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Developing Powerful Athletes for Rugby – Olympic Lifting Prerequisites

October 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Power, Strength

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 [...]

Rugby World Cup 2011 – Lessons in Rugby Speed & Power from Weekend 3

September 27th, 2011 · No Comments · Power, Speed, World Cup

During the RWC 2011 games this weekend there were quite a few examples of real rugby power and speed.
Kaino from New Zealand is the perfect example of the modern back row forward. He has absolutely amazing power and his hits are some of the biggest in world rugby.
I remember first seeing him play for the [...]

Rugby World Cup 2011 – Week 2 Physical Performance of the Week

September 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · World Cup

Like last week the best performance this week comes from the highest ranking teams clash.
The Australia v Ireland game was amazing to watch and I was thrilled for the Irish.
The whole team played well, but in particular the Irish forward pack as a whole were immense. The front row were all exceptional and destroyed [...]

Lessons in Rugby Power from the RWC 2011 Round 2 Weekend Fixtures

September 19th, 2011 · 1 Comment · World Cup

This weekends fixtures in the Rugby World Cup showed yet again how far the lower tier nations have come in the last few years.
Georgia were immense against England. They are now getting to the stage where their raw strength and power is now being expressed in rugby playing terms.
A lot of the former Soviet [...]

Physical Peaking for the Rugby World Cup 2011

September 9th, 2011 · No Comments · General Debates

With the rugby world cup 2011 only about 24 hours away the majority of hard training will have been done.
It’s far easier to reach a physical peak for a one off event or week such as in the Olympics but it is much harder to hold that peak over a 6 week competition (harder still [...]

Guinness Premiership Playoffs Showcase Rugby Power And Rugby Speed From Forwards

May 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Power, Speed

After some awesome displays of forward rugby speed and rugby power over the weekend, here’s my top 3 demonstrations of power and pace from forwards in the Guinness Premiership Playoffs.
In reverse order,
At No. 3….Roger Wilson’s bullocking run from a snaffled line-out take against Saracens. He showed both power and pace to get away from the [...]

French Rugby Speed Merchant – Marc Andreu

March 15th, 2010 · No Comments · General Debates

For anyone who watched the RBS six nations match between France and Italy at the weekend would have seen another example of what I was talking about in this post – http://www.fit4rugby.com/the-athlete-debate/
Now at only 5ft 5in and only 12st Marc Andreu would probably be considered by most rugby enthusiasts to be too diminutive for the [...]