Improving ability to push of and accelerate.
1. Set up area just like picture. 2 10m boxes, 2 slaloms cone 5m apart and 10m sprint into gates. 2. Players side step side to side in 10m box. 3. When whistle blows they run through slalom as fast as possible. 4. As they are going through slalom you shout a number. 5. That is the gate which the players then sprint through .
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