Rugby players have to have a wide range of good fitness traits such as reaction times, strength, and speed and cardio vascular endurance. Some players will excel at certain things, a prop for example might have excellent strength and endurance but might be very slow and have horrible agility and a winger might be extremely fast and have amazing reaction time but have no body strength. Strength, speed and reaction time endurance are the three points I will be talking about in this report. Being strong is a tool used by man since the dawn of time, some people had to work really hard to get it and some people have it passed down in their family. Strength is used in rugby all the time, being able to tackle someone with force requires great strength, …show more content…
Being able to catch a ball is a vital part of rugby, reacting to unexpected passes or tackles makes the difference of winning or losing. Reaction time is one of the hardest things to improve because of its strong genetic link, studies have found the maximum amount you can improve reaction time by is about 10 or 20 per cent with extreme training and discipline. An average adult males reaction time is as follows; 0.25 seconds to a visual stimulus, 0.17 seconds for an audio stimulus and 0.15 seconds for a touch stimulus. In rugby you want to focus on all three but more importantly visual and touch stimulus. Your overall reaction time can be measured using online tests for hand eye reaction time to more physical tests such as the ruler drop test. A point by point method is shown …show more content…
Being able to get somewhere ahead of your opponent means the outcome of your game. As a forward, being able to mix a bit of speed and a lot of strength is very important because being a tank (for say) does not mean squat if you can’t catch anyone. Being fast is something that can be trained over time with constant tuning and work. Exercises such as basic sprinting can be very useful to your build of off speed when worked on, just practicing doing a couple of sprints a day can mean a world of difference. For the majority of people who can’t break into a sprint without a 20 meter or so run up, you can practice fly sprints. Fly sprints involve building up your intensity by starting off with a 30 meter sprint at %50 then for the final 40 or so meters you boost your intensity level to %100. Giving you enough power to start a nice sprint. Once you can now test your speed. For the best results you should test your speed before and after you start training, a simple test can be constructed using a stopwatch, measuring tape and a friend. First mark out how long you your sprint test to be (10 meters, 20 meters etc..) then do a couple of warm up runs, when ready get your friend to time how fast it takes you to sprint to point A to B. Record your results and compare with previous results,
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- I suggested training to improve this type of performance to be done on a treadmill with period of warming up and cooling down period between the test performance period.
The use of the six principles of training by a 100m sprinter would greatly improve the athlete’s performance. This is because the progressive overload, specificity, reversibility, variety, training thresholds and warm up/cool down principles all greatly affect the performance of any athlete. The principles of training can be employed in order to improve all aspects of fitness, from flexibility to strength and aerobic endurance.
There are eight physiological adaptations that a touch football player would experience in response to training; these include a change in stroke volume, heart rate, cardiac output, oxygen uptake, lung capacity, hemoglobin levels, muscle hypertrophy and the effect on slow- and fast-twitch muscle fibers.
There are even steps for cross country runners who aren’t as good as everyone else. The most important step in my opinion is to master walking without anyone seeing you. By doing this it lets people think that you hadn’t walked at all so they will think that you have more endurance than you actually do. Next when you do walk, fast walk. That way your pace isn’t as slow, therefore; it makes it even less noticeable that you walked. Lastly don’t compare yourself to anyone else in the race. You are doing what you can do they just may have been running for a lot longer than you. Set a goal of how fast you want to run and really work towards it. A good thing
A ''running back'' (RB) is the position of a player on an American football team who usually lines up in the Offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running backs are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block. Some athletic traits that a running back will need are Speed, Power, Endurance, Strength and Agility. In football speed over a short distance is very important, running backs need quick feet to help them make short moves laterally, on an angle and forward and backward. Power is used with running backs need to make explosive movements at the start of a point and to continue moving once they hit a defender. Endurance is needed because running backs have to play
It suggests that genes will make it much more difficult for some people to achieve the same performance as other people. Sprinting speed is dependent on fast twitch muscles. The ratio of fast twitch muscles to slow twitch muscles is one component of how professional sprinters are so fast. Sprinters need to “have at least 70 to 80 percent fast twitch muscle fibres” in order to be successful, compared to the global average of 50 percent. (Kelland).
This is essential in football, for example to be able to run out of the goal after the opponent has made a through ball or pass to a who is through on goal. · Agility - the ability to change direction quickly and control movements of the whole body, This is needed to be able to change direction quickly while diving to avoid letting the ball pass the line and to spread your body out to block incoming shots or to collect a loose ball. · Cardiovascular Endurance - the ability of the heart, lungs and
The two main component of fitness used extensively in football is cardiovascular and muscular endurance. Cardiovascular endurance is mainly focused on the respiratory system and it determines how effective your heart is in pump blood and oxygen to the muscles. It also focuses on what level your heart rate is at (bpm) and how much oxygen you physically need when playing sports. Muscular endurance mainly focus on the muscular system and it determines how long you muscles can be physically working for, at both lower and higher intensities, when playing a sport. It is the speed which your muscles take to tire and fatigue. In football, you are having to constantly running around the pitch to either receive passes, create space, run back to your
...ging or weaving to avoid the oppositions, or sometimes when recovering quickly from a collision or fall. Therefore in terms of fitness tests I am doing reasonably well however there are a few areas that need attention to.
Short course sprinting is a good idea. This is where you need speed. Long course concentrates on endurance. Strength is important in all three sports. In hockey and football you need to use muscles to apply force to overcome resistance.
I signed up to run track in the spring and went to summer conditioning for cross country. That’s when my coaches, teammates, and myself noticed that my running has improved significantly from when I first started. I knew that I had to work hard my senior year to achieve my goals for running. Running is a mental sport. The workouts I had to do were brutally painful and I had stay positive throughout the run because I know the training I had to do will help me during a race.
Rugby is a sport which requires extreme aggression and also lots of courage, confidence and dauntlessness to stand your ground. The coache...
is crucial for a top level player to be able to react to fast shots by
Rugby is the true sport of men, because you wear no pads, and it is even more violent than football; however, football requires that you wear pads, thus being the true sport of want-to-be men.