Limerick's Stephen Lavin has found a secret weapon is his bid to stay fit … yoga.

Lavin is one of the most experienced players on the Limerick team and at 32 years of age, his inter county career is in its twilight.

This weekend, the defender is preparing Clare in the Munster SFC semi final.

However, in his desire to stay injury free, Lavin is following in the footsteps as such noted sports stars as Roy Keane and Ryan Giggs as he takes part in regular yoga sessions, something he told the Limerick Leader that he wished he had started earlier in his career.

"I only wished I started to do all that stuff when I was younger because right now I find it a life saver because touch wood I would have been relatively injury free barring a couple of small things," said Lavin.

"I know it's the old cliché but fail to prepare, prepare to fail. If I wasn't doing all this stuff then I wouldn't be worth my place on the team so I do that to make my place on the team.

"I do think that the yoga is great - brilliant. In terms of flexibility and recovery and core strength. It's not just a gimmick, you would see a lot of serious sports people in there. If someone like Roy Keane and Ryan Giggs are doing it there has to be a good reason for it. Ryan Giggs is still playing at 38-39." Tweet

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