It can take 25 games to climb from the first pre-season practice match to the ultimate aim of victory in September
It is important to have strategies to maintain fitness as the season progresses and the emphasis in training changes towards strategy and skill
Maintaining your fitness during the season is critical in ensuring your second half of the season is as successful as your first
Preseason training is a chore, but it is also manageable, if you adhere to some basic rules
For players, coaches and supporters alike this is the best part of the year. For the players it represents the culmination of many, many hours or practise
The Hangar - Dreamtime segment
Players and Coaches hit the phones in Carlton's Membership Department.
Richo catches up with the designer of the 2012 Dreamtime guernsey.
Follow Harry O'Brien on the team's first away game in Brisbane