What The AFL Grand Final Has in Common With Your Fitness

I love footy. I love footy finals. I especially love grand final day.

I'm a footy nut.

I'm almost 35 and still play senior grade footy with no retirement in sight.

To cap it all off my birthday is around the grand final every year with it actually falling on the grandest of days every 4 years or so!!

In my opinion, Aussie Rules Football is the most eclectic and demanding team sport on the earth. It covers just about any fitness quality you can think of and few more we don't even know exist yet!!

Each year 18 teams start planning for the coming season from September on-wards with some being even earlier if they don't make finals.

Training starts in November.

The pre-season (is this still on by the way?) starts in February.

The season proper starts in March.

The finals start and finish in September.

That's a full 10 months of doing everything they possibly can to reach the ultimate goal - to play in the grand final.

So what's your grand final?

Do you have one?

Maybe it's the spring carnival. Maybe it's the summer holiday.

Whatever it is have you left no stone un-turned in the lead up to your grand final to make sure you make the biggest impression you can?

Regardless of what your grand final is there's a saying I use quite a lot:

"Failing to Prepare Is Preparing to Fail"

If you've set your grand final then plan.

Plan your nutrition.

Plan your training.

Plan everything.

And plan it well in advanced with contingency plans for anything that may go wrong so that you cannot be derailed.

And go Dockers!!