{"id":609274,"date":"2019-09-19T04:31:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T03:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=609274"},"modified":"2021-03-28T16:24:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T15:24:19","slug":"the-things-a-rugby-player-must-do-before-a-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/the-things-a-rugby-player-must-do-before-a-match\/","title":{"rendered":"The Things a Rugby Player Must Do Before a Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Things a Rugby Player Must Do Before a Match<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-608302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/vrvv-615x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"412\" \/>Rugby is a sport that demands a lot of commitment and dedication to get to your peak performance. Your performance increases drastically when you&#8217;re in the middle of the game rather than when you&#8217;re starting, and that\u2019s because you&#8217;re already in the heat of the moment. This article is going to tell you all about what you can do to achieve that peak performance right from the start.<br \/>\nHere Are 4 Things Rugby Players Should Do Before Getting Out On The Field:<\/p>\n<p>1- <strong>Warm-Up &amp; Stretch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Warming up and doing stretches is never taken as seriously as it should be. Warming up ensures that you get your entire body prepared to go as hard as you want it to. It gives you access to that strange zone you enter the mid-game when you&#8217;re in that heat and feel unstoppable. Stretching loosens up all the muscles in your body so that you&#8217;re free to be as nimble and agile as you want while you&#8217;re on the field. Always remember how important it is to warm up and stretch as your body depends on it because a high percentage of injuries occur when these two steps aren\u2019t done correctly.<\/p>\n<p>2- <strong>Prepare Yourself Mentally<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Getting yourself into the headspace before you go into a match makes all the difference in your performance. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brianmac.co.uk\/articles\/article173.htm\">Preparing both your mind and your body<\/a><\/span><\/span> is essential so that you don\u2019t waste those precious few minutes at the beginning of the match still getting yourself together. Professional sports psychologists are flourishing in the business now because the mental state of the players is a key factor in their performance, so make sure you&#8217;re prepared to start the game instead of thinking that you&#8217;ll get there when the game starts anyway.<\/p>\n<p>3- <strong>Feed Your Body Some Energy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your diet plan plays a huge role in how you&#8217;re going to perform in a game. Ensuring you eat the right food and provide your body with the right nutrients helps, you have enough energy to last through all the physically demanding actions of a rugby game. Manufacturers that make supplements at <a href=\"https:\/\/brutalforce.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Brutal Force supplements<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0agree with the fact that you need to have the right amounts of proteins, carbs, and fat in your body every single day, and that\u2019s difficult to do without eating large amounts of food that make you feel bloated. Eating the correct food along with having supplements to complete your daily intake affects your performance greatly.<\/p>\n<p>4- <strong>Make Sure You\u2019ve Got Protective Gear On<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the amount of collision that happens in a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rulesofsport.com\/sports\/rugby.html\">game of rugby<\/a><\/span><\/span>, any player knows that they can easily lose a tooth per game if they don\u2019t guard themselves correctly. Wearing mouth guards, correct boots and the essential athletic cup save you a lot of mean injuries along the way.<br \/>\nRugby is one of the most physically demanding sports, there is, and to perform well you&#8217;d need to be on the top of your game every single time you step on the field. That\u2019s why the pre-game rituals are extremely important to every rugby player, even if it seems very boring and repetitive to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Things a Rugby Player Must Do Before a Match Rugby is a sport that demands a lot of commitment and dedication to get to your peak performance. Your performance increases drastically when you&#8217;re in the middle of the game rather than when you&#8217;re starting, and that\u2019s because you&#8217;re already in the heat of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":608303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ulster-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}