Ashley Jones Strength Conditioning Coach Crusaders – Super 14 The Turkish Get Up Lie on the floor, in a supine position (i.e. face up), next to an appropriate size kettlebell/dumbbell. Press the kettlebell/dumbbell vertically- directly above your shoulder. Once in position, keep your elbow locked, wrist straight, and your eyes on the implement. Sit up…
Author: Ashley Jones
Ashley Jones specialist in the physical preparation of rugby athletes. He has worked with professional sports teams that include Sydney Kings, Newcastle Knights, Parramatta Eels, Northern Eagles, Crusaders, New Zealand All Blacks, and Australian Wallabies.
Irish by Ancestry, Australian by Birth, Japanese by Accident and a Kiwi by Choice.
Ideas for Off Season Training – Ashley Jones
Author Ashley Jones After 15 off seasons in preparing players for the rigours of professional team sports competition, I would like to suggest a few ideas that may spark ideas for you to optimize the quality and quantity of your program for you and the players entrusted to you. I think that you need to…
It is all in the numbers – Ashley Jones
Author Ashley Jones Hey there guys would love your thoughts and ideas on the following, cheers, ash Being a former mathematics teacher, numbers have been a part of my life for a number of years. I do love playing with number patterns, sets and reps, loading, calculations of intensities and volumes have been a constant…
2012 Program Based on 4 workouts per week – Ashley Jones
Here you go guys a complete program working around 2, 3 or 4 days a week for you to try and Steve for readers to experiment with, I designed it with my own schedule in mind not knowing from week to week whether I was going to be able to train for a complete week…
Wave Goodbye to Strength Plateaus By Ashley Jones
Firstly let me start this article with a statement of philosophy, I believe we try and include way too many exercises in our training programs, I have been as guilty as the next trainer in doing this and believe we need to pull back but also increase the stimulus by increasing the overall number of…
Off Season Strength Training for Club Rugby
Ashley Jones Strength Conditioning Coach Forget the complicated spilt training programs, forget the long workouts, you need a program that will get you stronger and will probably get you faster as a by product and you are not a professional so you only want to train 2 or 3 times a week. You can even do…
The day in a life of a strength conditioning coach
A Day in the Life of a Strength & Conditioning Coach – Off Season Ashley Jones For those of you that are contemplating a career in this line of work I though it may be an opportune time to outline a typical day so you can see what goes on. This will vary from week…
The Pencil Files Complete (final)
Well I have had quite a few evenings with nothing but Japanese TV for company so I have dug through some archives, re-read Leo Costs`s Big Beyond Belief book of the early 90`s which used the Bulgaian weightlifting training model applied to hypertrophy and strength training well worth a read, also looked at Charles Poliquin`s…
Off Season Training Plans
Off Season Training Plans – As another ITM Cup closes with a wonderful record-setting Off Season Training Plans Ashley Jones As another ITM Cup closes with a wonderful record-setting 5th title in a row to the Canterbury team, players, trainers and coaches minds will start turning to prepare for next season. Personally, I believe that…