CONDITIONING DEMANDS RUGBY 90 Minutes / Ball in Play 35-37 minutes 15-24 lineouts/ 12-20 scrums 140-200 tackles (up to 25 per player) Top speeds of up to 10.5 m/s(9.5 sec 100m pace) Heart rates above 85% of MHR for entire … Continue reading
Christmas Fitness Plan
With Christmas and bad weather upon us here is a week long fitness plan to take you into the new year. Continue reading
Getting More from your Gym Sessions (Part 1)
Are you one of the many many millions of people who religiously go to the gym and don’t seem to be getting any bigger ? If this sounds like you, then I have a very simple but effective solution; take … Continue reading
Training Twice A Day
If training once a day is good, is training twice a day better ? The answer to this will depend a lot on the number of years you have been training, I would not recommend anyone who has not been … Continue reading
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