Take a break Before you get stuck into pre-season training, you need a good off-season to let your body recover. It’s crucial to give your body time to recuperate from…
Taking Part
Pro’s playbook: Front lineout peel
Want to peel from the lineout like a satsuma enthusiast? Find out how in this Pro Playbook from the May edition of Rugby World in which former Saracens favourite and current academy…
Pro’s playbook: First phase attack!
Forget building the phases like some sort of robot, you can go for the throat at the first point of asking! At least that’s according to London Welsh assistant coach…
Pro’s playbook: chip to score
Forget the cross-field kick, a little dink over the top of a defence can lead to a score! That’s the view of former England head coach Brian Ashton, who told…
Pro’s Playbook: attack either side of a scrum
WHAT do you do from an attacking scrum when it has wheeled one way or another? Don’t panic, in the February edition of Rugby World England Women’s assistant coach Graham Smith tells…
Pro’s Playbook: Back-row attack options
THERE are loads of moves you could do from an attacking scrum, but in the January edition of Rugby World we asked Cornish Pirates’ Ian Davies what he would get his back-row…
Pro’s Playbook: Attacking from the scrum
DO YOU want to bamboozle the opposition from an attacking scrum? Then read on, because in the December edition of Rugby World we asked former Northampton and England fly-half Paul Grayson how…
RW fitness: Hand off like Manu Tuilagi
WATCH THIS video for three gym exercises that will help you get more explosion in your fend so you can impress whilst carrying the ball in heavy traffic, just like…
RW fitness: Jump like Paul O’Connell
WATCH THIS video for three gym exercises that will help you get more height in your jump so you can impress at the lineout like Paul O’Connell. For more details –…
Power and endurance workout
IT’S END of season time! And for many teams, that means it’s the most important few weeks of the year on the pitch. These mini circuits, designed by Harlequins’ head…