’In our sport, we’re basically trying to rebuild an F1 car within five, six or seven days so it can perform at its peak’

Munster head of fitness Adam Trypas on why evolution, not revolution, is key to the province’s development

Whatever the game-plan Rob Penney and his coaching staff have cooked up to beat Toulon tomorrow, you can be sure the head coach is relying on a supreme level of fitness and conditioning in his players with which to execute it.

Against a team of immense physicality and intensity in everything they do, Toulon represent the ultimate challenge of an opposition’s mental and physical strength and stamina and where Munster are concerned the job of keeping that at an optimum falls to the province’s new head of fitness Adam Trypas and his fellow strength and conditioning experts, Aidan O’Connell, Aled Walters, PJ Wilson and Will Douglas.