Netball: Fartlek Challenge

Fitness, something which everyone has the ability to improve and what can make all the difference when it gets close at the end.

Don't let your players tire in a match, get to work on their fitness with this speed and agility session!

Improve your team’s fitness with this session and see a rise in their performance on court!

Get your players fit and fired up for the season ahead with this all-rounder fitness session

Two lines stand about 5 meters apart with another two lines stood perpendicular so that players are stood in an 'x' formation.

As one player runs out without the ball they receive a pass from directly in front of them.

They must immediately pass the ball to the player on their left and then run to the back of the line opposite their starting line.

Whilst passing the ball to each other, three players run in a line across the width of court.

Players number themselves 1, 2 and 3 and pass in the following pattern:

1 passes to 2, 2 to 3 and 3 to 1...

Jogging and footwork patterns.

Players jog around the court, preforming different footwork patterns along different sides can be any lines on the court, players do not have to run around the perimeter).

With older players allow the player at the front of the line to lead, the other players must follow their example. Regularly change the player at the front of the line.

• Split your players into two equal teams and put down an equal number of cones in each final third.
• The two teams compete against one another, trying to take cones/bibs from their opponents area and place them behind their line.