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PRE-SEASON TRAINING DO'S #15 - SET THE STANDARD EARLY

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail, or in this case failing to set the standard is failing to reach the standard. We've all heard of or been in teams who might

PRE-SEASON TRAINING DO'S #14 - TRAINING TO DEVELOP FORCE

When you run sprint, your knee lifts up and over then comes down to the ground which is where the magic happens. Your ability to hit the ground on each and every

PRE-SEASON TRAINING DO'S #13 - GROUP PLAYERS FOR RUNNING DRILLS

I'm currently doing the pre-season training for some local/amateur teams and on of the things I'll be implementing is the grouping of players depending on their

PRE-SEASON TRAINING DO'S #12 - PRE XMAS TRAINING

Some tams have already started but my own personal team and another team I'm doing the fitness work for is slated to kick off this week and here's what I have laid

PRE-SEASON TRAINING DO'S #11 - MARGINAL GAINS

Marginal gains is something I found Olympic athletes use to further improvement. These athletes are literally in the top 1% of their sport so every teeny tiny bit

PRE-SEASON TRAINING DO'S #10 - INCREASING SPRINTING SPEED

I'm all about sprinting speed. There is nothing more coveted in team sports than speed. The easiest way to be fast is to be born fast but if you fail at that, and

PRE-SEASON TRAINING DO'S #9 - PLAYER GOAL SETTING

In a previous post we looked at player motivation in local/amateur footy and it looks something like this: What we're left with is a continuum of player motivation:

PRE-SEASON TRAINING DO'S #8 - DATA COLLECTION + USAGE

PRE-SEASON TRAINING DO'S #8 - FOOTY RUNNING FITNESS (long but mind blowing) I'm sure you've all heard of energy systems before in relation to fitness and as like

PRE-SEASON TRAINING DO'S #7 - DATA COLLECTION + USAGE

Most of you are well aware of the metric AFL system where every tiny bit of data is collected and is then put into a pile to hopefully deliver some data that we

Australian Rules Football - Pre Season Training

PRE-SEASON TRAINING DO'S #6 - MAKE EVERY MINUTE COUNT I was chatting with a local/amateur coach today who's having me program all his pre-season training or him

Australian Rules Football - Pre Season Training

PRE-SEASON TRAINING DO'S #5 - AEROBIC CAPACITY Aerobic Capacity is what everyone refers to as "base fitness" or "run in the legs." When most

Australian Rules Football - Pre Season Training

PRE-SEASON TRAINING DO'S #4 - PLAYER INPUT AND FEEDBACK As much as coaches would love to run their teams where everyone toes the line all the time, it simply won't

Australian Rules Football - Pre Season Training

PRE-SEASON TRAINING DO'S #3 - EXTENSIVE REACTIVENESS In the initial weeks of pre-season there's a good chance that some players haven't really done a lot of impact

Australian Rules Football - Pre Season Training

PRE-SEASON TRAINING DO'S #2 - BETTER FITNESS TESTING The first night of training usually includes the dreaded time trial over 2 - 3kms but my question is - what

Australian Rules Football - Pre Season Training

PRE-SEASON TRAINING DO'S #1 - SKILL WORK In all sports you have mechanical and operational output. In regards to football, and thus kicking, mechanical output is