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.
Handling Back Pain in Rugby Players – Rugby Fitness Training
Many Rugby Players suffer back pain to some degree within their playing career. For you it may be very occasional stiffness from game to game but for others it can be severely debilitating and stop them playing for many months. Causes of back pain The pain most...
Leigh Halfpenny's Tackling Technique – Rugby Fitness Training
If you watched the amazing final day of the 6 nations you would have seen a bucket load of tries, a bone crunching hit by Courtney Lawes and Leigh Halfpenny giving himself concussion. The final incident had the commentators and panel pundits all bemoaning the tackling...
Plyometric Exercise – Rugby Speed Training
The following exercises are simple to do and could be done before rugby training if warmed up, during a weights session or after practice However you do them if you consistently add jumps into your plan then you will begin to make improvements in your speed. If you...
How I Got To 4% Body Fat – Rugby Fitness Training
For my recent bodybuilding shows I got myself down to what I would guestimate is about 4% body fat. While much debate exists on actual body fat statistics, some say competitive bodybuilders come in at 2% , others say 4%. I would say I was a couple of % points above...
My First Bodybuilding Show – Rugby Fitness Training
With my rugby playing days behind me I decided to turn my attention to body building. Last month I entered my first body building shows. It has been an accumulation of around 12 months of dedicated training but more realistically two years of general focus. The first...
Measuring Agility – Rugby Fitness Training Agility
Agility training underpins much of rugby performance so it only makes sense to use a test to see if you are improving it from your training. A simple test that looks at lateral and backward elements of agility as well as acceleration/deceleration is the T-test. To...