Presentation description
Dan Tobin breaks down how he holds his S&C programme accountable across two domains: content and coaching. Using plyometric training data from professional rugby, he shows how safe-to-fail experiments and practice-based evidence replaced common practice with methods that actually worked for his players. He then turns to coaching quality, explaining why biomechanics programmes fail and how his department built a simplified technical model, coaching checklist, and micro-dosing structure that drove measurable improvements in sprint mechanics and soft tissue injury rates. This is a practical framework for proving your programme works, not just hoping it does.
Learning objectives
- Critically analyse how practice-based evidence can challenge established research-driven programming decisions.
- Evaluate the interaction between technical models, coaching delivery, and biomechanical intervention within injury-risk management.
- Design monitoring frameworks that objectively determine whether coaching interventions produce measurable performance or technical change.
About the presenter
Dan Tobin is a Strength and Conditioning Coach with nearly 20 years of experience in professional rugby, having worked with Leinster Rugby, Gloucester Rugby and now England Men’s Rugby. He spent a decade at Leinster before serving eight years as Head of Performance at Gloucester, and also worked with the Dublin GAA Senior Football Team. A former Irish international sprinter, Tobin has a passion for speed, power and plyometrics and how to use these methods to specifically prepare team sport players for the demands of competition.
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Contact hours
- Reading time = 10 minutes
- Video length = 27 minutes
- Quiz = 10 minutes
- Total contact hours (rounded down to nearest 0.25 hr) = 0.75
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