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Preparing for pre-season sessions and need some help

My club with various ages and abilities is currently on break right now but will start our pre-season practice in mid August with the season starting in November.Basing off of the last season we know that fitness was an issue i need some help in how to prepare my A & B grade squads better for the up coming season!

orvin palacioCoach, Cayman Islands

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Lee-annes NetballCoach, Australia

the club i am involved in, train over the off season for anyone who is keen. our games start in march, and trailing and team club training in feb. only the keen turn up to the xmas school holiday training, but funny they are also many of our top players and those that get into rep teams.

so maybe run fitness programs during the off season, that increases their anaerobic and aerobic fitness levels, as depending on position, they will need fitness in one of these areas. also work on core strength, and jumping ability, and increasing their footwork response times (ie how fast are they off the mark and change direction).

hope that helps

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