Warmups/Games with markers

Just a few ideas that I use in my sessions. Can be used as part of warm-ups and involves a bit of SAQ (Speed, Agility, Quickness) or for younger kids it could easily just be a game for them to play

- Firstly place 20+ markers/cones randomly spread around in a confined area...penalty box, centre circle or around a sports hall. From this point, theres plenty of different ways you could go with your session:

Jumping
- Get the participants to jump over the markers, then move onto another one and repeat this process. This could be varied with jumping with their feet together or hopping. Another one could be jumping over the marker, then jumping backwards back over it.
- A challenge could be added for participants to jump over as many markers in they can in a set time period. At the end, ask them how many jumps they made. Always find it funny how the younger ones lie about their scores.

Flipping over the Markers
- With all the markers on floor, set the group a challenge to flip them all over so they are upside down. Repeat this a few times. Young ones like it because to them its a fun game. Older ones seem to like the challenge too.

Colours Game
- As part of the warm up, get the group to move around the confined area. When coach shouts out a colour, they have to find that colour of marker and stand there. Its quite funny with the younger ones if you shout out a colour that doesnt match any of the markers.
- As a variation of this, get the group to move around. Once they approach a certain colour of marker they have to do a certain action
eg. red marker = hamstring stretch, green marker = calf stretch

Follow the Colours
- To start with, tell the group to go and find a marker each to start at. When you tell them to, they have to move around running to markers of the same colour as they started at. eg. If they start at a red marker, they'll move to another red marker, then another...and so on.