Gold Coast SUNS utility Aaron Hall has his eyes firmly set on making the most of a clean bill of health at this time of year, something that has been an anomaly throughout his short career.
The 25-year-old overcame a non-existent pre-season last year to produce a stunning revival in the back half of the season, morphing from a half-forward flanker to a game-breaking midfielder in the closing stages of the 2015 campaign.
Under the guidance of new SUNS high performance manager Justin Cordy, the Tasmanian is determined to improve his aerobic base over the summer months to allow him to run out games better and build on his impressive finish to last season.
“For me, this pre-season will be about my endurance. It will be about trying to play midfield consistently in 2016 and running out four quarters,” Hall told the media at a press conference at Metricon Stadium on Wednesday.
“He’s [Cordy] targeted it saying my power and my speed is obviously a plus, so we’ll obviously work on that stuff and try to get quicker and more powerful, but for me the 2016 pre-season is going to be more endurance based.”
Highly regarded sports science expert, Cordy, has only had access to the playing group for a few days, but already Hall believes the main difference in his method to previous regimes is his commitment to individualising each program to tailor each player’s specific needs.
“I think Justin Cordy, our new high performance manager, he’s really trying to make it an individual program,” Hall said.
“So guys that need to work on their endurance they’ll do more endurance based running. If you need to work on your repeat efforts you’ll do that and also guys who aren’t as powerful but are endurance beasts they’ll work on their power side of things.
“I think he’s trying to hone down on where we need to improve and also keeping the strong stuff that you’ve got up to an elite level.”
Gold Coast’s first to fourth year players begun pre-season training at Metricon Stadium on Monday, with the remainder of the playing list set to resume on November 23.
Hall looking to cash in on clean bill of health
Aaron Hall has his eyes firmly set on making the most of a clean bill of health at this time of year, something that has been an anomaly throughout his short career.
