Top fitness coach Mike McGurn has challenged the GAA's ban on close-season training, and insists that the organisation is mistaken in thinking that the move will prevent player burnout.
The Belfast man feels the decision to stop collective training in November and December could mean that the players are at a greater risk of injury.
McGurn will soon join Paddy O'Rourke's backroom team with Armagh's senior footballers, after previously working with the Irish rugby team, rugby league side St Helens, the Ospreys and former boxing world champion Bernard Dunne.
McGurn feels that short, sharp bursts of training through the winter months are beneficial to players, and could prevent injuries occurring during the playing season.
"I think they're missing the point here - they're on about player burnout, if you train for two hours you're going to get burned out," McGurn said at the launch of Kinetica's new range of sports nutrition products.
"My training sessions take 45 minutes maximum. You get in, you rip the place apart and get out again. If you're doing two 45-minute sessions a week you won't burn out, ever.
"It's when you bring them in and do the laps and do two and half hours, which is happening, you burn out."
McGurn was suspended by the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) in 2002 after publicly complaining about the sport's three-week pre-season, but insisted that he was vindicated by rugby's response to his criticisms.
"I don't regret it because it led to us getting a 12-week pre-season and we haven't looked back since."