The Science and Practice of Rugby Training

Edited By: Michael Hamlin

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This book links the science behind training and recovery with practical, easy-to-understand examples. It outlines simple tools and techniques to improve rugby player performance, making it an invaluable resource for coaches, players, and sports science professionals.

This book links the increasingly important science behind the training and recovery of rugby players with easy to understand and practical examples of how this…

This book links the increasingly important science behind the training and recovery of rugby players with easy to understand and practical examples of how this knowledge can be implemented on the training field or in the gym. The book is unique in the way that it outlines simple tools and techniques to improve rugby player performance. The book covers the latest scientific evidence on common training practices and theories and sums up their practical use for rugby players. The book will be an invaluable resource for those interested in the scientific training approach to team sport players including coaches, strength and conditioning personnel, physiotherapists, and sport doctors along with students and sports enthusiasts. In addition, while the practical examples used in the book are specific to rugby players, the scientific knowledge within the book would be useful to many athletes and coaches thereby increasing the scope of the book to many sports.

Michael Hamlin is Professor of Sport and Exercise Science at Lincoln University in Christchurch New Zealand. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed journal articles, edited a book on sports medicine, authored several book chapters and has given over 150 conference presentations. He is also the Director of the Lincoln University Sport and Exercise Science Research Laboratory and Academic Coordinator of the Lincoln University Sport Scholarship Program. As well as being a prolific researcher and publisher, he has also coached both junior and senior rugby for the last 20 years, giving him considerable practical knowledge to go along with his scientific knowledge of sport.

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