Day four of the Collingwood Football Club’s training camp at the Northern Arizona University (NAU) high altitude training centre in Flagstaff, Arizona, involved some training with a difference.Head of conditioning David Buttifant put together a program where all players, coaching, fitness and medical staff were divided up into seven different teams, with each group participating in seven different activities focused on strength and endurance.The group then watched the Northern Arizona University football team, the ‘Lumberjacks’, beat Weber State 42-17, with NAU’s quarterback throwing a career-high six touchdowns.collingwoodfc.com.au caught up with Harry O’Brien at the end of day four, and Harry spoke about training that day, a recent trip back home to Brazil and becoming a regular senior player in 2007.Here is the full transcript of Russell Butler’s interview with Harry, as well as photos from day four:Russell Butler: Harry O’Brien, your second year here in Flagstaff, how does this year compare to last?Harry O’Brien: This year I suppose we’ve got 11 new blokes here who haven’t trained at high altitude, so it is a new thing for them and for us guys (returning) the program’s changed a lot, in terms of… we don’t know what’s going to happen next, we don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, we could be doing the Grand Canyon, or we could be doing sprints at the Skydome, so we’re all on our toes, and we’re all excited about what’s going to happen next where as last year we all knew the program, and this year we also know that we have to push our bodies a lot harder if we’re going to achieve more success than what we did last yearRB: And what does it do in terms of being away and living with each other 24 hours a day, what does that do in terms of either team bonding or mateship type thing. Is that beneficial or is that something that would develop anyway? HO’B: I think this does speed it up in terms of what we can achieve back home just training or going back to our families or our houses. I suppose we’re inside each others pockets 24/7, you do get a little frustrated with each other every now and again as naturally you probably would, just that you’re going through a whole lot together and you get to know people who you haven’t really spoken much to in the past, it speeds it all up I think.RB: Well let’s talk about today, a slightly different day to a regular skills session or fitness session, can you give us a bit of a run through of what today was all about? HO’B: Today we all got allocated into seven different teams, it was called the seven deadly sins. Butters (David Buttifant – head of conditioning) our fitness guru set up a competition, a world’s strongest man type thing, it was different cross training. First event was 800 metres, next event was maximum strength reps, and we were on the bike, we did a swim, it was really good. It was a good way of doing hard work rather than just running 20 repetitive laps. It kept us on our toes, we didn’t know what to expect when he told us we were going to be doing the events. It was a really competitive spirit there. The individual teams of seven, we all stuck together, even the coaching staff, the physios and the doctors were in the team, I think if the football department can bond the way we did today, we’ll have a really good season.RB: Then this afternoon you had the opportunity to go and watch a gridiron match, how do you find that game? HO’B: It was very different, I was actually absolutely buggered from today, so I was actually nodding off a bit. I had to leave at half time because I was that buggered, but that’s all they play on TV here, so I’m sure I won’t miss out on too much gridiron action.RB: And recently, during the off season, you had the chance to go back to Brazil, and catch up with people there, but you also took a whole bunch of footballs I believe and dealt with some kids and ran some clinics, what happened there? HO’B: Yeah I went back home to Brazil, back to Rio de Janeiro where I was born. Spent time with my family there, and before I left I asked the AFL if they could give me a couple of footys, so I think they gave me 20-odd footys, so I took them back to Brazil, and I ran a couple of clinics there in the 'favelas', which are pretty much the slums run by the drug dealers. The kids, everyone I suppose lives in poverty there, so the kids were just rapt to see something different. I went there in the morning and left in the afternoon, and by the end of it all the kids were playing AFL footy on the street, it was just excellent to see that.RB: Looking forward to 2007, what are you going to be doing to make sure you’re a regular feature in the black and white jumper? HO’B: Yeah obviously my third season now and I’m on the senior list so I can just focus on playing senior footy for Collingwood and I think the two years that I’ve had so far, I’ve just learnt a lot on how to prepare my body, obviously with your diet, your sleep, just the way you train, I think I’ve learnt a hell of a lot, I’ve matured a lot as a person as well which I think will hold me in good stead. It’s all familiar to me now, now I know how to push my body further, I can do things better, so there’s only more improvement from here.RB: Fantastic, well best of luck with the rest of the camp, and thanks for your time. HO’B: No problems, thanks.The official 2006 Collingwood Football Club pre-season training camp in Arizona is being made possible by the generous support of Wizard Home Loans.Stay tuned to collingwoodfc.com.au over the next two weeks for coverage of the Arizona training camp, including daily updates, player interviews and lots of photos.Photography courtesy Russell Butler