Gareth Davies ‘feeling pretty good’ as Wales work intensifies before World Cup
The 32-year-old has been striving to get into peak physical shape since the end of the season.
Gareth Davies is enjoying the grind of Warren Gatland’s Rugby World Cup training camp as the Wales scrum-half turned heads with photos posted on social media.
The 32-year-old has been working to get into peak physical shape since the end of the season with Scarlets.
Gatland’s approach to World Cup warm-ups have become famous in recent times for how hard he likes to push his players to prepare them for the challenge ahead.
Wales face Fiji on September 10 in their first game of Pool C, with Davies and his team-mates aiming to be at their best for the clash in Bordeaux.
The official Welsh Rugby Union Instagram accounts have been posting images from training sessions, with Davies’ physique catching the eye.
“I’m not on Twitter or anything like that, so I’ve not seen too many comments,” he said.
“But the boys have given me a bit of stick. They think there’s a few filters on the pictures. Maybe the cameraman has put some filter on it!
“I’m feeling pretty good. We’re only four or five weeks in, but from day one, I’m feeling fitter than where I was. I’m working really hard and hopefully I can keep improving.”
“It was a good day,” Davies said of the different approach as he explained the activities undertaken.
“We really enjoyed getting off site. We didn’t really know what we were in for to be honest before we got there. It was a tough couple of hours physically – running up a steep hill with a log and jumping in a pool trying to do a lap under the pool without breathing.
“There was a lot of breathing work – trying to recover quicker and stuff like that. We did that for a couple of hours with some power endurance and some wrestling and some circuits and stuff like that.
“There were some weird stressful noises in the background. It was good, quite challenging. We knew it was going to be around the hour mark but it felt like we were there for three or four hours.
“We felt really good after it. We bonded well as a team and got some good positives from it.”
