Pre-season is the perfect time to start building a solid base for your team's fitness in preparation of the first game of the season.
Speed and Endurance
Use these routines to improve your players' agility and stamina running before getting them working in small groups. While focusing on their fitness levels remember to always have them running with a ball in hand, this will help improve their dribbling and passing at the same time as their stamina.
Responsibility for Personal Fitness
To see real improvements in your players' stamina, individuals have to be responsible for their own fitness. It is important they run or play handball three times a week. Any less than this and any improvements in your team's fitness levels will be lost.
For this reason encourage your players to train outside of your handball sessions.
Note: sections of this plan can be used for running a fitness session with groups from 5 to 50 people
"It is not only useful for staff who are experienced but a valuable tool for those subject staff who have to take teams."
The variety of sessions across sports - sometimes we steal session ideas from one sport and use them with another.
As we enter the business end of the competition, we take a look at the remaining eight teams and the key talking points surrounding each side.