DS Performance Strength & Conditioning Training Programmes
Sport: Rugby
Variable: Strength
Level: Intermediate
Duration: 12 weeks
Do you know how to improve your athletic performance for Rugby, whilst reducing the risk of injury? If not, then DS Performance training programs are for you.

DS Performance have created an exclusive series of sport specific, strength & conditioning training programmes that have underpinning, evidence-based training methods, which have been put in place to improve your performance for all ages and abilities. All programmes have been designed to develop each specific performance variable through the progression of intensity and volume.

• DS Performance training programmes are designed to run alongside a skill/sport specific based training plan. Our programmes provide sessions for 3 days of training a week, to alternate between your skill/sport specific training sessions. We have selected five of the most important physical performance variables/attributes for each of the sports that are essential in developing your performance.


• Our 12-week strength and conditioning training program is broken down into 2 x 6-week cycles, with a de-loading between the two training blocks. This will allow the body to recover, prepare you for the second training phase and reduce any risk of injury.


• Along with your training program this book contains a supporting guide to mobility training. This guide uses myofascial release, static stretching and activation work to mobilise the major body parts used in training.


• Designed to reduce the risk of injury and avoid bad training habits through our sport specific training programs. We are providing you with training programmes designed by ex-Team GB athletes and coaching staff that have the practical and applied experience through a wide range of individual and team-based sports.


• Our program has been developed to bring elite training methods to everyone, from all levels of sporting ability. Our mission is to make training programmes utilised by professional athletes available to all sporting enthusiasts and performers.

Strength training is essential to all sports. It is well known that, increases in strength lead to greater force production and efficiency in performance. This is why we have identified it as one of the key physical attributes for Rugby and a player’s long term physical development.

The strength programs have been designed not to just build your maximum strength, but your strength endurance as well. This will reduce the risk of injury and eradicate any muscular imbalances that have resulted from previous injury or poor training practices in the past.

Our strength programs prepare you for the next training level physically, so you can handle greater loads and move larger amounts of mass. Strength comes in many forms and in Rugby you are required to be strong through all planes of movement. Our programs accomplish this.