Retired rugby referee, Wayne Barnes has called for all officials to have ready access to psychologists and counsellors 🧠 #TelegraphRugby

Incredible clip of Novak Djokovic on the mental aspect of his tennis game (reading other player, dealing with self-doubt and breathing to calm his mind).

We are calling on all retired professional rugby players to participate in an exciting research study funded by World Rugby & supported by SARU, SARLA & MyPlayers. Click on this link or see the images for more information and to sign up bit.ly/3lfA5rH 💪🏉

If I remember correctly, a few minutes before this photo you were doing commentary in your boxers Mpho Mbiyozo ! Happy birthday for yesterday 🍻🍻Hope you celebrated well

Great cognitive reframing here🧠Simple, but so powerful.

I love the honest reflection. Intrinsic (love of running) and extrinsic (Porsche 🚘 ) motivation are both crucial. Future Elite: Empowering Young athletes talks about exactly this. Please send me a DM if you would like me to send you the activity book for the first module for

📓 Brilliant to see the Power of Journaling at the Olympics 📓 A couple of months ago, I started handing every young athlete I work with a journal. Why? Because the athletes who made the quickest and most significant progress made journaling part of their sport journey.

Super excited to have the second paper of our study on health support for retired professional rugby players published in SA J Sports Medicine Key findings: 🧠 The retired professional rugby players reported significantly lower global mental health levels compared to the matched

New paper: "Pain, impairment, medication use and health-related quality of life of retired professional rugby players" Johan le Roux ChristaJvRensburg Steve den Hollander @KerkhoffsG SportsMedUP ACHSS @amsterdamumchttps://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/sajsm/article/view/17651

The ‘small things’ matter. Guess which side the @springboks were warming up. Wow the Principality Stadium is incredible.

What a game! First story in our Super Sports Stories for kids series as well with Herschelle Gibbs stealing the show🏏🎙️ podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/sup…

New paper "Shoulder and knee surgery double odds of osteoarthritis in retired professional rugby players" Johan le Roux ChristaJvRensburg @KerkhoffsG Simon Kemp Mike Lambert Clint Readhead Keith Stokes Wayne Viljoen SportsMedUP ACES_Amsterdam jsams.org/article/S1440-…