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Conditioning

RWD Man

Welcome to the RWD Rugby Conditioning Resource.

RWD has as our goal to not only be a social media for Rugby but also a total Rugby resource. Use RWD to find people, teams, clubs and services and also use RWD as an information sharing and exchange resource. We all know that Rugby demands a lot from our bodies. To have the most fun playing Rugby you'll want to be fit and strong in the right way. Find everything you need to get conditioned for Rugby right here.

Strength and Conditioning

- Coming Soon -

RWD couldn't believe it's eyes as we drove to the beach from the gym. Ring muscle ups and get ups...on the Rugby pitch....Epic...Find out who they are here...

The Deadlift Highpull

We've included the Olympic lift the Clean in our programmes! If there's no time to learn this lift properly, then do the Deadlift Highpull! Like the All Blacks do! See how here!

CrossFit and Rugby | Crossfit Endemic

We at RWD think that CrossFit is great for Rugby. Clayton | CrossFit Endemic, Colorado | agrees. Here an excellent article on CrossFit conditioning for Rugby.

Power Clean Phases

Clayton from CrossFit Endemic shows you how to learn the Power Clean!

The Squat Clean Programme

When RWD was in Perth, Western Australia, we met Nick Emmerton, Personal Trainer and Power Lifter. He put together a programme built around squatting and power cleaning. After doing this programme we have "RWD Certified" it. Click through to find out why!

51 habits muscle building habits

In preparing for the RWD Conditioning page and while researching Rugby conditioning we stumbled accross these 51 essential training tips. They were written by blogger Jason Ferrugia and immediately rang a bell with us. This is essential reading if you want to train properly for Rugby. Below our top 5 and click through for the full 51.

The POWER BAND SCRUM

Vincent Grimbergen, Captain of the Dutch National Team, spent this summer recovering from a season ending knee injury. See here how Ross Watson, physio and performance coach, helped Vincent return stronger than ever.

TWO DAY GRASSROOTS CONDITIONING

Sportja, the elite gym, has put together the perfect grassroots Rugby level in season mobility and weights programme. It's "RWD Certified"! Click through to check it out.

all blacks in the gym

Love them or hate them. See here what they do in the gym!

Hypertrophy Specific Training

Want to put on muscle fast! Ex Dutch international Ian van der Werf and Strength and Conditioning Trainer explains how!

Takes on preseason

Here four videos showing different takes on preseason training from around the professional Rugby world.

Rugby Students Big Lift Comp

Here four videos showing Dutch Student National Team members in a BIG LIFT competition! This was all about raising lifting awareness and breaking personal bests. Marc van der Niet, aside from playing Rugby, went on to compete in the Dtuch National Power Lifting Competition. Check out the vid below and click through to see all the vids.

Posted by Marc van der Niet on Sunday, 13 November 2016

The Balance Programme

Sven, a Power Lifter and Personal trainer at Sportja put this programme together at RWD's request. We cycled through this for 8 weeks and are more than happy to have it "RWD Certified"! Click through to what the programme is and how to do it!

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