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Strength and Power in Rugby: Part 3
The Rugby World Cup is in it’s knockout stages. National Fitness adviser Simon Worsnop looks at current strength and power measurements.
Strength and Power Levels
Since the onset of full time professionalism in both sports strength levels have increased so that today’s players possess higher strength levels than similar aged recreational players
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What about the Ruck and Maul?
The ruck is specific to rugby union and is where the tackled player is off his feet and tackled to ground. The average ruck lasts in the region of 4 or 5 seconds and therefore the primary physical determinant for success is power.
Strength and Power Developments in Rugby over the last 10 years.
Now that we have reached the knock out stages of the Rugby World Cup, I thought it would be a good time to review how the game has changed over the last 10 years.
Simon Worsnop is the National Adviser with the England Under 20s team and has kindly written the following post.
Read More10 Fitness Tips and Myths for Rugby: Simon Worsnop
Top level rugby is a complex multi faceted sport.
Rugby union has more individual position specific requirements than rugby league.
At top level training will need to reflect this e.g. static strength and neck strength requirements in scrimmaging forwards that are not required to such an extent in rugby league.
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As you can see from the picture, if it was sold in a can, marketed and advertised in all the health and sport magazines, this would be much more talked about.
Developing young athletes: Jonah Barrington
“Kids are brittle and fickle”
Jonah Barrington, squash legend. I worked with Jonah for 5 years when I was Head of Athletic Development at Millfield school.
He was always a great sounding board on things to do with coaching, squash and life.
He gave a heartfelt presentation to all of the coaches at the school, and I have just uncovered the notes I took. Here are some of his insights:
Read MoreAn Accurate Observation Is Never Wrong or What a Coach Needs to Know: Thomas Kurz
Human physiology (including its expression in human psychology) doesn’t change from decade to decade, not from century to century, hardly from millennium to millennium, so accurate observations of human nature hold true no matter their age.
Read MoreYoung sports people in Oxford get expert support
Excelsior Athletic Development Centre comes to Oxfordshire.
Easter saw the first Athlete Support Day of 2014 for Oxfordshire athletes, with 5 different sports represented.
Preparing to win: athlete support day review
“If you’re getting into the ring with Mike Tyson, your warm up better be good”.
Was the message of my first section of the most recent athlete support day in Exeter. We had 21 players from 8 different sports take part.
The lack of preparation immediately before a match from young sports people constantly needs addressing.
Read MoreSkeletal Muscle Hypertrophy: an overview. Mike Stone
Mike Stone’s lecture about endocrin influences on hypertrophy training.
A review of a lecture I attended at the UKSCA conference a few years ago. T
he lecture was quite technical at a cellular level and offered an overview of different factors affecting the body’s ability to adapt to hypertrophy training.
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