READY FORTOUCHPERFORMANCE LABTHE PERFORMANCE LAB

Understand your training.

Our gym, field and mobility sessions support the physical demands of touch rugby. Skills, decision-making, team practice and recovery belong alongside that preparation.

What the research supports

Progressive resistance training, high-quality power practice, recovery between speed efforts and repeatable testing inform our approach. Each session links its purpose and prescription to relevant sources.

Why these sets, reps & rest?

Strength and power need different doses. Your programme uses these research-informed principles, then adjusts for your experience, tests, recovery and touch schedule.

The exact starting percentages (50–70%), 90-day baseline window and progression limits are conservative Ready for Touch rules. Research does not validate this app’s complete programme or guarantee an individual result.

Each session shows its touch purpose and quality target. Two comparable, complete sessions on separate days and normal recovery are needed for an earned increase; missing repetitions or skipped work cannot unlock it.

Studies of other camera apps do not validate Ready for Touch. Its video results are manual estimates of average vertical speed, not peak velocity, force or power.

Exercise library · 30 research references

Research-informed principles for adult players. Studies differ in population and setting; evidence from contact rugby or other sports is identified below. Camera estimates and this complete selection algorithm have not been clinically validated.

ACSM resistance training position stand · 2026

Healthy adults; general strength and power training. Supports progressive resistance training and goal-dependent loading. This library’s exact starting doses are coaching choices; it does not validate a complete touch programme.

Progression models in resistance training for healthy adults · 2009

Healthy adults; foundational prescription guidance. Historical guidance on strength, power and progression, read alongside the newer ACSM statement. Not a rehabilitation or youth prescription.

The Training and Development of Elite Sprint Performance · 2019

Elite sprinting; transfer to team sports requires judgement. Supports purposeful sprint practice, technical quality and adequate recovery. Exact drill sequences and distances here are coaching applications.

Acute Effects of Dynamic Stretching on Muscle Flexibility and Performance · 2018

Dynamic preparation; mixed exercise populations. Dynamic movement can prepare range and performance. It does not establish an injury-prevention effect for each warm-up drill.

Including the Nordic hamstring exercise in injury prevention programmes halves the rate of hamstring injuries · 2019

Multiple sports; programmes including Nordic hamstring exercise. Programme-level injury reduction supports considering progressive Nordic loading. It is not an individual guarantee or acute-injury treatment instruction.

The Adductor Strengthening Programme prevents groin problems among male football players · 2019

Male football players; progressive adductor programme. Supports progressive adductor strengthening in the studied programme. Touch, women and alternative doses require cautious transfer.

2019 Touch World Cup: An analysis of movement demands by half and gender · 2023

One male and one female international touch team. Informs touch conditioning context. Team-average differences do not determine an individual athlete’s exercise level, speed threshold or training load.

Effect of Different Physical Training Forms on Change of Direction Ability · 2019

Court and field sports; planned direction changes. Multiple training methods can support planned turning. Angle, entry speed and task specificity matter; planned cuts are not identical to reactive agility.

Optimizing Agility Training in Team Sport Players: The Role of Perception–Action Coupling · 2026

Mostly soccer and basketball; female samples underrepresented. Supports practising perception and action together. Evidence certainty and sport transfer limit universal dose claims.

Reactive-Agility in Touch Plays an Important Role in Elite Playing Level · 2022

Male touch players; a specified reactive-agility test. Provides touch-specific rationale for reactive demands. It does not validate this library’s games, camera timing or alternative tests.

Physical, Physiological and Perceptual Match Demands of Amateur Mixed Gender Touch Players · 2017

Amateur mixed-gender touch players. Supports an intermittent, position-aware touch context while showing limited between-position differences for many measures. Avoid rigid positional stereotypes.

High-intensity interval training, solutions to the programming puzzle: Part I · 2013

Aerobic interval programming across athletic contexts. Work duration, intensity and recovery affect the training stimulus. Example intervals are templates to individualise, not a single optimal touch prescription.

The Acute Demands of Repeated-Sprint Training in Team Sport Athletes · 2023

Team-sport repeated-sprint sessions. Repeated sprints create substantial acute fatigue. Keep conditioning goals separate from fresh maximal-speed development.

Effects of plyometric training on strength, explosive performance, and agility in female team-sport athletes · 2026

Female team-sport athletes; certainty varies by outcome. Supports including appropriate plyometric training for women. It does not establish one best contact count, drill or progression ladder.

Effect of Plyometric Training on Vertical Jump Performance in Female Athletes · 2017

Female athletes; jump outcomes. Supports potential jump improvement from plyometric programmes. Specific exercise selection and impact readiness still require coaching.

World Rugby Activate · 2026

Structured rugby-union physical preparation programmes. Useful physical-preparation reference. Individual borrowed exercise concepts do not confer the injury reductions of the full studied programme, nor establish equivalent effects in touch.

