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Welcome to Rugby Fitness Training. I am Ben Wilson, I am a conditioning coach and the author the book “Rugby Fitness Training:A Twelve Month Conditioning Programme”
This website will help you improve your fitness on the rugby field as a player or improve that of your team if you are a rugby coach. The methods I use are drawn from a variety of different areas. I send out regular articles and videos to help you improve your rugby.
Conditioning Fundamentals – Training Protocols
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...
Social Touch Rugby
Hi, This weekend I have a touch rugby tournament to celebrate 5 years of my "Social Touch Rugby Group" here in London. I set it up because I had stopped playing rugby and wanted a run out. The touch leagues were full of people who were total a**es when it came to the...
Conditioning fundamentals – Below The Surface
In the first part I covered the very foundations that rugby training comprises that rugby coaches and players should udnerstand. This refers to the base conditioning. If every player covered this in their plans they would attain a far higher level of performance and...
Conditioning Fundamentals – The Foundations of Performance
In this 3 part series I am going to return the fundamentals of training. I speak to lots of rugby coaches and players each week and it still amazes me how most people don’t grasp the foundations upon which the advanced stuff is built. In this 3 part series I will...
Star Performer Blueprint – Sprinting Faster
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
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...