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SlugaRuga: Rugby Instructional Material, Rugby Coaching Books
& DVDs
Book:
"Strength Ball Training" by Lorne Goldenberg and
Peter Twist
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
More information: 69 Exercises using Swiss and Medicine Balls.
Written by strength and conditioning experts, strength ball training
is your complete guide to using Swiss and Medicine Balls.
The book describes how to incorporate the balls into a program, and provides hundreds of exercise variations to make training fun and interesting.
Develop your:
» strength
» power
» coordination
» balance
» core stability
using the medicine ball and stability ball exercises included in "Strength Ball Training".
Preferred by elite athletes, fitness experts, and strength and conditioning specialists, these exercises train the body as a linked system rather than targeting muscles in isolation. Exercises start with the core, where most movements are initiated, and then move out to the periphery, combining strength and balance in all the major muscle groups and the supporting muscles.
Companion DVD shows you how to perform the most complex and advanced exercises. "Strength Ball Training" also includes a sample 16-week program with an excellent array of strength, flexibility, and balance challenges that may also be customized to design your own strength ball program.
Book:
"Strength Training Anatomy" by Frederic Delavier
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
More information: An illustrated guide to 111 exercises.
If you're looking for more than a standard strength training book, Strength Training Anatomy is for you.
It's an excellent Anatomical Reference for every fitness and strength training enthusiast and professional.
With over 550,000 copies sold, this book is arguably the best book of its kind. What's it useful for? Mainly to help the reader (from the weekend athlete to the athletic trainer to the professional bodybuilder) figure out what exercises work what muscles.
It's neatly divided up into sections (arms, shoulders, chest, back, etc.) so all you really have to do is flip to one of these sections and it will have detailed pictures of various exercises and exactly which muscles are involved.
Complete Conditioning For Rugby
Modern rugby requires you to have speed, strength, agility, endurance, and power in order to excel. Few sports demand such diverse physical attributes, and no book so comprehensively addresses how to develop them specifically for the sport—until now.
Complete Conditioning for Rugby features first-hand insights from Dan Luger, English rugby star. Luger teams up with leading strength and conditioning coach Paul Pook to provide the very best in conditioning know-how. They present more than 120 position-specific drills and exercises that will help you excel in any match situation you will face:
• Increase speed and agility to succeed in today’s expansive game.
• Build strength to help drive in the tackle and dominate in the ruck or maul.
• Improve endurance to compete to the final whistle.
Survive the rigors of the sport and perform your best with Complete Conditioning for Rugby. You’ll find everything you need to get ahead of the pack.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
Rugby Steps To Success
Rugby: Steps to Success is loaded with all the fundamentals, position-specific techniques, and key tactics needed to be a winner in rugby union competition. Authors from England’s Rugby Football Union provide the expert instruction and special insights for getting an edge on an opponent. This complete instructional book includes sections covering:
• ball handling, passing, and receiving;
• kicking, tackling and contact;
• player positions--front five, middle five, and back five.
With its 73 drills and 176 illustrations, Rugby: Steps to Success is the sport’s perfect practice and learning tool. Step-by-step, players will develop and refine basic individual skills, then move on to execute intermediate-level team tactics. Part of the highly popular Steps to Success Activity Series, this book teaches the essentials needed to compete and win.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
Rugby Tough
Rugby is highly demanding from a physical standpoint. But anyone who has played or coached the sport knows that the mental side of the game separates the best players from the rest. Rugby Tough will give you the mental focus you need to give the game everything you’ve got.
Learn how to apply mental skills effectively in specific match situations and get inside advice from those who’ve played, coached, and studied the game at every competitive level. Through Rugby Tough, you’ll learn new ways to toughen your mindset and eliminate costly mental errors that inhibit your best performance.
Rugby Tough starts with an emphasis on individual player development and the fundamental psychological skills you need to excel at the sport. In later chapters, the focus shifts to the importance of group dynamics and mental strategies in competitive play. From building team cohesiveness to defending and attacking mindsets, you’ll discover all the tools you need to take your game to a whole new level.
For the definitive word on mental preparation, Rugby Tough draws on the experience of coaches and sport psychologists from England, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and the United States. To be among the world’s best, you need the mindset of a champion. To prepare for the ultimate challenge, pick up the ultimate resource.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL: CDs & DVDs
Multistage Fitness Test CD or Tape.
The multistage fitness test is now established as the most reliable and easy to use field test for aerobic endurance. It is used in talent identification programmes in Australia and the UK and many club coaches use it to determine whether their fitness programmes really have been effective.
The test comes with instructions and a table explaining the results, so you don't need to be a scientist to use it! All you need is two markers placed 20 metres apart and your players run between one and the other whilst the time between the bleep becomes progressively shorter.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
Quickness & Agility DVD Volume 1
This Best Selling speed and agility series gives you excellent video instruction on a myriad of specific drills to maximise quick movement and sports performance.
