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 [...]
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Developing Powerful Athletes for Rugby – Olympic Lifting Prerequisites
October 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Power, Strength
Tags: athlete rugby players·clean·fit for rugby·front squat for rugby·Olympic lifting prerequisites·power clean·rugby Olympic lifting·rugby power
Developing Powerful Athletes for Rugby
September 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Power, Weight Training
In my last post I talked about the importance of having the necessary skills to be a rugby player. In today’s professional rugby world the strength and power element of the game has become far more prevalent than back in the amateur days. Now this is generally due to the amount of time professionals rugby [...]
Tags: developing powerful athletes·explosive rugby·rugby Olympic lifting·rugby players·rugby power lifting·snatch clean and jerk·snatch rugby·strength rugby
