Hi mate, yes most of that info I know about, but posting it on here is another issue all together, I cant post anything confidential as you will appreciate. Stevie ireland as you are aware does a huge amount of self defence training, we recognise that as "impact training", which will help out fitness immensly, its using almost every muscles in the legs and arms within a short space of time thus giving the muscle a very hard work out without damaging it. That kind of training improves fitness and stamina. Recovery rates are different for each person as we knoe the older you ware the more time recovery from injury or excercise takes. I wont comment on anyone else who trains with different routines, but I will say that a lot of the "bigger" lads do a lot of weightlifting, unsupervised and during the closed season so that when training commences they are physicaly stronger. Diets are very much adhered to, if a player cannot do a certain diet for example due to Religious reasons or if they have a family engagement (where alcohol is likely to be cunsumed) then we work diets around that to ensure fitness is not compremised. Hope this answers some questions.