Chronic effects of stretching on range of motion with consideration of potential moderating variables · 2023

Stretching interventions and joint range. Supports range-of-motion changes with repeated stretching. Extra range is useful only where it serves the athlete’s needs and does not guarantee injury prevention.

Do We Need a Cool-Down After Exercise? · 2018

Post-exercise cool-down effects. Does not support broad claims that a cool-down prevents soreness or injuries. Use an optional brief transition for comfort and preference.

Aspetar clinical practice guideline on rehabilitation after ACL reconstruction · 2023

Post-operative ACL reconstruction; clinician-managed rehabilitation. Supports individual rehabilitation and multidimensional progression. It cannot be generalised to every knee injury or used as app-only clearance.

Ankle Stability and Movement Coordination Impairments: Lateral Ankle Ligament Sprains Revision 2021 · 2021

Acute lateral ankle sprain and chronic instability. Informs clinician-selected loading, balance and functional work after ankle sprain. Severity and restrictions determine the entry point.

FIT youth development leaders discuss 5th-edition rule changes · 2021

Touch playing-rule discussion. Context for seven-metre defensive movement. This is not a current competition rulebook: verify local rules before using drill distances or interchange conventions.

Achilles Pain, Stiffness, and Muscle Power Deficits: Midportion Achilles Tendinopathy Revision 2024 · 2024

Midportion Achilles tendinopathy. Supports condition-specific management and loading. Do not apply midportion guidance unchanged to insertional pain, rupture or surgery.

Hamstring Strain Injury in Athletes · 2022

Athletes with hamstring strain. Informs injury assessment and rehabilitation. Exercise choice, lengthening demand and running exposure require an individual plan.

Effectiveness of progressive tendon-loading exercise therapy in patients with patellar tendinopathy · 2021

Patients with diagnosed patellar tendinopathy. Supports a progressive loading approach in the studied condition. Do not copy it as a universal knee-pain or post-operative pathway.

Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy Diagnosis, Nonsurgical Medical Care, and Rehabilitation · 2025

Adults with suspected or diagnosed rotator-cuff tendinopathy. Supports assessment-led nonsurgical care and rehabilitation. It does not cover every shoulder injury, instability episode or surgical restriction.

The Effects of Menstrual Cycle Phase on Exercise Performance in Eumenorrheic Women · 2020

Eumenorrheic women; heterogeneous evidence. Does not justify a universal phase-based performance schedule. Use the athlete’s symptoms, preferences and observed response; avoid assumptions based on gender alone.

Position statement on youth resistance training: the 2014 International Consensus · 2014

Children and adolescents under appropriate instruction. Youth need supervision and development-appropriate programming. Adult doses in this catalogue must not be automatically copied to under-18 athletes.

Return to sport decisions after an acute lateral ankle sprain injury: PAASS framework · 2021

Return to sport after lateral ankle sprain. Readiness includes pain, ankle impairments, perception, sensorimotor control and sport function. A single hop score or elapsed time cannot replace review.

Effectiveness of isometric exercise in the management of tendinopathy · 2020

Tendinopathy trials. Isometrics are one loading option, not a guaranteed analgesic or universally superior exercise. Clinicians select angle, load and dose.

Resistance Training Induces Improvements in Range of Motion · 2023

Healthy participants undertaking resistance training. Strength work can also support range. A separate mobility drill is not always necessary if the required range is already trained comfortably.

What is a product rule

Our exact starting doses, progression gates and profile adjustments are conservative programming choices. Research on training principles does not validate this app’s complete algorithm. Two comparable, controlled sessions and normal recovery are required before an earned increase; incomplete work does not unlock progression.

How reliable are my results?

Use your own repeatable measurements to guide training. A small change can come from filming or timing differences.

  1. Repeat the same test, side, surface, footwear and warm-up.
  2. For video, keep the camera position, frame rate and slow-motion settings consistent. Review the marked frames.
  3. Retest when fresh. Look for a repeatable change alongside completed sessions and recovery.

Video estimate: calculated from markers you review. This is not automatic technique assessment.

Hand-timed result: includes the timer’s reaction time. Compare like-for-like.

Self-reviewed movement: your assessment of control; it is not a diagnosis or clearance for sport.

Ready for Touch camera tests have not yet been independently validated against timing gates, a jump measurement system or a bar-speed sensor. We do not claim an accuracy percentage or label small changes as certain improvement.

Read our training principles & research

Personalisation without stereotypes

Your recent training, results, goals, equipment, restrictions and recovery shape your programme. Optional cycle check-ins use symptoms and your training preference. Gender or a predicted cycle phase does not impose an automatic strength ceiling.

Validation status

Independent device-comparison testing and practitioner sign-off of the complete programme engine are pending. We will publish methods and findings when those reviews have actually been completed.

Principles and implementation reviewed for this release: 29 September 2026. This date records our product review, not independent scientific approval.

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