Exercises You Can Do In Work/School – Star Performer Programme

by | Jul 18, 2013

The video today focuses on exercises you can do at work, school or simply at home in front of the TV which will help your body and therefore rugby performance. Many of these build off the previous video about secret techniques that improve your body that you have...

Rugby Fitness Testing – Star Performer

by | Jun 20, 2013

It can be  really helpful if you periodically measure your fitness (2-4 times a year). From this you can then chart progress and identify weaknesses. This means you can set out the fastest way to increase on field performance. The video shows some simple tests to do...

The 11 Types Of Tackle Part 2

by | Dec 6, 2012

In the first part we looked at front on tackles. In this part we are looking at side on tackles, these represent the majority of tackles during a rugby match, coming from either directly side on to diagonal or as a result of the ball carrier trying to run around you...

Conditioning Fundamentals – Training Protocols

by | Sep 20, 2012

Conditioning fundamentals – Part 3  In part 1, we looked at the foundations of rugby training and base level conditioning that should be key to any rugby coaching you do with your players. In part 2 we went deep to look at what was underneath the reasons why one...

Star Performer Blueprint – Sprinting Faster

by | Sep 4, 2012

Most players and coaches think speed is just running fast. If only it was that simple. Speed can be broken down into acceleration, max speed and speed endurance. To this, each area can be developed with different techniques and conditioning methods. Below is a video...

Team Coaching Verses One on One Mentoring

by | Aug 30, 2012

If you are involved with coaching rugby players then you will either be working with them in a team type environment (you are a rugby coach) or in a one on one type situation, helping your star pupil, your son etc to get better at rugby. The approach for each one...