
Warm Up - 20 mins 40 x 40 Square each corner has a different colourered cone. Players in sqaure and 6/8 balls 2 touch pass and move. Coach shouts a body part and the players have to get that on the ground hold for 3 secnds and carry on. Coach can shout a stretch also. If coach shouts a colour all players must sprint to it. Strides & Stretches - 5 sets Agility Drill. 3 sets (only one in diagram) Player takes up the plank position at front of queue. coach shouts a colour and the player spints to it, jockeys back to the start cone, then sprints out to ball dribles through cones and turns at the end, then dribles back through leaving ball and sprint to the end and tap the next man in the queue whose in the plank position. 15/20 mins. Strdies 5 sets and streches Conditioned game at the end all in one touch finish.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
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