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Ready for stick and ball? Pre-Season conditioning session

This week we're bringing you the forth and final instalment of your Pre-Season conditioning program before we start with your stick and ball sessions.

We hope that you've enjoyed using the Sportplan conditioning sessions, seeing real results with your players' fitness levels through giving structure to your pre-season fitness preparations.

In this final full-length fitness session we work on a little bit of everything - Strength, Cardio, Speed and Agility. So go on, dig deep and push hard with this final session to get all your players' systems working!

We're not going to drop the fitness though, from next week in addition to your regular Sportplan session you can look forward to Sportplan's bite-size fitness sessions! At only half an hour long they're ideal for using with your players before you get to work on their stick work.

From warm-up to cool-down this session explains every step of your training with detailed notes and images, enabling you to push your players hard to get them fit and raring for the approaching season.

PLUS - each session comes with a handy A4 summary sheet for you print and take with you to the pitch.

In addition to this work-out session we're also sharing with you a second Sportplan session which works on switching the ball out of the danger area. In this full length session we focus on passing the ball to create space and expose holes in your opposition's defence.

Try both these brilliant sessions with your players today, one for stick work and the other for pre-season conditioning.

One final push! Dig deep and feel the burn! - full members can get their copy, log in and download it now, or you can upgrade today to get your Sportplan Pre-Season conditioning session.

Keep possession like the Kookaburras!

Don't stop now! This week we're bringing you part 3 of your Pre-Season conditioning program - Written by a professional personal trainer specifically for getting hockey players ready for the fast approaching season - which continues to work your players hard, improving their cardiovascular endurance and leg strength.

In this week's session we continue to push your players hard, gradually increasing the intensity so that your players will be fit and ready for their first match. By preparing for the next season you'll get them mentally and physically ready for the new season. By building up their strength and stamina levels you'll be able to help your players avoid getting injured by preparing their muscles for demands of a full 70 minute long match.

From warm-up to cool-down this session explains every step of your training with detailed notes and images, enabling you to push your players hard to get them fit and raring for the approaching season.

PLUS - each session comes with a handy A4 summary sheet for you print and take with you to the pitch.

In addition to this work-out session we're also sharing with you a second Sportplan session which works on the dribble-dash. In this full length session we focus on running at speed with the ball under control towards defenders.

Why not try both these brilliant sessions with your players today, one for stick work and the other for pre-season conditioning.

Keep pushing hard and feel the burn! - full members can get their copy, log in and download it now, or you can upgrade today to get your Sportplan Pre-Season conditioning session.

Make your players meet the pass!

This week we're bringing you part 2 of your Pre-Season conditioning program for you to use with your team - Written by a professional personal trainer specifically for getting hockey players ready for the fast approaching season as well as an additional session focussing on running to support the player on the ball, moving into space and timing your runs so that you arrive just as the ball does.!

Continuing from last week's session we work on improving your players' strength, aerobic and anaerobic levels through interval training, improving their endurance fitness - working on all the major muscle groups to help your players avoid getting injured and building the foundations for future development. Hockey is a physically demanding sport and players require a blend of strength, power and muscular endurance.

From warm-up to cool-down this session explains every step of your training with detailed notes and images, enabling you to push your players hard to get them fit and raring for the approaching season.

PLUS - each session comes with a handy A4 summary sheet for you print and take with you to the pitch.

To really see a difference in your players' fitness though they will need to be working outside of training as well, just 20 minutes of physical exercise 3-5 times a week is enough to see an improvement in their general fitness levels. Seeing how next week's Conditioning session increases the intensity again, reducing rest periods between exercises, now would be the perfect time for your players truly getting fit and ready for the season.

Feel the burn! - full members can get their copy, log in and download it now, or you can upgrade today to get your Sportplan Pre-Season conditioning session.