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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.
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...
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...