The days of running hill sprint after hill sprint in the hot Australia sun are gone according to Brumbies Athletic Performance coach Ben Serpell, but that doesn't make a professional preseason training program any easier. As most grassroots clubs begin preseason ahead of their 2018 campaign, we caught up with Serpell to get an inside look at how the Brumbies spend their summer months and find out what we should be doing to get fit ahead of round one. “In the right context, hill sprints can have an effect but when you’ve got guys slowly trudging up a hill at walking pace, you’re not going to get results because if you want to play fast, you need to train fast,” Serpell said. “It’s not about just grinding it out anymore, there is a fair bit more to it. You’ve probably heard personal trainers talk about high intensity training and that’s essentially what we’re doing, just at a far more advanced level and targeted specifically at rugby.” A typical week durin