The Indian women hockey players have become tech-savvy and now understand the purpose of their training sessions, which they were earlier following blindly, experienced midfielder Monika said on Monday. Monika, who was part of the Indian team that competed at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, said Saturday mornings sessions are the toughest. Red sessions are mostly higher-intensity training sessions where we focus on match intensity with the idea of superseding match intensity with small-sided variations," she said in a release issued by Hockey India. Also Read: The Olympics dreams of Jharkhand's hockey queens"Each session is either focused on speed or endurance or direction focused. "We have had a few setbacks with some of our players testing positive, but they are all well and back to training now.

Source: Mint May 19, 2021 04:31 UTC