Swans first-year player Jordan Lockyer has learnt from the best when it comes to recovery and rehabilitation.

The 19-year old, who has spent the majority of his first season at the club on the sidelines with hamstring injuries, had the privilege of recovering alongside Swans co-captain Adam Goodes.

Lockyer said the knowledge he learned from the dual Brownlow medallist was invaluable.

“I’ve definitely learnt a lot about recovery, especially from some of the older guys who have been floating in and out of rehab,” he told sydneyswans.com.au.

“A guy like Goodesy, and just looking at the way he prepares and recovers and just goes about looking after his body is something I really learnt from.

“It was really good to be able to see how professional he was and how he went about it and personally, I’ve really learnt a lot off him.

“Although it’s not that great being injured, working through that at the same time as someone like Goodesy means I’ve really been able to take it all in and learn a lot.”

Lockyer said Goodes did “more recovery than (he) could believe” in an attempt to recover and regain fitness during his injury lay-off earlier this season.

“I was surprised about the ridiculous amount of recovery that the older players do,” Lockyer said.

“I think it was Goodesy’s mentality - to do as much as he could to make his time out of the game as short as possible.

“I was really impressed and there are things I learnt from him that I won’t forget.”

Unfortunately for the teenager, Lockyer’s injuries have kept him out of the game for longer than he would have liked.

After recovering from a hamstring injury on his right leg, poor luck struck again just as Lockyer was about to make his return to football.

“It was my right hamstring, and then in the last session to get the right hamstring right I had to sprint to check it off, and in that last set of sprints I did my left hamstring,” he said.

“It’s been pretty frustrating and I suppose I’ve had three or four weeks just to get over the frustration of doing the left hamstring.”

Despite his bad fortunes, Lockyer remains positive and said he is looking forward to joining his reserves’ team mates in the finals this season.

“I sat down with the medical staff and the coaches last week and we’ve got more of a long-term approach to make sure we get this right,” he said.

“Rather than looking in the short-term and rushing me back, we’ve really just got to get my core right and get my strength up so when I come back I won’t just fall back into rehab.

“The focus right now is just to build up my core strength so I can get back to training, and when that is strong enough they will let me train and play.

“Hopefully I’ll be right to go soon and push to play finals for the reserves.”

The Sydney Swans reserves will face Belconnen at the SCG from 9.30am tomorrow.