With the GAA and GPA still at odds over expenses and the number of training sessions players should be subjected to per week, Jamesie O’Connor maps out a schedule that would make the sports scientists wince.
After losing their Munster and All-Ireland titles in their opening defence against Limerick in June 1996, the Clare players got together again in September and were assigned gym programmes, a relatively novel concept at the time.
O’Connor calculated that he trained 22 times over a 21-day period that November.
