Developing rugby players into rugby athletes is not a simple or easy task.  There are a number of factors of fitness you may want to work on before you move to these Olympic lifts and having a really good foundation in strength training will help enormously.

Having said that, there are a number of ways of training strength and power…just remember strength and power has become the dominant characteristic of fitness that the modern day rugby player has taken on…but Olympic lifting is a skill that has to be learned and mastered, much like different aspects of rugby skills.

It’s taken me a little longer than I planned to get this video done, but as I explain in it, I changed my mind!!

Olympic Clean Prerequisite – Front Squat – Olympic Rack Position