Jackie. I just thought I’d take this opportunity to give our viewers a little bit more of an explainer of actually what the coaches talk about when they’re talking about load training intensity. The injury crisis is obviously being a big issue for the last two and a half years, and that’s marked because, obviously, they try to change the way they wanna play. Darren Barnes said they wanna play with Temple.

Mike Prendergast wants to attack fast and and, obviously, you gotta be fit to do that. But, obviously, they’ve had a lot of injuries trying to get to that state. And this week, Nick, Nick Winkelman, the Head of Performance in the area of you has been to to to try and help get that training load right. And I was talking to this fitness coach.

They call it a charge. So it’s like a charge of a battery. And if you over if you if you get too low on it, you’re gonna you’re gonna get injured. So you gotta get it right.

So there’s a company called Kitman Labs, an Irish company, they work with one of the best teams in the world. And they capture all the data from the the sports scientists and actually compile it so the coaches, the heads of performance can actually get it redone. And here’s a very simple one. So we all know over the GPS, the units that they were in alright.

That measures distance around. So the total distance is important, and you’ll have teams who know what their optimal total distance is, but also the high speed running meters per minute. That’s the key one, and they’re trying to incorporate that into as much as their train game face training as they can to replicate match conditions. And in Costa spoke this week about having stronger quarter one or quarter three because the data shows that they haven’t been performing in that.

But then you see at the bottom there, these are just some generic photographs to give the viewers an insight into it, but also injury. So what kind of training load, what kind of high speed minutes per minute meters are giving you higher injury load and you obviously gotta be careful of that. The next one then, next slide will just show just everything has a load. So whether it’s a passing session, whether it’s a gym session, whether it’s kicking, they’re gonna attribute a load to that or charge to that.

So they get an overall picture of what the team have done on any given day and obviously try and replicate that because what the body doesn’t like is too much change. There’s nothing wrong with training too hard or too low as long as it’s consistent. So you have a a team picture, you have a forward picture, a backs picture. You can have an over twenty fives picture, under twenty fives picture because training age important.

And then the last slide is the one where the the key is. So individuals.

So, you know, what does Peter Armani need to do on a weekly basis, daily basis to get him ready to place that front eight tonight?

It could be very different. Alex Gildan, the the same profile, but different training age. Nick Winkelman, the Head of Performance for the IRFU, his job is to get the Goldilocks moment for every individual player so that they get the right training load to get them ready to play without getting injured. And it’s not just Graeme Raunchy’s problem.

It’s not Mike Frendegasse. It’s not the Head of Medical. It’s everybody’s issue. The players have a role to play in terms of their recovery, their nutrition, their sleep, etcetera.

But someone like a Head of Performance, their job is to bring it all together to try and make sure Munster have their best players on the field as much as possible. No. It’s a contact sport, but they’re gonna do a better job of getting their best players available to play.