Running, Jumping and Swimming Add Spice to Rams' Busy Pre-Season

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Summary

PRE-SEASON is tough - it has to be given the fitness base needed to cope with such a demanding division as the Championship.

Derby County's players have been put through their paces in the past five to six weeks as they build towards the new season.

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Running, Jumping and Swimming Add Spice to Rams' Busy Pre-Season

Ask them and they will tell you how exhausting it has been.

They will also tell you how enjoyable it has been at times.

There has to be a staple diet of running during pre-season - there is no escaping that - and lung-bursting runs can hardly be described as enjoyable.

But the variety within a pre-season is also crucial, because you cannot just flog players around a running track and make what they do monotonous.

Rams manager Nigel Clough and his staff have again varied the type of work ...