Rugby: Warm up - Slaps and Taps

As the start of the season nears, continue to build your players resilience to contact and ensure they?re up to speed with their physical conditioning with this demanding session.

Develop the aggressive Blitz defending style in you game and don’t let the opposition get comfortable on the ball with this session.

• players start ontop of eachother.
• the guy ontop is trying to stop the boy on the bottom gettign up 
• wrestle and by no means let the player on the floor up.

1. Seated on floor, feet touching, knees bent, join hands and pull one another forwards and backwards to loosen up lower back.
2. Same position hands joined, rotate upper body from left to right in an upright seated position to stretch lower back and warm up obliques.
3. Standing, facing one another each both players place 1 hand on the other players' shoulder, swinging legs in a pendulum motion to stretch the hamstrings (see video below).
4. Same position but now swing leg diagonally across to stretch groin and glutes (see video below).
5. Both players do 10 push ups taking at least 5 seconds to complete 1 push up, to warm up and stretch chest and back.
6. Swing the arms in a circular motion to loosen up shoulders and warm up the arms.
7. Pick up one another in a tackling technique and take 2 steps with player on your shoulder, then put down softly and slowly. Make sure to pick up with both legs and shoulders (same leg same shoulder)
8. One player leans forward, the other places his hand on his shoulders, and resists while the player leaning works his way forward using leg power.
9. Back to back, one player resists with the legs and the other pushes, resist 60% so that the player can keep moving forward.
10. 1 vs 1 scrummaging with a max effort of about 50%

• 2 Teams.
• Half Pitch.

Touch Game with conditions; 

Attacker once touched must go down, bounce back up and drive into defender, then perform a long place. 

While all defenders retreat 3m and hit the floor and bounce back up again before continuing play. 

2 players pair up, site back to back and lock arms together. 

The coach tells each player to lean a side. 

when the coach blows hs whistle they players wrestle to get there shoulder to the gorund the coach said. 

Once one player has won, you must reset and start again.