new delhi tokyo olympicbound indian archery teams physiotherapist dr arvind yadav has stressed on the importance of a phased approach to training post lockdown as the countrys leading men and women recurve archers return to the range after the covid 19forced break yadav informed that the archers would require at least 46 weeks of sustained training to get back to the precovid match fitnessthe national camp for recurve archers commenced at the army sports institute in pune from august 25 the camp was made up of eight male and as many female archers this will be the first time in seven years that the women archers will be staying inside the army facility the exception has been made keeping the pandemic in mind and the wellbeing of female archersarchery activities in india were suspended in march when the complete lockdown was announced by the government however after the resumption of the sporting activities following relaxation in the lockdown curbs the archerys national coaching camp started from august 25 at the asi pune the archers will return to the training after completing their mandatory 14day quarantine period we have to make sure to put some rope around the athletes and make them understand that they cant go really hard on themselves they need to have all those muscles activated before undertaking any activity yadav told toithey need to build up and get their bodies in tune with the requirements of the training its about gradual progression and good warmups and thats something we will be emphasising as the training resumes it will be challenging for archers to immediately find their rhythm after the lockdown and they will require at least 46 weeks to get back to match fitness informed yadav a sports authority of india saiempaneled physiotherapistaccording to physio it will be important for the support staff to set smaller goals for the archers and keep progressing each day everything has to be done progressively for instance we cant force the archers straight out of the block we have to do it in a phased manner it was satisfactory to see that they were performing routine fitness work and short distance shooting even during the lockdown we had always been communicating with them so if there were problems we had been rectifying them overall things look extremely good to me and i am happy with their fitness level after reporting to the camp the sessions will be held in accordance with the guidelines set out by the sai and the local government and approved by the indian ministry of health science national institute of communicable diseases nicd stated yadav who also heads the medical department at bengaluru bulls kabaddi team in the pro kabaddi league pkl