Suns' fitness below elite level

Gold Coast Suns big man Zac Smith, left, battles with ruck coach Matt Primus while training at Metricon Stadium. Picture: David Clark. Source: The Courier-Mail

NEW Suns fitness boss Stephen Schwerdt has revealed the squad is still at least a year away from training as well as most AFL teams despite upping the ante this pre-season.

The call comes after the squad completed its toughest week of pre-season training, with a host of senior players given this week off to recover.

Schwerdt, who was Adelaide's fitness manager for 13 years before he joined the Suns late last year, was happy with the progress of the majority of the squad but warned the club still had a way to go to bridge the gap to the top AFL teams.

"Adelaide have been considered for a long time to be one of the leaders in that area and are we going to be at that level by the end of the pre-season, maybe not," Schwerdt said.

"But some guys have done even a bit more than perhaps we did in Adelaide.

"But as a whole we are a little bit below that but we are bridging the gap and that's the pleasing thing."

The next pre-season we do will be what you consider for an experienced AFL footballer

Schwerdt singled out versatile tall Steven May as the player that has impressed him most this pre-season and revealed some seasoned players were training as well as the best performers at his former club.

"Jared Brennan was very impressive in Arizona and has continued in that vein, and Jarrod Harbrow and Karmichael Hunt are as good as trainers as anyone I've seen at Adelaide," Schwerdt added.

"Brandon Matera has been working hard too but probably the one that has stood out for me is Steven May.

"He has taken his training, from what I understand, to another level."

Schwerdt said the squad's progress was on par with what he expected and said time was the key ingredient to catching up to the rest of the competition.

"The next pre-season we do will be what you consider for an experienced AFL footballer," he said.

"It's not so much the intensity of training that is different at the moment but just the overall workload week to week.

"This pre-season was a huge step up for them in regards to the work they've done.

"But we have a long way to go and next pre-season we will be doing equal to any club in the competition."

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