Under 21 Squad begin pre season fitness training

The Under 21 Squad kicked off their strength and conditioning programme last night with the dreaded preseason fitness test at the ASB Sports Centre in Kilbirnie.

The fitness programme this year will be run by Guy Mothersole, the strength and conditioning coach at the High Performance Sport NZ facility.  High Performance Sport NZ are supplying their facilities for the Squad to use as part of the Wellington Youth Talent development programme.

It was great to see the squad matching the fitness levels of Chris Jones, one of their coaches in what was a gruelling hour of tests including a 2.5km row, pull ups, push ups, sit ups, step ups and any other exercise that involves the word “up”.