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11 RUGBY 7s CONDITIONING SESSIONS

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11 RUGBY 7s CONDITIONG SESSIONS

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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HOW IS RUGBY 7s CONDITIONING DIFFERENT?

rugby 7s running

much, much, much more running than you're used to

less upper body strength training than during 15s season

focus body composition rugby 7s

greater emphasis on body composition and getting lean

BACKGROUND

WARMING UP FOR 7s CONDITIONING

 

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.

WARMUP EXERCISES

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…

SAMPLE PROGRAM – Distance: 450m

SESSION 3 – Acceleration + Directional Changes

FORWARDS/BACKWARDS

  • Place markers at 5m/10m/20m
  • Starting on the try line on your stomach, get up as quickly as you can and accelerate
    through to the 5m line
  • Stop as quickly as you can once you pass the 5m line
  • Accelerate backwards to the try line as quickly as you can
  • Once you reach the try line accelerate forwards as fast as you can to the 20m marker
  • The idea of this drill is to cover the total distance as quickly as you can
  • Easy walk back to the start
  • Repeat 5 X 150m
  • Start at different body positions for each effort- stomach, back, sitting, kneeling, standing
  • 3:00 minutes for recovery/drink
  • Repeat 5 X efforts – 150m

ACCELERATION + LEFT/RIGHT

  • With a 5m rolling start accelerate hard through to 10m
  • At the 10m marker cut hard to either the left or right and continue to accelerate as hard as you can for 5m
  • When you change direction concentrate on maintaining stride rate (don’t slow down)
  • Plant your outside foot hard and drive off
  • Keep arm drive fast and strong
  • Distance of each effort is 15m
  • Easy walk back recovery between each effort
  • Repeat 5 X efforts – 75m
  • 3:00 minutes recovery/drink
  • Repeat 5 X efforts – 75m

... OR TRAIN LIKE CARLIN ISLES

BLOG POSTS

That touch on rugby 7s conditioning

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. 

SUPPLEMENT STACKS

ideal for rugby players during 7s season training

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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