BULLS manager Pete Beadle says that modern day footballers come back fitter for pre-season.

The Hereford FC boss said that footballers look after themselves all year round nowadays as they search for 'beach bodies'.

The traditional pre-season running exercises have been scrapped in the Hereford camp this summer and substituted for explosive sessions, as the group gathered for their first session on Saturday.

"The lads are looking forward to coming back and we have planned four sessions before our first pre-season game, said Beadle.

"The players come back in pretty good shape so this year we are changing pre-season a little bit and looking to do more explosive sessions. We don't need to work their base fitness as that is already there.

"So pre-season is different as we won't be running for running sake. Even in the Midland League in our first season the lads came back in fantastic shape. They are all into these reality television programmes and want chiselled bodies.

"Everybody wants that beach body and you do have to do a large amount of work on the track and gym to get that so it makes them fitter. When I was a player the summer was completely about rest and you needed pre-season to be brought into shape.

"The players were excited to go back as they don't all live local so didn't see each other through the summer."

Hereford FC are preparing for their first pre-season game tonight (Tuesday) at AFC Wulfrunians