Elite rugby players try brain-training games to help boost onfield performance

Sporting success might be in the mind … at least partially.

An elite group of rugby players are helping investigate the effect of brain-training games on sports performance. Players from Northampton Saints, the professional U.K. rugby club that won 2014’s Aviva Premiership and the European Challenge Cup, are using the Peak mobile app as part of their training sessions this season. They’re helping to establish whether there’s a link between brain training and elite sports performance as part of a University of Cambridge study.