Most of the great strength exercises have several things in common. They allow you to lift a lot of weight relatively safely, they train movements and not individual muscles, and they are bilateral, meaning they involve two limbs at a time. Squats, bench presses, deadlifts, and overhead presses are good examples. While all of these...Read More

Preparing for rugby games should be pretty simple, right? Get to the pitch ten minutes before kickoff, whack your boots on, tuck your mouthguard in your sock and get on out there! We’ve all done this. But it’s not exactly ideal preparation for playing top or even mid-level rugby. Thanks to the overwhelming requests from...Read More

Still not sure if rugby is the right sport for you? Think girls can’t play rugby? Wrong! Here is a great video by the Harvard Women’s Rugby Club that shows you exactly why you SHOULD start playing rugby today. After you watch it, then check out Liberty Rugby Club… we want you on our team!...Read More

15 Reasons Why Your Little Angels Should be Playing the Great Game ‘Borrowed with Pride’ from Ruck.co.uk (full link at bottom of this article). Its been tweaked slightly to fit our club but still a great list of reasons why what we do is very much worth it: Getting kids off the sofa and onto...Read More

Teenagers are notoriously difficult–moody, private, and often sulky.  Even the children with the sunniest dispositions can somehow transform into temperamental, irritable adolescents suffering from stress and anxiety. With raging hormones and the stress they deal with in middle school and high school, all of this is considered normal behavior for teens that parents just have to...Read More

Well, sort of.  Did you know that you can help support Liberty Rugby Club through an Employer Volunteer Grant Program?  For every hour of time you volunteer to the club, i.e. helping serve the post game feeds, committee planning, field setup and takedown, etc., your employer may match your service with an hourly wage amount...Read More

Countless benefits of playing multiple sports are being forgotten in the midst of the specialization craze. In this day and age when trophies and scholarships dominate youth athletics, kids are being pushed to specialize in a single sport as early as their pre-teen years. Driven by the professionalization of youth sports, coaches and parents alike have...Read More