It isn’t quite a rerun of the famous scene in the film Rocky where the Sylvester Stallone boxing character trains by repeatedly pounding meat in an abattoir.
But there is still something refreshingly old school about the way Ben Williams has made it into the Wales U20 rugby squad.
“He’s one of the hardest-working players I’ve seen,” said the blindside flanker’s coach at Aberavon RFC, Jason Hyatt.