Quickness & Agility DVD Volume 2
This Best Selling speed and agility series gives you excellent video instruction on a myriad of specific drills to maximise quick movement and sports performance.
Super Agility Multi-Coloured Ladder DVD
See how to get the most out of the latest, most versatile, fun and popular multi-coloured agility ladder.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL (Circuit Cards)
Sports/Fitness Circuit Cards
101 encapsulated circuit cards on partner, plyometric, resistance and medicine ball exercises.
Ladder & Hurdle Circuit Cards
20 specific exercise cards on hurdle and ladder drills
Junior Multi-Coloured Ladder Circuit Card Set
Get the most out of the latest in agility training with this hard wearing laminated exercise set. Includes 8 full colour sheets featuring one multi-coloured ladder exercise per sheet. Ideal for circuit stations or clear instruction.
Senior Multi-Coloured Ladder Circuit Card Set
Get the most out of the latest in agility training with this hard wearing laminated exercise set. Includes 8 full colour sheets featuring one multi-coloured ladder exercise per sheet. Ideal for circuit stations or clear instruction.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL (Rugby Union Specific)
Top Coaches Series Vol. 1 (DVD)
Counter Attack with Paul Hull. Assistant Coach, London Irish.
On Early Ball with Rob Smith, Manager, Harlequins.
Coaching Rugby Sevens with A Hicking. British Army Rugby.
Coach refereeing Sevens with Steve Lander, England Referee.
Top Coaches Series Vol. 2 (DVD)
On the Offload with Andy Robinson, England Head Coach
The French Method of Coaching with Pierre Villepreux, International Coach
Basic Movements in Open Play with Fabrice Brochard French Federation
Technical Officer and U17’s Coach
Building a Scrum with Brian O’Shea, Australian Rugby Coach.
Top Coaches Series Vol. 3 (DVD)
Continuity with Wayne Smith, Northampton Saints head coach and All Blacks Coach.
Decision Making with Kevin Bowring, RFU’s Head of Elite Coaching.
Understanding the Game with Mark Nelson, Coaching team for the England Counties side.
Top Coaches Series Vol. 4 (DVD)
‘The Framework of the Attacking Game’ A presentation and practical session with Brian Ashton, the National Academy manager
‘Defence’ A practical session with accompanying explanation of theory by John Kingston, the coach at Harlequins.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL (Rugby Union Specific)
Top Coaches Series Vol. 5 (DVD)
Didier Retiere shows a practical on lineout training variations. Retiere works as a forward coach for FFR and has involvement with many of the national sides, especially U21’s and XVS.
Tony Stanger, the London Irish Movement Skills Coach, shows a practical on movement skills. The Weight training Coach for The Harlequins, David Bell, gives a practical guide to weight training.
Top Coaches Series Vol. 6 (DVD)
Mike Penistone, the defence coach for Leicester Tigers, gives a presentation and practical on tackling skills in defensive organisation.
Paul Hull, assistant backs coach for London Irish, demonstrates how to get the best out of your attacking back line.
Understanding the Game (Video)
Understanding the Game: The Winning Edge (Video) Author: Don Rutherford, RFU Technical Director, 2003. This excellent video, packed with live footage and practical demonstrations, presents an overview of the basics of rugby, backed up with diagrams of play and frozen screen shots. Includes sections on understanding the need to run straight, attacking the short side, tackles, gaining possession from your kicks, winning kick-outs, counter-attack, substitutes and pressure points.
Mini Midi Coaches Collection (CD-ROM)
Mini/Midi Rugby is a modified version of rugby designed to teach youngsters core skills. This excellent CD-ROM features scores of drills for mini/midi rugby players aged 5-11 years. The drills cover scrums, tackles, triggers and warming up for young rugby players. The coach explains the drills and the youngsters demonstrate correct execution of each drill.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL (Rugby Union Specific)
Positional Skills (CD-ROM)
Author: Corin Palmer, London Irish’s Academy Manager, 2003
Compiled by key members of the London Irish Team, this excellent CD-ROM features a 40-minute the London Irish second row in action in an International Rugby Game against Ireland.
During the footage the voice over highlights key drills and coaching tips.
Topics covered include – scrums, lineouts, possession, body position, restarts, individual tackling, team defences, contact, catching and hand power lifts, broken play and handling.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
CALL US ON 01475 732000 FOR LATEST PRICES & DISCOUNTS.
Book:
"Total Training for Rugby Fitness"
by Graham Lowe
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
More information: Written by New Zealand’s most respected and
successful professional rugby trainer Graham Lowe,
and featuring international superstar Tana Umaga,
this book gives you all you
need to know to stay
ahead of the pack!
The training secrets that propelled Tana to one of
the worlds best ever players
can now be
yours to use.
