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Program Outline: Burlington Rugby Football Club's 2022 Offseason Strength and Conditioning

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Strength & Conditioning Packet 2022     Rugby Union is a sport that requires strong anaerobic and aerobic capacities from the players. 15 players for each team play 40 minute halves running like soccer players and hitting like football players. Over 13 weeks this program looks to focus on developing many of the necessary qualities of the athletes, while also meeting the athletes where they are at due to varying training ages. This concurrent program can have the flexibility to be implemented by novice to advanced athletes.      This training program is broken down into a standard triphasic model where three week blocks are used to progress the athlete from owning the patterns to explosively executing the lifts with confidence. Given the schedule of the club, the program is designed with two 90 minute sessions per week. This program can be modified to a four days per week program. One would do this by moving the conditioning to its own 45 ...