REECE LIGHTNING
PAIN AND GAIN
One of Australian rugby’s most potent attacking forces tells you how to use injury-enforced downtime to reshape your rig
WHETHER YOU’RE A PRO athlete or a weekend warrior, few things can feel more disastrous than injury. Does that statement need explaining? No, we didn’t think so. Sometimes, though, approached wisely, a spell on the sidelines can be turned to your advantage. It’s an idea that crystallises when you listen to Reece Hodge, the hard-running, bazookathighed Wallabies utility.
catches up with Hodge, 26, on a recent Monday lunchtime between the first and second Tests of the Wallabies’ recent home series against France. A knee injury – specifically, an MCL tear he suffered back in April playing for the Melbourne Rebels – means Hodge missed the first Test and will sit out the second one, though he hopes to play the series finale in Brisbane. “I’m pretty much good to
