Rugby Fitness Training

Rugby Specific Fitness Training - Who needs it ???

Rugby is a highly intense and physically demanding sport. Whether you're playing for your club or at national league level, a rugby specific training routine will enhance physical development and performance in the areas most critical to your game.

Although physical power and strength is highly regarded as a normal focus for most rugby training, combining power and strength training with core stability, stamina and endurance techniques, are vital to gaining competitive advantage for your rugby team.

Players with increased strength and balance and endurance, will provide significant improvements and more consistent results with fast moving ball management techniques, as well as improved performance in the scrum and tackling.

There are a wide variety of shapes and sizes on the Rugby pitch, with each individual having their set role in the game. With players amalgamating as a team, every player can benefit from the following basic physical requirements, to develop a team with no weak links.

• Explosive acceleration and fast sprinting speed.
• Muscular endurance and strength in both the lower and upper body.
• Muscular balance and high levels of neuro-muscular co-ordination.
• Proprioception and agility, the ability to know where your body is, and be able to move it.
• Discipline to take orders and decisions, as well as putting the team first.
• Good flexibility to avoid injury, and to give yourself a greater range of movement.
• Correct balance between your quadriceps and hamstrings, as well as strength imbalances between your left and right leg.