John Pryor Travels to Japan for the Japan Rugby Football Union

The director of JointAction and the strength and conditioning coordinator for the Japan Rugby Football Union, John Pryor has devoted the entirety of his professional career to generating a broader understanding of health and wellness principles in the minds of an incredibly wide range of individuals, whether that is elite athletes, office workers or anyone else. To John Pryor, rugby athletes need a great deal of specificity in their training program, and since the same is true in occupational health settings, Pryor has made a concerted effort to develop educational materials and technology-based solutions with the goal of achieving a greater degree of injury prevention while simultaneously improving overall health and wellness.

Pryor’s experience in international athletics includes three years spent as a consultant and a strength and conditioning coach with the Australian Rugby Union, and after a successful run with the Wallabies he accepted his current positions with JointAction and the Japan Rugby Football Union. Pryor has remained deeply committed to continuing research and education throughout his professional career, and his appreciation for the value of these continuing efforts largely began during an academic career at Southern Cross University and the completion of a master’s degree in biomechanics.

Though Pryor has experienced a tremendous run of success with both the Japan Rugby Football Union as well as JointAction, he has nonetheless remained completely committed to developing new principles and strategies to improve the training programs he utilizes in his professional roles. This lack of complacency is at least partially responsible for his ability to develop innovative training methodologies and to achieve such impressive training outcomes, and it is for this reason that both JointAction and the Japan Rugby Football Union are confident in the direction they are headed through Pryor’s exceptional guidance.