Dwayne Sweeney spent a full year of his life living inside one of the toughest training environments in New Zealand sport — Gordon Tietjens' NZ Sevens program. In this episode of ShedLife NZ with Jason Davis, Dwayne pulls back the curtain on what it actually took to survive under a man he calls "the David Goggins of New Zealand rugby."

From fitness tests so brutal they'd break modern GPS trackers, to a "death" drill that left just 3 of 14 players still standing from cramp, to the infamous day the balls got left behind in Singapore and Titch responded by running the whole squad into the ground in 40-degree heat for two hours — this is a raw look at old-school Kiwi conditioning that shaped a generation of sevens legends.

Dwayne also opens up on the love-hate relationship every player had with Titch — the redwoods time trials he set to prove his own fitness decades earlier, the mantra that "kicking is for karate," and the philosophy that mattered more than any stopwatch: if you never quit, you were his guy.

We also get into the mental toll of the sevens/15s balancing act, and why — even after everything Titch put him through — the lessons stuck with Dwayne long after he hung up the boots.