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. 20 mins) I always try to start training exactly on time with a light warm-up drill. The purpose of this drill is essentially just to get the team together and to get them to start handling a rugby ball. It is important to me to start on time and I impose a penalty on players who are not ready to start on time – usually a sma
