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Off and running towards 2004
Fitness machine Kane Cornes led a pack of 13 players through the Power’s first training session of the 2004 pre-season on Wednesday morning.
The Power’s ten players with less than four years AFL experience were required back at pre-season training on Wednesday and were joined by Adam Kingsley, Brendon Lade and Damien Hardwick, who chose to have a run with the youngsters. Players with four or more years AFL experience aren’t required back from holidays until next Wednesday (19 Nov).
The first session, which lasted around 45 minutes, included an 18-minute run in North Adelaide and it was Cornes who set the pace, as he regularly has in recent years.
“We had seven weeks off and I really enjoyed it, we had the footy trip to Hawaii which was great, we got a lot of sun over there. (But) I think if it (the break) was any longer you’d be itching to get back.”
Cornes nominated a couple of stand-out performers from the session and was encouraged by what he saw of Kingsley, who is yet to be offered a contract for Season 2004.
“There were a few good performances, I think Dom Cassisi, Damon White and Stephen Gilham came back in pretty good shape and it should set them up for a big year,” he said.
“If (Kingsley) does get his chance, he really deserves it. I know he has been doing a ton of work which is really good and he looks pretty slim. So if he does get that chance I’m sure he’ll grab it with both hands so I’d like to see him get another crack.”
Fitness coach Andrew Russell said Kingsley, the 1998 John Cahill Medal winner, had done everything asked of him since the end of the season when the club had indicated it may delist him.
“I think you can see Adam has completely changed body shape and he’s worked pretty hard,” Russell said on Wednesday.
“The last month he has had a pretty heavy program that he has been running and I’m reasonably happy with where he is at. Where he ends up is yet to be determined but he is in line at the moment and is showing that he has done the work we wanted him to do.”
The Power will submit a second (but not final) list for 2004 to the AFL this Friday.
Russell, who is entering his fourth year in charge of the Power’s fitness program, said he wasn’t planning any major changes to his pre-season program but pinpointed an area he wanted to improve on from last season.
“I’ve been through the program many times and thought about where I can change it and we don’t need to make major changes. We’re really just bringing in the best parts of the program from the last three years,” he said.
“We had some soft tissue injuries going into the start of last season and that’s an area we need to improve. During the season we had a pretty good program and we thought it ran pretty well.
“Certainly the coaches always want the players to be fitter and there were certain players unavailable in finals that they would have liked but we don’t feel we need a major overhaul in that area.
“Last year the issue was with the players who came back injured and missed the first phase of training prior to Christmas. (On returning) the workload was too high too quick so it’s monitoring loads really and having a fractionally more individualised approach to each player.”
Russell said Wednesday’s session was “an easy run just to let me know where they’re at” and he wasn’t surprised by what he saw.
On the eye-catching performance of Cornes, Russell said Kane had to make sure he didn’t do too much work.
“I love those guys like Kane Cornes who you have to pull back all the time and I’d much rather have 40 Kane Corneses than 40 players who weren’t motivated,” he said.
“Kane’s learned a lot and he now understands that he has to pull back at times and he’s learning about his body all the time.”
Russell said the Power players would do between eight and 12 sessions per week during pre-season depending on the player and their needs.
“Some players don’t need to do quite as much work as others. An example might be Gavin Wanganeen, last year he only did 70 to 75 percent of the pre-season but he did it consistently and he trained almost every day and he didn’t have too many breaks in his program,” he said.
“That’s really the key that players don’t have major breaks in their pre-season even if they don’t do quite the work load that others do. The stats suggest that if you do a consistent training program and don’t break down at all then you’ll have a good year.”
Off and running towards 2004
Fitness machine Kane Cornes led a pack of 13 players through the Power’s first training session of the 2004 pre-season on Wednesday morning.
The Power’s ten players with less than four years AFL experience were required back at pre-season training on Wednesday and were joined by Adam Kingsley, Brendon Lade and Damien Hardwick, who chose to have a run with the youngsters. Players with four or more years AFL experience aren’t required back from holidays until next Wednesday (19 Nov).
The first session, which lasted around 45 minutes, included an 18-minute run in North Adelaide and it was Cornes who set the pace, as he regularly has in recent years.
“We had seven weeks off and I really enjoyed it, we had the footy trip to Hawaii which was great, we got a lot of sun over there. (But) I think if it (the break) was any longer you’d be itching to get back.”
Cornes nominated a couple of stand-out performers from the session and was encouraged by what he saw of Kingsley, who is yet to be offered a contract for Season 2004.
“There were a few good performances, I think Dom Cassisi, Damon White and Stephen Gilham came back in pretty good shape and it should set them up for a big year,” he said.
“If (Kingsley) does get his chance, he really deserves it. I know he has been doing a ton of work which is really good and he looks pretty slim. So if he does get that chance I’m sure he’ll grab it with both hands so I’d like to see him get another crack.”
Fitness coach Andrew Russell said Kingsley, the 1998 John Cahill Medal winner, had done everything asked of him since the end of the season when the club had indicated it may delist him.
“I think you can see Adam has completely changed body shape and he’s worked pretty hard,” Russell said on Wednesday.
“The last month he has had a pretty heavy program that he has been running and I’m reasonably happy with where he is at. Where he ends up is yet to be determined but he is in line at the moment and is showing that he has done the work we wanted him to do.”
The Power will submit a second (but not final) list for 2004 to the AFL this Friday.
Russell, who is entering his fourth year in charge of the Power’s fitness program, said he wasn’t planning any major changes to his pre-season program but pinpointed an area he wanted to improve on from last season.
“I’ve been through the program many times and thought about where I can change it and we don’t need to make major changes. We’re really just bringing in the best parts of the program from the last three years,” he said.
“We had some soft tissue injuries going into the start of last season and that’s an area we need to improve. During the season we had a pretty good program and we thought it ran pretty well.
“Certainly the coaches always want the players to be fitter and there were certain players unavailable in finals that they would have liked but we don’t feel we need a major overhaul in that area.
“Last year the issue was with the players who came back injured and missed the first phase of training prior to Christmas. (On returning) the workload was too high too quick so it’s monitoring loads really and having a fractionally more individualised approach to each player.”
Russell said Wednesday’s session was “an easy run just to let me know where they’re at” and he wasn’t surprised by what he saw.
On the eye-catching performance of Cornes, Russell said Kane had to make sure he didn’t do too much work.
“I love those guys like Kane Cornes who you have to pull back all the time and I’d much rather have 40 Kane Corneses than 40 players who weren’t motivated,” he said.
“Kane’s learned a lot and he now understands that he has to pull back at times and he’s learning about his body all the time.”
Russell said the Power players would do between eight and 12 sessions per week during pre-season depending on the player and their needs.
“Some players don’t need to do quite as much work as others. An example might be Gavin Wanganeen, last year he only did 70 to 75 percent of the pre-season but he did it consistently and he trained almost every day and he didn’t have too many breaks in his program,” he said.
“That’s really the key that players don’t have major breaks in their pre-season even if they don’t do quite the work load that others do. The stats suggest that if you do a consistent training program and don’t break down at all then you’ll have a good year.”
