Aberdeen Sports Village Overview

Aberdeen Sports Village is Scotland’s premier sports, fitness and lifestyle venue. From hosting international sports events, and offering multiple sports facilities, including an IAAF accredited 400m athletics track, UKA accredited indoor athletics facility, a full-sized indoor 3g artificial football pitch and an Olympic standard Aquatics Centre.

​To complement the existing Sport Scotland Institute of Sport Strength and Conditioning facility it was decided to convert an existing aerobics studio into a Rugby specific Strength and conditioning facility to house the SRU Caledonia Academy. Scottish Rugby Union operates four FOSROC Scottish Rugby Academies containing the nation’s most promising male rugby players, with centres in Aberdeen, Cumbernauld, Edinburgh and Galashiels. The academy in Caledonia was the first of the four Scottish Rugby Academies to be launched in October 2014.

Week in, week out the FOSROC Academies focus on three pillars of player development: high-performance behaviours, rugby skills and athletic capacity. Training is combined with opportunities to compete and hone match skills in a competitive environment.

Solution

Perform Better were selected to design the facility in conjunction with the SRU Performance team and ASV Management team. The project was delayed by 12 months due to lockdown but in October 2021 the flooring and equipment were installed. The 13m x 13m space had 32mm Duratrain Performance flooring laid throughout- a specially designed Infinity Rig with 6 lifting stations, monkey bars, disc storage and dipping stations was installed into one half of the room along with PB Olympic discs and bars, benches, PB dumbbell, slam and wall balls and a Ski Erg.

All the stakeholders are hopeful that the new facility will be key in developing young Rugby players and other young sportspeople in the Caledonia region.

Equipment

• Bespoke Infinity Rig
• Adjustable Benches
• Olympic Discs and Bars
• Dumbbell Set
• Wall and Slam Balls
• SkiErg