Rene Naylor: Lessons from the Springboks for everyday life | EP 19

I find that with international sport, we always talk about it's very...

in a year the amount of times you feel on top of your body is actually very little so like i feel most days when i get to a match i'm not in i'm not a hundred percent so my the mind then becomes also just as important because your mind is a superpower like so for an athlete so the same thing would happen i assume for people who wake up and they're feeling a little bit You rock up to the game and you've got no choice.

You're playing a match today, an international match, or there's so many people watching.

I can't quit because I'm feeling stiff or I'm feeling tired.

The game doesn't care if you're tired.

It doesn't care if you're stiff.

You still have to rock up and perform.

i've learned certainly noticed that over the years that my mind is so such a superpower in terms of just getting and we talk about if you're not feeling great today just go to the gym i mean you talk about getting your your strength sessions done it's the same principle it's like your mind then almost starts following and your body goes okay i can do this and that's what sports really taught me

But is there a danger, and particularly aimed at you because you had so many injuries, that your mind overrides your physical ability? So you step out there and you kind of go, I'm going to do this anyway.

And you really take it to your hamstring.

You really take up that elbow.

I mean, Renate, you've kind of taken that.

Yes, that's a very good analogy because often athletes and people feel amazing, but they may not be ready.

And often that's the case of if a guy has, an athlete has had an injury that has taken him out for, you know, 8 to 12 weeks, a muscle strain.

Mm-hmm.

But now there's no pain anymore and he's had a few runs and he's feeling excellent and he wants to go and play.

Particularly cricket, I've learned, is very difficult.

It's not as simple as 80 minutes.

You cannot be on the bench and come on as a bomb squad member or something like that.

They often say, we can manage you in the game.

In rugby.

In cricket also.

You can be managed.

You can hide in the field.

You can hide or, you know.