Check out this post from @AthletesAuth 👆🏼 we believe that sleep is our greatest superpower as a human 🦸♂️ Try out this bedtime routine and dominate in your sport and high performance life 🏆
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Strong Saturday 🏋🏻♂️
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Here’s how to test how strong your hamstring actually are! This is the single leg hip bridge exercise which we use to test our hamstring strength capacity in order… instagram.com/p/CD6HW_nFtFY/…
Fast Friday ⚡️
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Here’s some of our athletes working through running drills this week 🏃♀️ Often running drills can be neglected by coaches and the athlete just performs the exercise… instagram.com/p/CD3UVo4MpHt/…
There is still time to sign up for the @yondasports Challenge!
Take on our 3 week challenge with the culmination of a final week Duathlon! Don't forget to show us your progress by tagging us in the pictures.
Sign up: bit.ly/rbr-challenge@sportscotland@AthletePerfHub
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Strong Saturday 💪🏼
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We’ve started to move our sessions outside instead of being stuck in the house on Zoom 🙌🏼 Here’s one of our sessions last week with… instagram.com/p/CCN2Oy_MA8H/…
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Recovery Step 1 - Refuel ⛽️
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We think that chocolate milk is the ultimate recovery drink in order to refuel our bodies with carbohydrates, protein and… instagram.com/p/B_u2T_CDTkt/…
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Soft Tissue Therapy 🦵🏼
Soft tissue therapy is usually the first part of warming up 1️⃣ we use foam rolling and trigger point therapy with a ball in order… instagram.com/p/B_msWVIjfaE/…
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Why strength & conditioning? 🤷🏻♂️
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Many coaches and some athletes don’t fully buy into strength & conditioning for their sport! 🤷🏻♂️ so we believe it’s so… instagram.com/p/B_Ue0ksHRMy/…
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Mobility Monday!
Give this hurdle mobility session a shot for Mobility Monday!
Hip mobility is a critical aspect of speed and power -… instagram.com/p/B9zVjCGn0b0/…
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This programme is currently being run at the @univofstandrews for local athletes in the community supporting them through… instagram.com/p/B9kWiLkngZI/…
ONLINE PROGRAMMES COMING SOON!
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We have some exciting news that we will be offering online strength and conditioning programmes through our new Athlete Performance Hub App! 🏆
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We’ll… instagram.com/p/B9chESoH_Lb/…
We have to get the young @GlosRugby_Acad players to ustand bracing, catching, carrying, holding external loads in different shapes.
This takes time, and repetition, to grow efficiency and confidence in the movements.
Spend time getting this part right.
In recent weeks we have asked the young lads in the @GlosRugby_Acad to try Koala Carries and 'loaded' Bear Crawl positions.
All lads progress at different rates, and are better at certain movements.
2 lads managed this tonight, great piece of work from both of them.
Let’s Play! 🤸🏻♂️
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Calisthenics plays a frequent part in our athlete development programmes which we include as part of our warm up, in the athletes main session or as some play time towards the end! Here are some… instagram.com/p/B8WxQF_nrFv/…
Speed Development is a critical piece of the #LTAD puzzle. Here are a few ways from @MikeYoung to drive intent in your speed sessions
✅Racing
✅Chasing
✅Relays
✅Games
✅Timing
#ChildToChampion
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University of St. Andrews Men’s Rugby Training Camp 🏴
We’re halfway through our midterm training camp with @ustarugby So far we’ve ran sessions in the gym and on… instagram.com/p/B7o0ZkIHk_v/…