How does a Springbok survive an international season? The training, the travel, 80 brutal minutes of game time, and then turning up fit and ready again the next week.
Meanwhile someone who plays social touch rugby every second weekend ends up with an injury that takes them out for six weeks.
Rene Naylor has been the Springboks' physiotherapist for close to 17 years, and now consults to Cricket South Africa on high performance. Her job has never been fixing injuries. It has been making sure they do not happen.
Sean Lunn, Faf du Plessis and Dr Michael Mol sit down with her to answer one question: how do you build a body that survives your life?
CHAPTERS
0:00 How do the Springboks do it?
3:44 Keeping players available, week after week
5:18 Load and capacity, explained
6:03 Elite athletes get injured too
7:12 What "listen to your body" actually means
8:56 If you have pain, it is a message
10:18 Faf on the days you do not feel ready
11:10 Feeling great is not the same as being ready
12:57 Why parents are the worst with their kids
16:33 The one number that beats any wearable
22:37 The early warning sign most people ignore
29:44 Weekend warriors and the injuries that follow
31:38 Before the biohacks, there is the work
35:08 The best exercise in the world
36:32 Training your balance while you brush your teeth
37:50 How to survive the dad's race
42:18 Why padel is filling physio rooms
43:37 How training should change through menopause
47:31 What Springbok recovery actually looks like
53:13 The one thing you can do tomorrow
Timestamps are approximate.
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