Top Five Kit Bag Essentials
Top 5 kit bag essentials for athletes
- Drink – Add electrolytes and possibly carbohydrates if you have a prolonged/intense session
- Snack – easily digestible carbohydrate-based snack for just before or during exercise – e.g. banana, apple, high-quality energy bar
- Foam roller and small massage ball/hockey ball for self manual therapy
- Mini-bands/resistance bands – very useful for warm-up periods, assisting stretches and lighter prehab work
- Training diary – record what you do in each session, whether that’s manually or digitally on a phone, monitor your progress, what worked? What didn’t work? How did it feel?