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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Rugby players"”.
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Assessing the quality of decision-making of expert rugby players
… Decision-making quality of expert athletes in rugby union, as an invasive, open-skill sporting code, has not received the same amount of attention. Past studies on the decision-making of expert athletes in sport have tended to be carried through the isolation of specific cognitive functions and …
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GROWING, BUILDING AND REPAING ELITE RUGBY PLAYERS: Nutritional and Energetic Considerations
It is well documented that Rugby League requires players to experience large impact collisions, repeated multiple times during training and match play, thus requiring high amounts of lean mass. To cope with such demands the pre-season period is typically used to grow and build players’ to elicit …
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Preseason risk factors associated with hamstring injuries in club rugby players
Includes bibliographical references.
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An embodied analysis of male rugby players’ lived experiences of concussion
… are ineffective in contact sports, such as rugby union (hereafter referred to as ‘rugby’). However, there has been limited socio-cultural analyses of this which would allow further understanding as to why individuals find the current policies ineffective. The aim of this research project was …
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Investigating the relationship between sleep and emotion amongst club rugby players
In rugby players, both sleep and the ability to regulate emotion are essential to performance and well-being. For example, poor sleep quality is associated with competition losses, and the inability to regulate emotions such as impulsivity and aggression is detrimental during play and could lead to …
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Injury in elite rugby players during the Super 15 Rugby tournament
Professional rugby union is a contact sport with a high risk of injury. The Super Rugby competition is a particularly demanding 16-week Southern Hemisphere tournament. In this tournament, 15 teams compete and play international level matches every week, which may be associated with an even higher …
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Players’ perspectives: How do New Zealand professional rugby players view personal development?
The New Zealand Rugby Players’ Association (NZRPA) offers a Personal Development Programme (PDP) which equips, empowers, and supports rugby players by providing them with opportunities to explore, learn and develop off-field skills and knowledge. This research project was born from curiosity, and a …
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Training loads, injury profiles and illness in elite South African rugby players
Background Professional Rugby Union is a popular international team sport and is known to have one of the highest reported incidences of injury and illness across sporting codes. The Super Rugby tournament is played annually between professional Rugby Union teams and is one of the most competitive …
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Epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and associated risk factors for injury among university student rugby players
… Specific features of university student rugby players and the tournaments they compete in may involve epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and associated risk factors that differ from other populations. To date, this has not been studied. Aim of the study: To determine the …
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Determining the accumulative physical demands on university male rugby players during the Varsity Cup Rugby tournament
Rugby is a physically demanding sport that is played at a high-intensity and requires players to have high aerobic and anaerobic capacities. Therefore, the aim of the study was to measure the accumulative physical demands on university male rugby players in the Varsity Cup rugby tournament. The …
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The prevalence of patellar tendinopathy in elite academy rugby players: a role for measuring ground reaction forces?
Discussions with rugby team doctors and physiotherapists suggest that the prevalence of patellar tendinopathy (PT) in rugby populations is increasing. However, from a review of the published literature patellar tendinopathy is not a<br/>condition commonly reported in rugby athletes. PT can have …
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Rucking into New Territory: A Case-Study on the Experiences of Pioneer Female Club Rugby Players in Ontario
… the challenges experienced by female pioneer rugby players in Ontario and their participation in a traditionally masculine sport. In order to explore the experiences of the female pioneer club players in Ontario, I conducted interviews with eight women and did multiple forms of content …
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Scottish academy rugby players' lived experiences of career-related traumatic injuries and injury rehabilitation: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Background: Rugby Union is a popular contact sport. Consequently, injury rates are high, and injuries become an inevitable part of a player’s career. There has been major criticism of the sports governing bodies around player welfare and sufficient support for injured players. It is therefore …
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A description of the profiles of U18 rugby players who attended the Craven Week tournament between 2002-2012
Rugby union has rich tradition in South Africa with the national team having won the Rugby World Cup in 1995 and 2007. The major rugby nations South Africa competes against have clearly defined rugby talent identification (TID) and development (TDE) pathways. These pathways are not as well …
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Epidemiology and prevention of rugby injuries amongst schoolboy, senior club and provincial rugby players in the Western Cape
… a series of independent investigations examining rugby injuries occurring to players from under 14 to senior provincial level in the Cape Province (now the Western Cape). The first two studies report data aimed at gaining a more detailed understanding of rugby injuries in specific populations or …
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Investigations in to the physiological and metabolic demands of elite rugby players: understanding how best to fuel the athlete
Rugby is a complex, high-intensity, intermittent, collision sport with emphasis placed on players possessing high lean body-mass and low body-fat. After an 8-12 week pre-season focused on physiological adaptations, emphasis shifts towards optimizing competitive performance and recovery through …
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Playing time of professional senior rugby players across all levels of South African rugby, 2007 -2012: implications for transformation
A single governing body to govern South African rugby was formed in 1992. This allowed for changes to governmental policies to South African sport, resulting in South African sport being fully representative of the population. The South African Rugby Union (SARU) therefore has a continual challenge …
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