{"id":46265,"date":"2026-08-24T04:15:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wales-pushing-the-pain-barrier-in-bid-to-improve\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T04:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:15:53","slug":"wales-pushing-the-pain-barrier-in-bid-to-improve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wales-pushing-the-pain-barrier-in-bid-to-improve\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales pushing the pain barrier in bid to improve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales kick-off their campaign against South Africa at Cardiff Arms Park on 18 September before hosting USA on 26 September. They will then head out to Japan for two further Tests on 23 and 31 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All three opponents are ranked above 12th-placed Wales, who have lost their last nine competitive fixtures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And despite a welcome victory over Barbarians in June, Lynn&#8217;s side know they are still lacking in a number of areas, notably fitness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is a key focus for strength and conditioning coach Gareth Harris who is out on the main pitch encouraging the players through an intense set of interval runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keira Bevan is rigged with a social media microphone as she races her opposite number to a marked cone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need to work harder,&#8221; Harris said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know where we are from a physical perspective and it is about moving that dial forward. A lot of the girls are pretty sore, but that&#8217;s okay, it&#8217;s all in the plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cqx7n5gw0wxo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales kick-off their campaign against South Africa at Cardiff Arms Park on 18 September before hosting USA on 26 September. They will then head out to Japan for two further Tests on 23 and 31 October. All three opponents are ranked above 12th-placed Wales, who have lost their last nine competitive fixtures. And despite a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46267,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46265\/revisions\/46267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}