Tottenham players in gruelling training sessions on pre-season tour to South Korea that leaves Harry Kane and Heung-min Son collapsed on floor as Antonio Conte gets players fit for new Premier League season

If Antonio Conte is your manager, you know he is going to make you run.

The Italian wants his players in the best shape of their life and the Tottenham boss is putting his players through their paces at the start of pre-season.

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Although they have jetted off to South Korea to play some friendlies and meet their adoring fans, there is no let up on the intensity of the sessions.

Clips and videos of the brutal training regimes have been posted on social media, that has left players collapsing on the side of the pitch.

Conte and fitness coach Gian Piero Ventura were making players undertake 42 full pitch runs after a two-hour training session in 30 degree heat.

Players were dropping out, collapsing by the touchline, before then rejoining the rest of the group.

Nobody was immune from the gruelling nature of the sessions as even Harry Kane and Heung-min Son were among the players dropping out.

According to the SpursOTM Twitter account, Bryan Gil and Pape Matar Sarr were two players who stayed at the front and were running the hardest.

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Despite being absolutely exhausted, the players made sure they thanked the fans for turning out to watch the open training session.

National hero Son stayed the longest to do a full lap around the pitch before heading back to the changing rooms.

It will all be part of Conte’s plans to make his players the fittest in the Premier League.

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Shortly after he joined the club last year, full-back Sergio Reguillion said of training sessions: "They are tough. Really tough. For the manager, you can rest after the end of the season, not during it! 

“Our work in them depends on the day, but it is tactical, technical and in the gym - that's the worst for me. And it's also run, run, run, run. I think it is necessary for us though.”