ASSISTANT coach Andy Last says Hull FC's players are benefiting from a variety to their training which is bringing out the best in them.
Last, who alongside new head coach Lee Radford has been putting the Black and Whites through their paces for the past month, says he's been delighted with the results.
The new coaching pair threw out the previous training regime, while also changing the club's plays and calls in an effort to stamp their own authority, bring new ideas and freshen up the approach to training.
Longer days have been introduced, but with the more hours at training has come a varied approach. Long field or video sessions have been replaced with short, sharp sessions, with variety and not overburdening the players in one area the key.
While only a month into the new regime, Last says he and Radford have been impressed with the response from the players.
"Like all pre-seasons at this stage, the strength and conditioning department dictate a little bit what you get done in the first month," Last told the Mail.
"What we have tried to do as a staff is get some variation into pre-season.
"Myself and Radders have done a lot of pre-seasons over the years as players and coaches and they can be very long and it can get tedious for the guys.
"It becomes like Groundhog Day for the players where they don't enjoy it.
"The intensity drops as a result and while you feel it's a hard pre-season, when you look back at it, it wasn't as intense as you'd hoped or imagined.
"What we have done is made the days long, but varied with all sorts of different things and every day is different for them.
"The feedback we've had from the players is great, which is good."
