Full Game Fitness Test
Endurance & Recovery
Legend
- two teams
- ball
- scrimmage route
How it works
Sustain competitive technical performance across a 60-minute game-simulation conditioning session.
What you need
- lacrosse stick
- lacrosse ball
- cones
- goal
- pinnies
- timer
Your focus
Full-game fitness requires players to execute skills, decisions, and physical actions with the same quality in the 60th minute as in the 1st. This drill tests and builds game-length conditioning with technical accountability built in.
Run a 6v6 scrimmage in three 20-minute thirds with 3-minute rest between.
After each third, every player rates their technical quality on a 1-5 scale.
Coach compares technical quality ratings across thirds to identify fitness-related degradation.
Post-session: each player identifies the skill that suffered most and commits to its conditioning training.
Goal
It's clicking when your performance in the final quarter of the session looks the same as the first, that's the standard, and everything before it is just building toward it.
Helpful cues
- If your catches get worse in the third period, your endurance is limiting your skill
- Pace yourself in the first third, don't go all-out and fade
- The fittest player doesn't always run the fastest; they make the best decisions in the 60th minute
Adjust the challenge
Make it easier
Strip it back
Reduce to two 15-minute halves.
UpLVL it
Add the next challenge
Add a specific technical metric tracked per third (e.g., pass completion rate, ground ball win rate).No account needed
Build a practice plan
Add drills, keep the plan in this browser, then share a link with your staff or parents.This library helps you find the right drill. Inside UpLVL the right drill finds the player.
This library helps you find the right drill. Inside UpLVL the right drill finds the player.After every practice, UpLVL automatically surfaces the drills each player needs to work on most. See it for yourself.