Rugby pain question for an older beginning player.?

It's just lactic acid build up and muscle pinching. Your muscles and blood circulatory networks aren't used to it. And yes it gets worse the older you get. You probably should've stretched and warmed up your upper body muscles first, it wouldn't be as bad.

Don't worry about it, after a few painful weeks it should disappear and you'll be right as rain and feeling stronger than ever.

Enjoy your rugby.

Its obviously going to be worse the older are, however, being your first season, these pains and aches are going to be natural. Its going to come along with training and doing exercises to help with the game. You cant just expect to run on to the field and play the game. Take protein as well as it will help to repair your muscle tissues and make them stronger. One thing about the game, the older you get, the more intelligent about your play you have to be. Work on your technique especially in tackling. When you younger you can afford to just run into a bloke, but because you older and you not used to it, your body wont take to ramming into players kindly. So work on your technique for all aspects of the game. Im younger but i also found that the more i worked on my technique in the game, the better my game became. I was generally one of the smallest blokes on the field too, so i couldn't just run around.

Your mother is trying to protect you from hurt as let's face it very few people get to the top. We all have dreams but eventually most of us - but not all - have to realise that we didn't make the grade. However, this is not for your mother to tell you, it is for you to either reach your goal, or learn from trying. Your mother is, in fact, also trying to get you to give this up due to the strain that you yourself admit that this is placing on the family. Is it fair for you to visit your traumas, stress etc onto them? No. They have their own lives and your ambitions are negatively impacting on theirs. You need to find a way in which you balance your ambitions with their and your needs, rather than driving at this in quite such a narrow-minded way which is perhaps blinding you to the effects it is having on your family. Good luck and hope to see you on day on TV

Welcome to the joys of rugby, lol.