Mick Casey is the team trainer of Wexford senior footballers and the 36-year old from Waterford city describes the training as being 'sport-specific' saying that the notion of people running up mountains or hills is antiquated. "In that we don't often have the lads together in real terms - we're not professional - so every time we have them, they must be trained specifically for what the game they are playing involves," the former medallist with DeLa Salle says." We play our games on pitchers, so we train on pitchers. Sport-specific is the way forward. Going off on four, five or six mile runs is useless, because no player will do that sort of stuff in any Gaelic games. The average run in a football game is in around 40 metres, so players must be doing the bulk of their running towards what they will do in games. After that, you must vary it with and without the ball, a high and low intensity, dropping the recovery times in between as the year goes on." Tweet

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