These are the different aspects you gotta have to be a good netball player. Learn from here and come up with your own activities to improve yourself :)
Netball demands a highly level of physical fitness to ensure that players are ready to perform the specific skills and tasks demanded on court. The specific tasks of netball include repeated short duration of high intensity and normally followed by short rest periods of less intense activities.
- Gerneral endurance is the ability of heart and lungs to resist fatigue over long duration
eg. steady long run [over 15 mins]
- Specific endurance is the ability of heart and lungs to perform sustained high intensity activity.
eg. interval trg [repeated sprints with ample rest in btwn]
- is the basis for speed and power
- activities: push up, sit up, wall squat
- weight trng
- Is the ability of muscles to work at high intensity repeatedly, resisting fatigue.
- Activities include repeated throwing of netball against wall [1 min], quick skipping for 1 min and repeated sprints with little rest in between.
- Also known as explosive strength.
- It is the rate at which our muscle can produce force.
- It results from a well-developed combination of strength and speed.
- Activities: tuck jump, distance throwing, cannon passing, corridor of death
- It is the quickness of our body movements
- Activities include full effort sprinting. [5m to 100m]
- It is the ability to change direction quickly while maintaining speed, balance and control.
- Activities include running from cone to cone, combining movements required in netball. [run to jump, then run in another direction]]
- It is the range of movement in or around a joint or series of joints that allows players to perform movements through the required range of movement.
- Regular stretching is recommended to maintain or improve this component.