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Core Training For Rugby
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I have to say that I played for several years as a professional rugby league player before I was taught the importance of training my core.
Core stability is the coordinated effort of the deep muscles of the trunk, pelvis, hips, abdominal muscles and small muscles along the spinal column. These muscles contract together to create force used to hold the spinal column in alignment.
The reason we need to exercise these muscles is to build core strength which supports the spine and provides stability.
Core stability is essential for proper form and mechanics while performing rugby skills.
It is even more important for injury prevention, especially during an intense 80 min rugby match.
I recently spoke to Mike Ferrandino who’s the fitness conditioner for Leeds University Gryphon’s which includes both the rugby league and rugby union teams, about the importance of core exercises.
Here’s a short video with Mike showing some core exercises for the modern rugby player.
There are more core exercises in the download section at www.1RugbyCoach.com
Until next time
Neil
www.1RugbyCoach.com
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Defence – How Do You Coach Communication?
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve received several questions regarding how to coach communication in your defensive line? Some were concerned about only part of their defence talking while others were more interested in having an effective slide.
Both of these are to be addressed if you wish to have an effective defensive structure. Firstly I’d just like to point out that if you’re implimenting a slide defence, it should only be utilised when you’re out-numbered or stretched and you’re having to over work at reducing the threat.
A couple of coaching points to try are;
1. In your training sessions, try to split your defence into 3 groups, left, right and middle. So your left side wing, centre, second row, half, same for the right with the loose floating and the middle consists of your front row.
2. When performing defence drills, play them against each other with penalties for the losing groups.
3. Point out that every defender only has to talk to the guy next to them
4. Once the ball goes past a defender it’s his job to increase their talk. i.e. the talk always comes from the inside when a slide defence is in operation.
5. Stop the session if the line is breached and ask the players who was at fault and how could it have been averted.
Usually after a couple of errors the players become more aware and switch on to their particular role in the slide defence.
The other advantage of working in their groups in training is they gain more of a bond and it becomes quite competitive between the groups as to who’s performing the best i.e. where are the tries being scored?
For a more in depth view on defence drills plus video go to;
Neil Harmon
http://www.1RugbyCoach.com
