There are a multitude of benefits from team sports; confidence, friendship, leadership, respect – the list goes on. What makes rugby unique is that there is room for everyone.
Why Women Should Play Rugby:
1. The workout
It’s the best workout of your life: Forget Legs, Bums and Tums at your local fitness centre. Rugby will give you a high intensity, full body workout that will transform your body faster than any gym programme.
2. Improve self confidence
You’ll be more confident: Playing rugby is one of the fastest ways to realise that, actually, you’re pretty damn resilient. This confidence will transcend the rugby pitch and spill over into your working and social lives too.
3. The Social Life
Playing a team sport such as rugby provides interaction and inclusion which in turn allows you to forge friendships that often carry on away from the field and to the bar! Solidarity and respect are both characteristics of rugby but also of successful friendships.
4. The friendships
You’ll make unbreakable bonds: You’ll want to throw everything on the line for your teammates, and they’ll sure as hell do exactly the same for you.
5. Friends with the opposition too
More often than not, you’ll find yourself sharing a beer or two with the opposition after the match.
6. It’s safer than people make out
I don’t think rugby has ever been safer than it is today. With changes in scrum laws, almost overkill emphasis on not lifting the player in the tackle and a general dim view on any kinds of foul play, the bad injuries are fewer in number.null
7. You'll have insane legs
You’ll get the best legs you’ve ever seen: Apart from when they’re covered in bruises, of course.
8. Everyone welcome
Any body type is welcomed: You don’t have to be a 15 stone monster to play rugby – there really is a position for everyone. If you’re small and agile, you’ll make the perfect winger. If you’re bigger and stronger, you’ll have a lot of fun as a forward.
9. Food…two dinners on a Sunday after a game is acceptable!
For foodies out there this is a clincher. After a tough game you have earned a post match meal on a Sunday at the club, but there is nothing stopping you from having that roast when you get home too! (Submitted by Fi Fletcher)
10. It’s fun!
Enough said.
