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Good accelerating in settling the keeping the shape good. Okay, pull down pull down white ball play. Push-up pushing out reds the shutting this place down. Good Kevin. I bow down put on your knees Reds. It's a break down on your knees Matt. Okay?
Keeping fitness & conditioning exercises fun and fresh is very challenging as coaches want to ensure these drills are tough and get the players fit. This clip highlights when fitness work should be done and shows some weird and wonderful examples to improve fitness & strength at the breakdown
Love them or hate them, burpees are a great tool for fitness.
Whether incorporated into a game of touch or your own fitness circuits, the whole-body exercise is extremely game related and requires technique under fatigue.
When you have got the technique nailed, see how many GOOD burpees you can complete in a minute. Look to constantly improve on this number.
Owen Nicholls, the strength and conditioning coach from London Scottish explains why they use the Broncos fitness test to asses base fitness levels, and why they don't use the bleep test.