About 60 rugby trainers, sports physicians and fitness experts from all over the Free State attended a seminar on science in rugby on the Main Campus of the University of the Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein. The seminar was presented by the UFS Sports and Exercise Science Medicine Clinic and Life Healthcare.   Useful information on scientific exercising methods, fitness testing, monitoring of under and over exercising and the practical planning of a match day were given.

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Some of the people attending the seminar were from the left Dr Louis Holtzhausen (Director: UFS Sports and Exercise Medicine Clinic), Dr Pieter Fischer (general practitioner from Jan Kempdorp), Col Peet Kleynhans (former trainer of the Cheetah Rugby Team) and Mr Gerhard van Rensburg rugby trainer of Grey College Primary School).