This easy to follow book is stacked full
of hundreds of
clear photographic exercises.
Specific Guidelines:
» fitness testing
» strength
» speed
» power
» endurance
» cross training
» flexibility
The comprehensive planning guidelines offer
direction for beginner, intermediate,
and advanced fitness levels making this book essential reading for players and
coaches of all levels.
Book:
"Strength Ball Training" by Lorne Goldenberg and
Peter Twist-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
More information: 69 Exercises using Swiss and Medicine Balls.
Written by strength and conditioning experts, strength ball training
is your complete guide to using Swiss and Medicine Balls.
The book describes how to incorporate the balls into a program, and provides hundreds of exercise variations to make training fun and interesting.
Develop your:
» strength
» power
» coordination
» balance
» core stability
using the medicine ball and stability ball exercises included in "Strength Ball Training".
Preferred by elite athletes, fitness experts, and strength and conditioning specialists, these exercises train the body as a linked system rather than targeting muscles in isolation. Exercises start with the core, where most movements are initiated, and then move out to the periphery, combining strength and balance in all the major muscle groups and the supporting muscles.
Companion DVD shows you how to perform the most complex and advanced exercises. "Strength Ball Training" also includes a sample 16-week program with an excellent array of strength, flexibility, and balance challenges that may also be customized to design your own strength ball program.
Book:
"Strength Training Anatomy" by Frederic Delavier------------------------------------------------------------------------------
More information: An illustrated guide to 111 exercises.
If you're looking for more than a standard strength training book, Strength Training Anatomy is for you.
It's an excellent Anatomical Reference for every fitness and strength training enthusiast and professional.
With over 550,000 copies sold, this book is arguably the best book of its kind. What's it useful for? Mainly to help the reader (from the weekend athlete to the athletic trainer to the professional bodybuilder) figure out what exercises work what muscles.
It's neatly divided up into sections (arms, shoulders, chest, back, etc.) so all you really have to do is flip to one of these sections and it will have detailed pictures of various exercises and exactly which muscles are involved.
Complete Conditioning For Rugby
Modern rugby requires you to have speed, strength, agility, endurance, and power in order to excel. Few sports demand such diverse physical attributes, and no book so comprehensively addresses how to develop them specifically for the sport—until now.
Complete Conditioning for Rugby features first-hand insights from Dan Luger, English rugby star. Luger teams up with leading strength and conditioning coach Paul Pook to provide the very best in conditioning know-how. They present more than 120 position-specific drills and exercises that will help you excel in any match situation you will face:
• Increase speed and agility to succeed in today’s expansive game.
• Build strength to help drive in the tackle and dominate in the ruck or maul.
• Improve endurance to compete to the final whistle.
Survive the rigors of the sport and perform your best with Complete Conditioning for Rugby. You’ll find everything you need to get ahead of the pack.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
Rugby Steps To Success
Rugby: Steps to Success is loaded with all the fundamentals, position-specific techniques, and key tactics needed to be a winner in rugby union competition. Authors from England’s Rugby Football Union provide the expert instruction and special insights for getting an edge on an opponent. This complete instructional book includes sections covering:
• ball handling, passing, and receiving;
• kicking, tackling and contact;
• player positions--front five, middle five, and back five.
With its 73 drills and 176 illustrations, Rugby: Steps to Success is the sport’s perfect practice and learning tool. Step-by-step, players will develop and refine basic individual skills, then move on to execute intermediate-level team tactics. Part of the highly popular Steps to Success Activity Series, this book teaches the essentials needed to compete and win.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
Rugby Tough
Rugby is highly demanding from a physical standpoint. But anyone who has played or coached the sport knows that the mental side of the game separates the best players from the rest. Rugby Tough will give you the mental focus you need to give the game everything you’ve got.
Learn how to apply mental skills effectively in specific match situations and get inside advice from those who’ve played, coached, and studied the game at every competitive level. Through Rugby Tough, you’ll learn new ways to toughen your mindset and eliminate costly mental errors that inhibit your best performance.
Rugby Tough starts with an emphasis on individual player development and the fundamental psychological skills you need to excel at the sport. In later chapters, the focus shifts to the importance of group dynamics and mental strategies in competitive play. From building team cohesiveness to defending and attacking mindsets, you’ll discover all the tools you need to take your game to a whole new level.
For the definitive word on mental preparation, Rugby Tough draws on the experience of coaches and sport psychologists from England, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and the United States. To be among the world’s best, you need the mindset of a champion. To prepare for the ultimate challenge, pick up the ultimate resource.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL: CDs & DVDs
Multistage Fitness Test CD or Tape.
The multistage fitness test is now established as the most reliable and easy to use field test for aerobic endurance. It is used in talent identification programmes in Australia and the UK and many club coaches use it to determine whether their fitness programmes really have been effective.
