India Focuses on Fitness as Hockey Teams Intensify World Cup Camps

Overview

• Both the men’s and women’s squads are training at the Sports Authority of India centre in Bengaluru with strength and conditioning made the central priority to peak physically for the FIH Hockey World Cup.
• Coaches Craig Fulton and Sjoerd Marijne say the camp schedule balances high, medium and low-intensity work, tactical unit sessions, daily video review and monitored workloads to prevent overload.
• The men enter the month of final preparation on confidence from Pro League wins over Germany, the Netherlands and Pakistan while the women arrive on an unbeaten Nations Cup run that won them the title and promotion to next season’s Pro League.
• The teams are both in Pool D for the World Cup with the men set to play Wales, England and Pakistan and the women drawn to face China, South Africa and England in group play.
• The national camps began in mid‑July, and coaches say this concentrated build-up is intended to produce measured gains in fitness and match sharpness that could affect India’s World Cup and later Asian Games campaigns.