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INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL (Books)

Total Training for Rugby Fitness

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 educational book is stacked full of hundreds of clear photographic exercises with specific guidelines on fitness testing, strength, speed, power, endurance, cross training and 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.

Strength Ball Training Book

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. 

Strength Training Anatomy Book

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.

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.

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.
 

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.

   
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL (CD’s & DVD’s)

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.

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 & Agillity 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.

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.

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.
 

‘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.
 

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.
 

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.

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