The test comes with instructions and a table explaining the results, so you don't need to be a scientist to use it! All you need is two markers placed 20 metres apart and your players run between one and the other whilst the time between the bleep becomes progressively shorter.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
Quickness & Agility DVD Volume 1
This Best Selling speed and agility series gives you excellent video instruction on a myriad of specific drills to maximise quick movement and sports performance.
Quickness & Agility DVD Volume 2
This Best Selling speed and agility series gives you excellent video instruction on a myriad of specific drills to maximise quick movement and sports performance.
Super Agility Multi-Coloured Ladder DVD
See how to get the most out of the latest, most versatile, fun and popular multi-coloured agility ladder.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL (Circuit Cards)
Sports/Fitness Circuit Cards
101 encapsulated circuit cards on partner, plyometric, resistance and medicine ball exercises.
Ladder & Hurdle Circuit Cards
20 specific exercise cards on hurdle and ladder drills
Junior Multi-Coloured Ladder Circuit Card Set
Get the most out of the latest in agility training with this hard wearing laminated exercise set. Includes 8 full colour sheets featuring one multi-coloured ladder exercise per sheet. Ideal for circuit stations or clear instruction.
Senior Multi-Coloured Ladder Circuit Card Set
Get the most out of the latest in agility training with this hard wearing laminated exercise set. Includes 8 full colour sheets featuring one multi-coloured ladder exercise per sheet. Ideal for circuit stations or clear instruction.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL (Rugby Union Specific)
Top Coaches Series Vol. 1 (DVD)
Counter Attack with Paul Hull. Assistant Coach, London Irish.
On Early Ball with Rob Smith, Manager, Harlequins.
Coaching Rugby Sevens with A Hicking. British Army Rugby.
Coach refereeing Sevens with Steve Lander, England Referee.
Top Coaches Series Vol. 2 (DVD)
On the Offload with Andy Robinson, England Head Coach
The French Method of Coaching with Pierre Villepreux, International Coach
Basic Movements in Open Play with Fabrice Brochard French Federation
Technical Officer and U17’s Coach
Building a Scrum with Brian O’Shea, Australian Rugby Coach.
Top Coaches Series Vol. 3 (DVD)
Continuity with Wayne Smith, Northampton Saints head coach and All Blacks Coach.
Decision Making with Kevin Bowring, RFU’s Head of Elite Coaching.
Understanding the Game with Mark Nelson, Coaching team for the England Counties side.
Top Coaches Series Vol. 4 (DVD)
‘The Framework of the Attacking Game’ A presentation and practical session with Brian Ashton, the National Academy manager
‘Defence’ A practical session with accompanying explanation of theory by John Kingston, the coach at Harlequins.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL (Rugby Union Specific)
Top Coaches Series Vol. 5 (DVD)
Didier Retiere shows a practical on lineout training variations. Retiere works as a forward coach for FFR and has involvement with many of the national sides, especially U21’s and XVS.
Tony Stanger, the London Irish Movement Skills Coach, shows a practical on movement skills. The Weight training Coach for The Harlequins, David Bell, gives a practical guide to weight training.
Top Coaches Series Vol. 6 (DVD)
Mike Penistone, the defence coach for Leicester Tigers, gives a presentation and practical on tackling skills in defensive organisation.
Paul Hull, assistant backs coach for London Irish, demonstrates how to get the best out of your attacking back line.
Understanding the Game (Video)
Understanding the Game: The Winning Edge (Video) Author: Don Rutherford, RFU Technical Director, 2003. This excellent video, packed with live footage and practical demonstrations, presents an overview of the basics of rugby, backed up with diagrams of play and frozen screen shots. Includes sections on understanding the need to run straight, attacking the short side, tackles, gaining possession from your kicks, winning kick-outs, counter-attack, substitutes and pressure points.
Mini Midi Coaches Collection (CD-ROM)
Mini/Midi Rugby is a modified version of rugby designed to teach youngsters core skills. This excellent CD-ROM features scores of drills for mini/midi rugby players aged 5-11 years. The drills cover scrums, tackles, triggers and warming up for young rugby players. The coach explains the drills and the youngsters demonstrate correct execution of each drill.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL (Rugby Union Specific)
Positional Skills (CD-ROM)
Author: Corin Palmer, London Irish’s Academy Manager, 2003
Compiled by key members of the London Irish Team, this excellent CD-ROM features a 40-minute the London Irish second row in action in an International Rugby Game against Ireland.
During the footage the voice over highlights key drills and coaching tips.
Topics covered include – scrums, lineouts, possession, body position, restarts, individual tackling, team defences, contact, catching and hand power lifts, broken play and handling.
£CALL FOR PRICE.
CALL US ON 01475 732000 FOR LATEST PRICES & DISCOUNTS.
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