Coventry City players will be straight back to ball work when they return to training on July 4th.
Steven Pressley and fitness guru Pete Tierney are using the same tactics as last season to get the players fit or even fitter to be able to deal with what is a long hard season.
Pressley told the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner: “The players will do the usual first day back testing all the various aspects from their body composition to the yoyo fitness test, basically all the information we need and monitor through the season.
“It’s very much based on last year’s programme again and on day two we start working with a ball and our 11 v 11 work. That’s the way we gain a lot of the players’ fitness throughout the pre-season, which is very much game specific.
“It has changed over the course of the years because many people used to work the opposite way and start with small sided games and end with 11-a-side, but we’ve done a lot of research and Pete has spoken to a lot of people about this and we feel the best way to gain the appropriate levels of fitness is to start with 11 v 11.
“A lot of the top European sides do that, working from larger games down and it’s something we adopted last season and we felt the players really gained the appropriate levels of fitness to start the season.”
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