Bernard Jackman
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3,385 appearances
14 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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Absolutely, yeah.
I'd say going back to my time in school, the difference now is, I think we always did a lot of pitch sessions, but it's the gym before school or during lunchtime.
It's the ability to have an app on your phone where you can watch your clips, have feedback, give feedback back to coaches, them to give feedback to you.
The detail around nutrition and getting the right amount of calories in and the right mix of protein, carbs and fats.
the access to maybe to a sports psychologist they're the add-ons that I think weren't there in the past
Well, I know some schools who have bought the X. So there's obviously a new model, new technology coming on.
So it's like buying a second hand car.
I know schools who have X pro teams GPS.
And what does the GPS tell you?
It just measures overall load.
So how hard a training session was.
how many meters around, the speed of meters, the accelerations, decelerations.
So to try and get a perfect physical stimulus to obviously improve and stretch yourself, but also not to risk injury and to try and get consistency of training as well and understanding what a Tuesday should look like, what a Thursday should look like.
I suppose it just brings science to the old fashioned eye.
In the old days, a good coach would know what type of session looked like in terms of physical demand.
The eye is still important, but obviously if you can back it up with some data, I think that's important.
just learning how to move your body and like I say spatial awareness all those things and it also teaches you what you like yeah and I think it's choice and I hate hearing coaches in rugby schools or GA or soccer who try and stop athletes playing other sports I think the longer they can play multiple sports the better and let them choose themselves
I think it has a status symbol.
There's a status to it if you're a good rugby school, if you're producing teams that can win schools' cups, if you're producing players who go into the pathway, the Leinster Academy or the Munster Academy, etc.
I think there's an element to that.
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