rugby positions handbook

POSITION-SPECIFIC RUGBY SKILLS HANDBOOK

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POSITION-SPECIFIC

RUGBY SKILLS HANDBOOK

Thanks in advance for downloading the Ruck Science position-specific rugby skills handbook. This handbook is designed for amateur rugby players, coaches and parents as a guide to creating tailored training programs that meet the needs of each individual position on a rugby team. 

The handbook will take readers through the specific physical and technical demands of each position (Forwards and Backs) as well as the training associated with building the requisite skill set. To dig deeper, download our training app and get to work!

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WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THE HANDBOOK?

  • About this handbook
  • Physical preparation for rugby
  • Warming up
  • Cooling down
  • Key rugby skills
  • Healthy eating
  • Prop
  • Hooker
  • Lock
  • Flanker
  • Number 8
  • Scrumhalf
  • Flyhalf
  • Center
  • Wing
  • Fullback

BACKGROUND

ABOUT OUR SKILLS HANDBOOK

We would like to use this opportunity to thank several organizations without whom this handbook would not have been possible. Firstly, the Canadian Rugby Union who created a similar guide in 2009. This version has drawn a lot of inspiration from that original work which was itself a derivative of a manual set up by the English Rugby Union. 

Secondly, the writing team of Tudor Bompa & Frederick Claro whose trans-formative work Periodization in Rugby was also published in 2009. “Periodization in Rugby” is, without a doubt, the most complete analysis of periodized training for amateur rugby players and should be essential reading for all rugby coaches who are working with young players.

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