Footy training for Gippsland players
Gippsland stretches from the edge of Melbourne to the New South Wales border, and Gippsland Power pick their lists from all of it. Distance means most of the physical work happens away from the group — on your own, in your own time.
One month free, then A$24.99/month. Cancel any time. iPhone and iPad.
Gippsland Power are the Talent League club for the Gippsland region. Community footy is run by AFL Gippsland across leagues including the Gippsland League, Mid Gippsland, North Gippsland, East Gippsland, Ellinbank & District and West Gippsland, with junior competitions in central, east and west Gippsland.
Which club your address belongs to
Gippsland Power run boys’ and girls’ Talent League programs for talented juniors across Gippsland.
- Gippsland Power
- The Talent League club for the Gippsland region.
The western edge of Gippsland borders the Dandenong Stingrays’ south-east. The club can confirm which program applies to your address.
The competitions
- Gippsland League
- Under AFL Gippsland.
- Mid Gippsland, North Gippsland and East Gippsland leagues
- Under AFL Gippsland.
- Ellinbank & District FNL and West Gippsland FNC
- Under AFL Gippsland.
- Omeo & District FNL
- Under AFL Gippsland.
- Central, East and West Gippsland junior competitions
- Junior football under AFL Gippsland.
Set it up for Gippsland
Four things, in the order the app asks them. None of them needs a coach.
Choose footy, then your team nights
Onboarding asks “When do you train with your team?” Pick your club nights — Gippsland League or wherever you play — and your gym and conditioning are scheduled around them, lighter the day after a big one. Tell it your equipment and any niggles and every exercise is fitted to both.
Match the program to your league’s start
If your league starts later than March, set your season phase yourself in the app and stay in pre-season a little longer. The phase lives in Program → Your year.
Know your numbers on day one
Your first testing session is ready immediately: 2km time trial, Bench press 1RM, Max pull-ups, Trap-bar deadlift 1RM, Running vertical jump. It is re-run every 8 weeks, and the results re-price your training weights and conditioning paces.
Put your suburb on the board
In Social → Town, set where you train. Your minutes count toward that town’s weekly conditioning and strength top-10 boards — only the town is kept, never your location.
What you start with, by the month you join
Every block is four weeks — three building, one deload — so a free month is one complete block.
The footy year in Gippsland
- October
- Off-season. Rest, then rebuild general strength.
- November – February
- Pre-season. Aerobic base, then strength, then power.
- Late March
- Talent League begins.
- April – September
- Community season. Volume comes down, weights hold.
Wet winters, long drives
Gippsland winters are cold and wet, and the grounds get heavy — which makes a proper warm-up and lower-body strength matter more. The bigger constraint is usually distance: training has to fit around travel, so a program that adapts to the days you actually have is the difference between a plan and a wish.
Coaching a side in Gippsland?
A club licence is A$8 per player, per month (minimum 5), and every player on it gets full Train Smart membership at no cost to them. You write the block once, it lands in each player’s app, and the console shows who actually did it.
Footy in Gippsland: questions
Which Talent League club covers Gippsland?
What footy leagues are in Gippsland?
Where these facts come from
Checked September 2026. Zones, grades and dates change — if something here is out of date, the governing body is right and we are wrong.
Spotted an error? Tell us and we will fix it.
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Pick footy, tell it your team nights, and your first block and testing session are ready before you leave the car park.
One month free, then A$24.99/month. Cancel any time. iPhone and iPad.