How To guides
Your menstrual cycle is unique to you, and managing it around your training is your responsibility. Here’s a step-by-step guide to tracking your menstrual cycle, helping you control your symptoms and gain confidence in coordinating your training with your coaches.
Aerobic fitness is a vital component for rugby players. Here’s how to use your fitness test results to plan your training sessions.
Fitness testing is tough but it’s a fantastic way to see where you are and track progress. Here’s how to complete the Bronco - the chosen method by Harlequins!
The lunge is a very important exercise as it armours against injury and improves our change of direction ability.
Learn the technique and take your training and performance to the next level.
The hinge strengthens the posterior chain - hamstrings, glutes, lower back, mid back - which is vital for spine stability during rugby.
Learn the technique and take your training and performance to the next level.
The squat is a very important exercise in your armoury as it has a lot of carry-over to actions on the pitch.
Learn the technique and take your training and performance to the next level.
Something as simple as doing a proper warm up is often overlooked but it can significantly improve your training outcome and reduce your risk of injury. A RAMP warm up is an effective mantra for all your warm ups be it for a gym session or a game.
We break strength training in to seven movements which define all the human movement patterns that relate to sport. These are: Squat - Hinge - Lunge - Push - Pull - Brace - Twist
The deadlift is one for the most important compound lifts in your armoury. They’re a fantastic way to develop strength related to rugby but you need to have good technique in order to get the most out of it and to perform it safely.
Speed is essential in rugby. Regardless of whether you consider yourself a natural sprinter, developing your speed is crucial for enhancing your performance on the field. Here are some effective drills to include in your warm-ups.
SPEED SPEED SPEED!
FEEPO recommends these two great running education videos to gain some insight into speed development.
Rugby, after all, is a running game. In an average Premier 15s game, players run 7km. Given that the ball is in play for around 40 minutes, this is a serious amount of running in not very much time.
Running is a crucial component of our athleticism. Improving your running technique will set you apart from the rest.
Take a look at these two videos to gain insight in to the biomechanics of running, both acceleration and top speed.
Want to get faster? Check out these speed drills to improve running technique.
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