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Lower Body Power & Strength
Ashley Jones
These lower body programs originally came out of deciding to help out a great friend of mine with some advice for assisting with his burgeoning Cycling career. It also gave me an opportunity to gather my thoughts and to organize the many options I have ...
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Hey Ash,
Just a quick 1. I'm about to go into a 5,4,3,2,1 x 4 program, my current upper body program is 3 x push/pull supersets done twice per week. Is this type of program fine for supersets or should I seperate the exercises?
Cheers,
lloyd.
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Hi ash, i was looking at tabata intervals that you used in the offseason program posted on here and saw many different ways to perform the training, i just wondered what you do with your players to make it rugby specific? and if you could give me any ideas on ...
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I am a 19 year old going into my second season of competitive University rugby and I play hooker for my universities 1st team, i am quite short at 5 ft 9and 90 kg's. Due to my size i am reasonably quick as i used to play backrow and have ...
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Hi Ashley,
As the title suggests can you give me some examples of how to incorporate speed sessions into my training program. I want to get stronger and faster together with the CV fitness to last the whole game (openside flanker).
I devote a lot of time to my training and usually ...
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Ash,
I'm a tight forward and have really got into Olympic lifts, squat options, power work this season after reading your articles, your advice has been a great help. I've been performing 2 workouts a week during the season, a full body strength and power. The strength was Olympic, squat, lower ...
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Hey Ashley,
Really appreciate the site, it's nice to find somewhere with alot of rugby related training info. Anywho, I play rugby (back row) for my Medical School here in the U.K. and we've just moved into sevens season, training on Wednesdays and tournaments on Saturdays. I was wondering what your ...
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