Follow these to smash your off-season

An overview of the 3 main rules to follow for your rugby off-season, setting you up for a massive next season. Get in touch on IG @maxroger7 to find out more and see how you can train in your off-season.

3 rugby off-season rules

Why it's essential

An overview of nasal breathing, and why it's essential for you with your run training. The focus here is on keeping you in the right training zone so that you can get the most out of your training. Message me on Instagram @maxroger7 or email max@max-performance.co.uk if you want to get into this topic in more detail.

Nasal breathing for running

How you should structure a gym programme

A look at a couple of reasons why bodybuilding and bro splits are not suitable for training kids in the gym, and why full-body training, 3 days a week, is more beneficial. Message me on Instagram @maxroger7 or email max@max-performance.co.uk if you want to get into this topic in more detail.

No bro splits

Maximise your warm-up

A look at warm-ups: why they are so important, and how to maximise them for different benefits - whether it's a gym session, a PE lesson, or gameday. For more info. DM me on Insta @maxroger7, or email me at max@max-performance.co.uk

Warm-ups: Get your chilli hot

Basic movements to teach and learn

A look at what the Primal Movements are (phrase from Power Athlete), why they are important, and how to get them into the training week of the children that you teach/coach, and your own training week. DM me on Insta @maxroger7 if you want more details on how you can do this.

Primal Movements

What's important now it's Winter?

A quick look at what the number one healthy habit is and why this is important now that the days are getting colder and darker. Let me know what you think, and if you have any questions about instilling habits on Insta @maxroger7

The number 1 healthy habit

And looking at school runs

A quick look at ideas to make sure more pupils are appropriately challenged in lessons, and a more specific look at this with the traditional 'school run'. Any ideas yourself? Message me on Insta @maxroger7

Appropriate challenge

How to improve it

A look at the importance of the environment around PE lessons, including the changing room - as it's the first and last thing that pupils will experience in their lesson. If you have any ideas for this then message me on Insta @maxroger7

The PE environment

Why it shouldn't be

This episode looks at why using exercise as a punishment is so bad. I then suggest some different things that you can do instead of sending kids on a lap, or forcing them to do pushups. If you want to join the conversation then message me on Instagram @maxroger7

Exercise as a punishment

Athletic development topics, focusing on practical takeaways rather than digging deep into the science behind it.

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