Lewis Stevenson given Hibs pre season flashback as army drills that pushed stars to limit contrast with modern approach

He's pushing himself through a 19th pre-season under his 13th manager but Lewis Stevenson insists he’ll never get tired of pounding the hard yards for Hibs.

From being taken to breaking point by Mixu Paatelainen’s death runs, diving through smoke bombs at army boot camps under Colin Calderwood and now sweating in heat bombs in southern Spain with Lee Johnson the Leith left back has seen it all.

For the average Joe the mental and physical toil would be way beyond the comfort zone. But Stevenson is no average specimen and insists he is ENJOYING the triple sessions in 35C Marbella furnace. And he certainly hopes this won’t be his last. It’s that attitude that’s kept the 35-year-old at the forefront for the Easter Road outfit for two decades and seen him become the club’s record league appearance holder last season. And he’s not done yet. Not by a long shot.

Stevenson said: “People have been asking me how many I’ve done. It’s mad, they don’t get any easier. They’ve probably changed a little bit over the years, with sport science it’s all different now. It’s been good, it’s been tough.

“It’s even harder in this heat! I did a few army ones, that was with Colin Calderwood. Mixu’s were always tough. But it’s hard to distinguish because there have been so many! The army ones were character building. I think the army boys wanted to see if they could break you.

“Physically we were usually not bad at stuff like smoke bombs, where you go under the tunnels. But again I think it was a mental thing. They were good.

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