Worcester Warriors coaches push players to their limits

Davis was in charge of Leeds and the Scarlets before moving to Sixways

Worcester Warriors' coaching staff have been putting their first-team squad through some intensive fitness training ahead of the Championship play-offs.

"We have tried to push them to the limit," head coach Richard Hill told BBC Hereford and Worcester.

"They are hanging in there, we had a week and half with them to try and crack a few but they're in good shape."

Worcester are comfortably top of the table but they enter the crucial play-offs phase of the season in March.

And the Warriors will know that last season, in the inaugural Championship competition, Bristol lead the table for most of the campaign only to lose the two-legged play-off final to Exeter.

"Phil Davies [forwards coach] and I, and the conditioning coaches have tried our hardest to break them.

"We have tried to push them beyond the limit, some of them have not been used to pushing their bodies beyond a certain limit.

"Some like to stay just inside the really painful zone, not going beyond the point where you might be ill."

Worcester return to British and Irish Cup action against Plymouth Albion on Saturday and resume their Championship campaign on Sunday, 30 January away at Cornish Pirates.