Star Performer – Nutrition and Controlling Hunger

I have posted a video today on the issue of nutrition and hunger. It discusses how to vary your macro nutrients to control hunger and how different elements affect your food cravings. This is vitally important for optimising results from your training plan. This video...

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

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 Training – Fascia

The fascial system is more widespread than the muscular system within the body yet very rarely people have heard of it. The fascia is a dense connective tissue that surrounds the muscles, bones, nerves and blood vessels of the body. It is the framework which holds the...

Rugby Fitness Testing – Star Performer

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...

Rugby Flexibility & Warm-Up – Star Performer

The main goal of flexibility training is to restore posture to more ideal realms. This involves unlocking joints and looking to return the spine to a more ideal alignment through stretching of the muscles and fascia. When this happens you can see remarkable...

Aerobic Training – Star Performer

Find below a video on aerobic training. It comes from my course for high performance - The Star Performer Blueprint. Aerobic fitness is a foundation upon which all your rugby is based. A lack of an aerobic base will greatly undermine your rugby performance. In this...

Star Performer – Strength Training

Find below a video on strength training without using equipment. It comes from my course for high performance - The Star Performer Blueprint. Rugby is a strength sport. Stronger athletes are faster, push with more force and dominate their opponents.  Take a look at...

Star Performer – Agility Technique

Take a look at this video which is small segment of the agility module in 'The Star Performer Blueprint'- My course for high performance conditioning. One of the big errors made in agility training is forgetting that your speed is based upon a sound technique. In this...

The 11 Types Of Tackle Part 3

In the first part we looked at front on tackles and part two covered side on and diagonal tackles. This leaves tackles from behind. There are five main types of tackles from behind. Backwards – Leg wrap This is the standard from behind tackle. This is quite a rare...