Women's Australian Football Association

Aussie Rules Skills and Drills

• Introduction to Women's Footy
• Umpire Signals
• Auskick Skills Guide (PDF)
• USAFL Skills Guide (PDF)
• USAFL Training Drills (PDF)
• AFL Skills Videos
• Playing Like a Pro
• Kicking Workshop from 2010 AFL Coaching Clinic
• Kicking Guide for Players
• Kicking Guide for Coaches
• AFL Coaching Style of Play
• AFL Coaching Game Day Coaching
• NY Lady Magpies Orientation Video
• Training Skill Sets
• Pre-training Skill Sets

Conditioning

Off field conditioning for Australian Football should include cardio, strength training, and speed/agility training.

• Tempo Training: 6 weeks to lowering your 2 mile time
• Plyometric Training (Explosiveness)
• Crossfit A great strength and conditioning program that is highly customizable, and provides a forum for people to discuss new training ideas. A really cool site to take a look at for new ideas and for motivation.
• Aussie Rules Football Training Troy Lange, a Melbourne based personal trainer, wants to bring modern footy fitness to the web with his website AussieRulesTraining.blogspot.com
• AFL Community Club Fitness Coaching Australian Football requires motivating players to reach a level of fitness that will get them through the season. Get tips, strategies and worksheets to keep your team in top form.
• Fit Footy  A blog that talks about fitness training for footy. Discusses what is good for off-season, pre-season, and in-season training routines. Talks about nutrition, warm-ups, injury prevention, and includes videos of how to perform exercises correctly. This is a very good site in terms of what you can do to train for aussie rules.
• AFL Fitness Fitness articles from the AFL including Preparing for the finals, Maintaining football specific fitness in season, The 10 Commandments of preseason training, and The 'Competition Phase'
• NOT FOUND: 10_things_you_arent_doing_but_should_be_to_become_a_better_footballer.pdf Troy Lange's report on the 10 most common things that Australian Football players should be doing to become better football players.

Coaching

• AFL Coaching Edge published twice a year, each Coaching Edge edition contains interviews with significant coaches, skills, drills, information from the AFL High Performance program, research-based information and a range of views about football and coaching.
• The Coach Official AFL Level 1 Coaching Manual provides standards and guidelines for conduct, tactics, injury prevention, training and more.