Individual Home Skills & Conditioning Programme – Week 3

The Munster Rugby Development Department have designed a weekly individual training programme aimed at players U13 and up (including adults) during the current Level 5 restrictions.

A weekly plan will be shared over the coming weeks to help support players and assist in keeping them active. This plan is most suitable for those involved in the 15-a-side game.

Click here for content to keep the Minis and Primary School aged children active during the current lockdown.

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The below plan is the Week 3 edition of the Home Skills and Conditioning Programme. For Week 1, please click here. For Week 2, please click here.

Individual Home Skills & Conditioning Programme – Week 3

Click here for the PDF version of this week’s Individual Home Skills & Conditioning Programme

”Please ensure you take all precautions and put your safety first if carrying out any of these exercises at home. Please notify a parent or guardian if completing these physical contact exercises at home”

Session 1: Skills & Conditioning

Skills: Poach Skills

1. Power Burpee – 6 Reps
2. Grip & Rip – 6 Reps
3. Alternating Stance – 2 mins alternating

Conditioning (15 min)

Speed & Agility Work (See bottom of the page)

Plus…

1. Push-Ups – (x10)
2. Squats (Single-Leg) – (x10)
3. Hamstring Bridge – (x10)
4. Bear Crawl

Session 2 & 4: Conditioning

Conditioning (20-25 min) – Do this twice a week

Fartlek 

• Warm up with light jog and dynamic exercises; squat, lunge, hamstring bridge etc
• Jog at 70% for 3 minutes
• 50m stride through at 85%
• Jog at 70% for 2 minutes
• 100m sprint at 95-100%
• Repeat 4 times

Session 3: Skills & Conditioning

Skills: Poach Skills

1. Pop Up & Poach (6 Reps)
2. Run, Press-Up, Poach (6 Reps)
3. Alternating Stance – 2 mins

Conditioning (15 min)

Speed & Agility Work (see bottom of page)

Plus…

• Push-ups – (x10)
• Goblet Squat – (x10)
• Hamstring Bridge – (x10)
• Bear Crawl

The Turtle Neck Technique

Session Primer – Body Positioning

Setup in scrum position with hands on the ground (spine in line – bent knees – eyes over sunglasses).

1. Move forwards – backwards – sideways balancing an object on your back (1 rep)
2. Sibling/Parent (if available) applies pressure all over body (maintain chest over ball/cone) (10 sec)
3. Crawl & balance object (10 sec)

Change stance from scrum position. 

1. Commando Crawl (10 secs)
2. Squat rocking gripping the ball (forward-back-side-to-side) (45 secs)

Speed & Agility Work