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Warm-Ups

Warm-ups and cool-downs are two of the most important aspects of your training and match day routines.

 

It’s vital that your players warm-up and cool-down properly in order to maximise their performance and reduce the risk of injury. We tell you how and why warm-ups and cool-downs work and we suggest some warm-up drills that you might try with your team.

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Coaching safe and creative ways to fall

Coaching safe and creative ways to fall

Coach learning researcher and rugby coach DR ANNA STODTER explains how to develop contact confidence at a pace that suits the players in ...
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Wicked warm-ups

Wicked warm-ups

Get your session buzzing with these warm-up activities. By using games, chaos and movement, players use the key physical literacy skills ...
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Pre-match warm-up

Pre-match warm-up

The language we use is pivotal to our coaching. The words we speak create meaning, shape experiences and form our understanding. In my vi...
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Get players primed

Get players primed

Ensuring the warm-up is well-suited to both training and matches is essential for any coach. EAMONN HOGAN explores various approaches to ...
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Skill MOTs: enhancing attacks via 'ABC' skills

Skill MOTs: enhancing attacks via 'ABC' skills

Create good habits with a focused programme which reinforces the core skills. By KRIS STAFFORD, rugby development officer at Leeds Becket...
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Bounce attack game

Bounce attack game

This warm-up game helps attackers and defenders weigh up options quickly. It is ideal for sevens training. By JAMIE BARNWELL, Cayman Isla...
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The RAMP warm-up

The RAMP warm-up

Prepare your players for training, reduce injury risk and support them mentally and physically as well. By strength and conditioning coac...
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Speed training exercises for soccer players

Speed training exercises for soccer players

A circuit to train core running skills – changing direction and pace, accelerating and running backwards or sideways. By Paul Tyler and D...
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Rugby Coach Weekly Issue 192

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    Energising players in cold and wet weather

    Energising players in cold and wet weather

    AMY ELDERFIELD, a teacher at Gordon’s School in Surrey, describes the way she inspires her girls to get involved in poor conditions – using ...
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    Four ways to ensure training starts on time

    Four ways to ensure training starts on time

    Use these tips to avoid lateness eating into your sessions.
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    Improve your rondos

    Improve your rondos

    Small-sided games with lots of repetitions can energise a group. But consider when, where and how to use them, says coach developer GRANT HA...
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    Conditioning and skills

    Conditioning and skills

    A mix of conditioning and conditioned games - an ideal blast, mid-season, to boost the players’ fitness while still working on skills. By DA...
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    Making your players 'Contact Confident'

    Making your players 'Contact Confident'

    From landing safely to ensuring player and coach buy-in, an introduction to World Rugby’s new resource from one of its key drivers, DR ANNA ...
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    Natural footwork v drilled footwork

    Natural footwork v drilled footwork

    How far should you go in developing better evasion skills by setting up footwork exercises without defenders? Is it better to let them play ...
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    Deck hands

    Deck hands

    Ged Hall challenges players to be effective in finding space and passing, either on their feet or from the ground (the deck!). Good for ...
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    3D square attack and pluses

    3D square attack and pluses

    Keep the players thinking about where to attack as the defence move around dynamically, adding in players as the attack becomes more ...
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    Game: Catch them out

    Game: Catch them out

    Use this game of catch, pass and movement to work on players’ quickness, high ball awareness and ability to handle under pressure. You can ...
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    Game: Don't get tagged!

    Game: Don't get tagged!

    Use this quick-to-set-up game, including an easy-to-adapt playground element, with rewards and forfeits thrown in.

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    Warm weather drills and training

    Warm weather drills and training

    When the weather warms up and the grounds get harder, it’s time to reappraise your preparations for matches. Think tactically and practice ...
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    Is your team contact ready? Training drills to use

    Is your team contact ready? Training drills to use

    If you are coaching adult rugby, then you are probably already beginning to put in some elements of contact into your preparation programme ...
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    Warm-up games for contact

    Warm-up games for contact

    Get your players ready for contact with these games. They'll warm up your players’ shoulders and upper bodies in a fun way to prepare for ...
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    My three go-to warm-ups

    My three go-to warm-ups

    "When asked what my three go-to U12s warm-ups are, I have no hesitation in listing them out", says Dan Brockhurst, owner of DB Sports C...
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    Warm up with rondos, the grid game, prison break and blockers

    Warm up with rondos, the grid game, prison break and blockers

    Here are four great warm-up games to energise your players while working on skills and decision-making.

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    Warm-up Rondos

    Warm-up Rondos

    Originating in football, the Rondo is a small sided game that encourages many touches of the ball and can be easily constrained to impact ...

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