Louis Dallimore ·Strength & Conditioning
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Modelling Accumulated Load, Lag, and Soft-Tissue Injury Risk
Twelve of seventeen hamstring injuries across two seasons were flagged inside the prior fortnight by counting six simple training markers. The model, the checks that broke earlier versions of it, and the dashboard and planner that came out the other side.
Analytics·2026·12 min
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How We Trained: A Year of Periodisation in Pro Rugby
The training program behind the closing-twenty number. Annual periodisation, weekly volumes, position-group splits, and the match-pace tagging that benchmarked every full-squad session against game intensity.
Programming·2026·10 min
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The Closing Twenty
Across 56 Division 2 matches in 2025, five of eight clubs lost the closing twenty minutes on points. Kintetsu's net was +8.1 points per match, the largest in the league. A descriptive look at the pattern, points only.
Analytics·2026·5 min
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The Height Advantage
Sixty years of research on rugby player anthropometry, one season of Japan League One data, and the question of whether height still matters at the elite level once everyone is big enough.
Analytics·2025·12 min
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Using a Daily Maximum for Autoregulation
Velocity-based training, daily maximums, and a way to manage week-to-week loading without testing 1RMs that wreck your athletes.
Programming·2021·7 min
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Improving Your Work Capacity
Why progressive overload through volume, not intensity, is the under-rated lever for hypertrophy and durability.
Programming·2021·5 min
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Using GPS in Professional Rugby
How the Kintetsu Liners use GPS technology for daily, weekly, monthly and yearly load monitoring and performance tracking.
Analytics·2020·9 min
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Building Size and Strength in Rugby Union Athletes
A modified APRE block design that has produced 7 to 11 kg gains in first and second year players over nine months.
Programming·2018·4 min
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Lower Body Profiling
Why "fill in the gaps" individualised programming beat one-size-fits-all in our preseason. 49 of 50 players ran faster.
Methods·2018·4 min
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How Well Does Feel Predict Fatigue?
A season of weekly drop-jump testing against subjective wellness scores across 50 athletes, set against the published athlete-monitoring literature. The finding I expected and the one I got were not the same.
Field Notes·2017·13 min