Harry Wright | Rugby Union & League S&C Performance coach on Instagram: "Simple effective upper body prep for contact! This is a really quite simple 3 exercises 5 Reps for each 2 rounds and your uppers is good to go for some contact reps. You don’t need to go and do your banded rotations get on the ground. Get the muscles co contracting well and you are set. Shoulders elbows wrists are ready! Big up @ardiesavea for this one! Thanks for the footage @allblacks_superfan"

Build Rugby Strength & Power (IN SEASON) Off season, you can up the volume with your lifting potentially ⬆️ Some basic guidelines around what you need to include into your week The 1-2x sprint sessions I’ll tend to add in an extras before rugby training The jump work tends to be placed in prior to my main lower body compound or as a superset The rugby tip is quite simple, there’s nuance and skills that you can’t learn in the gym with contact work Some people have flattened me that I was 100% str