
Fatigue Resistance And How To Improve It
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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The Superman Effect in Late Terms
The risk per thousand tackles is unaffected by whether you wear a scrum cap or not. The best and the biggest study to date in rugby came on 2021, I got called Keith Stokes. And it found no evidence that the risk was done. There's all kinds of things going on there. It might be that the players wearing scrum caps are the players more likely to be concussed. So your scrum cap actually is a flag for risk in the first place. Even if it works, it doesn't look like it works because the risk is the same.
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