Encouraging fitness levels by incorporating differnt skills needed in a game.
1. Ladders - put as many as you have out. -Change the footwork they do every 2nd time round. 2. Black Cones - set them 5m apart and 10m diagnals. -Once the player is on last run second player starts ladder. 3. Blue Cone - Set a tackle cylinder on the floor ball at end and another tackle cylinder at an angle. -When player gets there they lie on belly bounce up and then adopt low position to drive tackle cylinder on floor. 4. Green Cone - A bodyweight exercise x15 5 Red Cone - A bodyweight exercise x15 6. Orange Cone - A bodyweight exercise x15 7. White Cones Tackle Cylinders - Sprint to first white cone turn and sprint and tackle cylinder. - Once made tackle bounce to feet turn and make another tackle on 2nd tackle cylinder. 9. Yellow Cones - Make a box -Players then sprint to box and this is rest area.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
in more ways than one
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