Book Description
Building on the success of their general sports manual Smart Training and the mental skills for rugby book Thinking Rugby, Ken Hodge, Alex McKenzie and Gordon Sleivert here collect writing by the best sports scientists in the field into a focused new volume. Smart Training for Rugby covers all the bases for effective rugby training, with chapters on peak performance profiling, goal setting, fitness profiling, improving fitness, mental toughness training, evaluating and improving skills, the ‘physics’ of rugby playing, good nutrition, preventing and managing injuries, planning total training programmes, and using training worksheets. Illustrated with plentiful photos, graphs and tables, and making use of numerous case studies, Smart Training for Rugby is a definitive guide to all-round training for New Zealand’s great game.