Posts Tagged ‘strength’
Strongman Training with Glenn Ross
Grip is a tough thing to train. “A shin bone takes 4 hours to cook” according to Glenn Ross, and the forearm is just as tough. Grip can be trained specifically 3 times a week, at the end of your normal workout.
Read More30 years of strength training
45 today!
I first started strength training when I was 15 years old. My Dad had given me his old power bar and I started using that in my bedroom doing curls, presses and squats. I had no idea what I was doing, but I was doing something. I worked at my part time jobs for six months to save up for a set of plastic spinlock dumbbells and a flimsy bench with bar rack.
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 MoreMonitoring and Assessment of Strength and Power in High Performance Athletes- Mike McGuigan lecture review UKSCA conference
Mike McGuigan works for the New Zealand Academy of Sport and has moved from sports science to coaching. He reviewed how he collects data, but more importantly how he can use it to help the coaches and athletes within the sports.
Read MoreStrength and Power Concepts, Jim Radcliffe
“The best way to get in shape is not to get out of shape.”
Jim Radcliffe has been coaching at Oregon University for 26 years (That is longer than most “S&C coaches” in the UK have been alive). Unlike a lot of people who have been in situ for a long time, he isn’t resting on his laurels in a comfort zone of repeating the same thing year after year.
Read MoreStarting Strength Training 3
Ok, so lets look at some of the things I would put into chunks of training.
The session might be divided into:
Warm Up
Session Part1,2…etc
Warm down\ Finisher
The overall priority of each bit must be that it has a specific purpose, it can’t just be doing stuff.
Warm ups: I get athletes moving, so that it can either complement the session, or it is getting them ready to work harder.
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