Fair play to Warren Gatland and his coaching staff.
Following the 2008 Six Nations, and again after the 2011 World Cup, the Welsh team’s rigorous training methods were lavished with praise.
Gatland favoured the cryotheraphy chambers in Spala, Poland to rejuvenate his squad and aid with recoveries. It was a method he first oversaw as Ireland coach, almost a decade previous, but greater success leads to louder praise.
This year, ahead of the World Cup, Wales have followed a different path.
Welsh captain Sam Warburton and his teammates are currently in Fiesch, in the Swiss Alps, beasting themselves in glorious sunshine.
These clips, courtesy of Wales Online, show Warburton and co. tossing tin around like feather dusters.
His forward colleagues are not far behind him. Slow down lads, the World Cup is still over two months away.
Waking at 5am each day for the boot camp, Luke Charteris comments, ‘The training here is tougher, we’re probably doing a bit less training in that in Poland we were doing four sessions a day and here we’re doing two, but they are a long two.’
