Strength and conditioning training based on muscle movements rather than muscle groups
Fitness
Nutrition: How to drink your milk
Do you increase or decrease this in line with your training week or when you play? According to performance nutritionist James Morehen, milk is a brilliant drink to consume daily…
Nutrition: How to eat in the off-season
As you’re no longer in a hurry, on days when training doesn’t eat into your schedule you don’t have to chuck everything in a blender and whizz up a five-minute…
Nutrition: How to consume caffeine
Having once been a banned substance – before being allowed again in 2004 – there is still a prevailing perception that it can only hinder your athletic output. But according…
Nutrition: How to take on creatine naturally
“With creatine, you should be advised by qualified people,” says rugby nutritionist James Morehen, from Liverpool John Moores University. “But creatine is naturally occurring, and the phosphocreatine system helps provide…
Nutrition: How to fuel busy weeks
It’s tough mentally to go back-to-back and it’s hard to eat correctly for that. According to rugby nutritionist James Morehen, from Liverpool John Moores University, there is a right way…
Nutrition: How to fuel pre-season
This year you want to take it seriously – we’re talking about three conditioning sessions a week at least, plus weights – and you are going to be sore. In…
Nutrition: How to get your proteins
Ideally, players should consume 2g of protein per kilo of body weight when trying to bulk up – so if you weigh 100kg you need 200g of protein a day…