How would you describe the kind of workout a typical rugby match offers?
Probably the best way to describe it is a cross between (American) football and basketball. You’ve got all of the contact of football combined with most of the fluidity of basketball – most players run upwards of 5 kilometers over the course of a match. 4) What are the most common rugby injuries, and how can they be avoided? The most common rugby injuries are bumps and bruises and they only way they can be avoided is by not playing rugby! Basically, rugby injuries run the full spectrum from the very minor to the very serious, although thankfully serious injuries are quite rare. Like a lot of contact sports, knees, ankles and shoulders seem to be ‘favorite’ injury areas. As with any sporting activity, I presume your best chance to avoid injury comes from wearing correct equipment, warming up properly and using good technique on the field. 5) What does a typical training session that you run consist of? In running my sessions I inevitably come back to the following structure: Warm-up (c.
