Explosive Power
"The benefits of explosive strength training for rugby football"
Bruce Ross
"Rugby football involves prolonged physical engagements between players where they are subjected to loading substantially greater than their own body
weight. An ability to very rapidly generate force is advantageous in these areas of physical engagement. In addition to basic strength training, players need
to undertake activity-specific training for explosive strength."
MyoQuip Blog
"The effects of a 6-week plyometric training program on agility" Michael G Miller, Jeremy J Herniman, Mark D Rickard, Christopher C Cheatham and Timothy J Michael
"Not only can athletes use plyometrics to break the monotony of training, but they can also improve their strength and explosiveness while working to become more agile."
Journal of Sports Science and Medicine 5:3
"Explosive exercise" Meg Stone, Mike Stone and Hugh Lamont
"in order to elicit maximum responses all strength training should incorporate maximum efforts regardless of the weight used ... training for maximum explosiveness requires emphases on both maximum strength and explosive training"
Coaches' Infoservice
"Plyometric bench press training for more strength and power" Kenny Croxdale
"during 1-RM bench presses, the bar decelerates for the final 24% of the range of motion. At 81% of 1-RM, the bar deceleration occurs during the
final 52% of the range of motion. The accompanying deceleration phases result in significantly decreased motor unit recruitment, velocity of movement, power
production and compromises the effectiveness of the exercise."
Strengthcats
"Nick Tatalias on explosive strength training for rugby" Bruce Ross
"Nick Tatalias suggests that forwards who are exhausted after scrums and mauls may need greater strength and better anaerobic rather than aerobic conditioning. He argues that changes to the Laws of Rugby have increased the proportion of explosive actions in a game and consequently the need for explosive strength training"
MyoQuip Blog
"Rugby union: explosive power: which forms of training are best for increasing short-term energy supplies and explosive power?" Alun Williams
"probably the most important aspect of strength training for explosive power is that the athlete consciously and maximally attempts to move the load as fast as possible during the concentric phase of weight training, independent of the apparent speed of the motion then produced."
Peak Performance
"Stage 1: introductory concepts for explosive power training" Tony Bauer and Dwayne Fuchs
"Explosive exercises increase the recruitment of motor units and muscle fibers as well as increase the firing rate of the motor neuron."
Coaches' Infoservice
"Training principles for jumpers: implications for special strength development" Nelio Moura and Tania Fernandes de Paula Moura
"Special strength training being done throughout the season, because training effects are absolutely specific;
"Quality of training (technique and power produced in each repetition) is far more important than quantity (tons lifted, or number of jumps performed)."
coachr.org
"Weight lifting for sports specific benefits" Clive Brewer, Mike Favre and Linda Low
"Training to improve sports performance should encourage the incorporation of rapid stretch-shortening cycles into training movements to enable the athlete to produce maximal forces. This occurs in plyometric actions, where the amortisation phase needs to be as rapid as possible."
Coaches' Infoservice
"Weightlifting: the relevance to other sports training" Loren
Z F Chiu and Brian K Schilling
"The concert of physiological, neurological, and mechanical adaptations suggests that weightlifting exercises and methods may be the single most effective
type of training for athletic performance."
Rugbystrength.com
"What is the most direct means to achieve strength gains specific to the demands of jumping events?" David Kerin
"I have come across some very interesting articles that represent a fresh look at jumps-specific strength training. Independently, the articles suggest that the eccentric contraction that occurs at the plant, and strength training designed to improve this phase of a jumping action, might deserve greater consideration in the search for improvements in event performance."
gillathletics.com
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