How to eat right at rugby 7s tournaments
Tim Howard
06/14/2016
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Getting ready for rugby 7s season? If you’ve been playing 15s rugby for most of the year, you’ll want to make a quick transition from 15s to 7s. The two most common versions of rugby require two vastly different physical and technical skill sets.
While fifteens requires significant strength, sevens is more about speed and agility. To get you in shape for rugby 7s season, we’ve created this compilation of eleven rugby 7s conditioning sessions. Coming soon to the Ruck Science mobile app.
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Before you begin any of these sessions it is important that you spend at least 10:00 minutes warming up and getting your body ready to work at the intensity required during these sessions. Training to improve your acceleration and speed requires you to perform each effort during the session at a maximal intensity, therefore your body needs to be prepared to operate at this level to ensure you do not su er any injuries. You should complete a warm-up along the same structure that is used prior to our usual trainings.
Easy jog & skip 300m – Alternate efforts of 50m skipping and jogging up and back a rugby field
A-Skips over 20m – Complete 3 X 20m with an easy low skip back to the start each time. Concentrate on keeping upper body up right (tall posture), relaxed full arm swing from the shoulders, punching your feet into the ground, big split between legs each skip.
Carioca over 20m – Running sideways concentrating on accelerating rear knee through with each stride and getting separation between torso and lower body.
High knee runs over 20m – Complete 3 X 20m with an easy skip back to the start line each time – Focus on keeping upper body up right (tall posture), relaxed arm drive with the swing coming from the shoulders, powerful foot contact with the ground, quick foot contact with the ground, toe up on foot contact with the ground.
Butt kick runs over 20m – Complete 3 X 20m with an easy skip back to the start line each time – Focus points as outlined above but this time kicking heels back up towards butt
Walking lunges – Complete 5 walking lunges each leg – Focus on keeping upper body upright, feeling a stretch in the hip flexor and quadriceps in your back leg and the hamstring in your front leg each lunge, hold the bottom lunge position for 2 seconds each time.
MORE WARMUPS IN THE PROGRAM…
This eBook contains practical, easy to follow rugby sevens conditioning sessions. But Your 7s education shouldn’t stop here. To learn more about the game of rugby sevens, we highly recommend taking the time to read these blog posts which will help you transition to sevens at the end of the fifteens season and also appreciate a data-driven approach to rugby 7s tactics.
These rugby 7s conditioning sessions are sourced from training materials used by the USA Eagles and Australian rugby 7s programs. These are tow of the best conditioned rugby sevens teams on the planet. If you’ve ever wanted to train like Carlin Isles or Ed Jenkins, these conditioning programs are a great starting point.
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