A tough fitness exercise that works your players' speed stamina. Depending on your team's age/ ability you can choose to do the simple course (in blue) or the advanced one (in red).
Players all line up on the baseline and must run out to each line (starting with closest first) and upon reaching it turn back to the baseline and then out the next line.
Players should touch each line with their foot, though if you want to make this tougher still you can instruct them to touch the lines with their hands.
Although this is physically demanding players should try to maintain a high running speed throughout.
Allow adequate resting time afterwards!
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