Fitness & Weight Training Exercises : Weight Training for Rugby

Rugby is an anaerobic activity in which a person has to be very physically fit with explosive power and a lot of endurance. Put together a great weight-training workout to prepare the body for the game of rugby with tips from an experienced personal trainer in this free video on fitness and exercises.

Expert: Aaron Hill
Bio: Aaron Hill is a professional fitness and health instructor at Fitness for Life in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Filmmaker: Reel Media LLC

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• weight training
• health
• fitness
• weightlifting
• exercises
• lower body exercises
• stretching exercises
• joint exercises
• abdominal exercises

[gazza351]

Don't have to be as agile as other sports???

The more agile the better!

E.g. Jason Robinson, Shane Williams, Christian Cullen... Just to name a few...

[aztekwarrior23]

this guy is confusing fast and slow twitch muscle fibers! LOL

[vanillaEnipples]

this guy doesnt know what he is talking about lol

[MadboyIHD]

@gazza351 I'm pretty sure, all rugby players are highly agile, including the props :P

[hayeder]

Fiber*

[hayeder]

Haha some poor fellow has his fibre types mixed up I see..

[egeseatr35]

@Samax13 Obviously we don't :)

[Samax13]

listen to me. i am an american. this guy is an idiot. dont trust us to teach you about rugby.

[mcspolif]

slow twitch fibres for high intensity fast power. bollocks. hit the books again you idiot

[rugbymccaw7]

Yeah he got those fast twitch and slow twitch around the wrong way. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt, just hope that next time he reviews the video before he puts it on Youtube.