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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

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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

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In Season Conditioning (Part 2)

The second in the series that looks at fitness for the club player during the season Continue reading

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In-Season Conditioning (Part 1)

The first of a series that looks at in-seasn training. Continue reading

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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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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

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Fitness For Referees

Referees often come in for a lot of flack these days, but the reality is that without them we wouldn’t have a rugby match. Rightly or wrongly we cajole, complain even abuse refs. Sometimes a portion of this complaining could … Continue reading

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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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Speed session

Warm up for both speed and speed endurance session 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

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