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Course Work- Joel Walkaden Analysis Section, Fitness Component The sport of my choice for this course work is rugby. I believe in rugby my greatest fitness asset is cardiovascular endurance. Cardiovascular Endurance is the endurance of my heart rate during a match (in my example a match of rugby) without running out of breath or getting an injury. I can work on my cardiovascular endurance by going for jogs at long distances. Cardiovascular Endurance is usually calculated by performers doing The Multi-Staged Fitness Test. My main position in rugby is a flanker, as a flanker my main objectives rely in the rucks and on the ball. When my team mates have the ball I must use my cardiovascular endurance to get to the ruck when my team mate is eventually …show more content…

Cardiovascular Endurance is also an asset to rugby as when my team are in possession of the ball I must make myself as an option for a pass. In my team there are very quick players therefore meaning to make myself an option I must use my endurance to reach the man with the ball making myself available. This would benefit my team’s performance as it gives the opposition two choices to make, whether or not to risk tackling the man with the ball or anticipating the pass to me making the tackle attempt weaker and allowing space out wide for the ball carrier to run into. A usual use for cardiovascular performance is in rugby seven’s. In rugby seven’s there is a lot of space in the width of the pitches. An example of my cardiovascular endurance came playing in a sevens tournament with school. As there is various space in rugby sevens I must not only use my cardiovascular endurance in attack however in defence also .The opposition we were playing against had a notably quick player on the wing. When he broke in the final minutes (considering I had played in previous games not long after) I used my cardiovascular endurance to run across the pitch to make the tackle. Getting in a low body position for

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