With the AFL and NRL finals in full swing, there are more stats than ever floating around, and stats surrounding work rate and effort are particularly interesting. But how important is work rate for a football team, or does it just mean you are spending a lot of energy chasing your opponent on defence?

Today Durham and Jacob discuss the pros and cons of a high work rate and how to best train in order to make sure your fitness is ready when pre-season starts.

A few really important resources for this one:

Sports specific fitness

http://www.coreadvantage.com.au/blog/2015/sports-specific-fitness

You can download our free app for iOS and Android from here

http://www.coreadvantage.com.au/get-the-app/

The Core Advantage Repeat Sprints workout

http://www.coreadvantage.com.au/blog/repeatsprints

And importantly make sure you are respecting and paying close attention to your acute to chronic workload ratio.

http://www.coreadvantage.com.au/blog/acute-chronic-workload-ratio