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Strength and Conditioning for Rugby Union
Joel Brannigan
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Description for Strength and Conditioning for Rugby Union
Paperback. Rugby Union as a sport has seen continual evolution over the years, and never more so than since the game officially became professional in 1995. This book details a structure of assessing rugby players that in turn allows appropriate training interventions to be planned out and, most importantly, coached to a wide range of rugby playing levels. Num Pages: 160 pages, 210 colour photographs. BIC Classification: WSD; WSJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 172 x 11. Weight in Grams: 402.
Rugby Union as a sport has seen continual evolution over the years, and never more so than since the game officially became professional in 1995. While on the pitch tactics have seen more formalized approaches to skill acquisition, it is off the pitch where the biggest changes have occurred and no area has developed more than strength and conditioning. Players have gone from traditionally training for 'fitness' as an add-on to their rugby training to seeking out structured athletic training interventions. Furthermore, with modern rugby players being physically bigger and faster, the need to ensure that they ... Read more
Rugby Union as a sport has seen continual evolution over the years, and never more so than since the game officially became professional in 1995. While on the pitch tactics have seen more formalized approaches to skill acquisition, it is off the pitch where the biggest changes have occurred and no area has developed more than strength and conditioning. Players have gone from traditionally training for 'fitness' as an add-on to their rugby training to seeking out structured athletic training interventions. Furthermore, with modern rugby players being physically bigger and faster, the need to ensure that they ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Crowood Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Ramsbury, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785000843
SKU
V9781785000843
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Ref
99-5
About Joel Brannigan
During a ten year professional career Joel Brannigan played for Edinburgh, London Welsh RFC and Newcastle Falcons RFC and also represented Scotland at full international level and various lower representative levels. Following retirement in 2004 he pursued a career in the field of strength and conditioning and spent eight years as head of strength and conditioning at the University ... Read more
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