01 / EDUCATE
Know the game
Common rugby injuries, how they happen, what increases risk and how preparation can help.
Youth rugby robustness
PREPARE TODAY.
PREPARE TODAY.
PLAY TOMORROW.
A clear, practical framework to help young rugby players build the physical qualities they need to prepare for training, tolerate the demands of the game and stay available to perform.
What is Rugby Robust?
Not just injury prevention. Preparation for the demands of rugby.
Rugby Robust combines our understanding of youth rugby injuries, neuromuscular training principles and the demands of the sport into one practical system players can understand and use.
Who leads it? Delivered by George Gauntlett Physio, with 8 years in senior and academy men’s rugby.
Know the game
Understand the physical demands, common injury patterns and why preparation matters.
Build better preparation habits
Learn a repeatable movement-prep structure that can sit around rugby training and matches.
Develop robustness
Target control, strength, balance, capacity and reactive qualities at the shoulder, knee and ankle.
Rugby Robust Workshop
Educate. Test. Prep. Perform.
A practical, player-friendly workshop for young rugby players and their parents, bringing together education, movement preparation, robustness training and simple testing in one session.
02 / TEST
Simple screening
Useful mobility, balance and capacity measures to help players understand where they are now.
03 / PREP
Movement preparation
A clear warm-up framework informed by neuromuscular training and the principles used in rugby preparation.
04 / PERFORM
Robustness circuit
Partner-based shoulder, knee and ankle work using move, control, build and react progressions.
The practical framework
Move. Control. Build. React.
Each area is progressed from movement options, into control and physical capacity, then into more reactive rugby-relevant challenges.
MOVE
Develop the mobility and movement options needed to access useful rugby positions before adding more control, load or speed.
CONTROL
Position, balance, coordination and neuromuscular control before adding more load or speed.
BUILD
Develop strength and capacity so key tissues and movement patterns can tolerate repeated rugby demands.
REACT
Add decision-making, perturbation, partner interaction and speed to bridge preparation towards the game.
Beyond the workshop
Choose the next step that fits the player.
Rugby Robust is designed as an entry point, not a one-size-fits-all programme. Players can continue with group sessions or individual testing and bespoke programming depending on their needs.
Rugby Robust
Build better preparation for the game.
Enquire about upcoming Rugby Robust workshops, group sessions or 1:1 robustness testing for young players, schools or rugby programmes.
George Gauntlett Physio · Wiltshire