bengaluru members of the indian womens hockey team are utilising the forced break from the sport to introspect on their own game and identify the areas that require improvement says midfielder sushila chanuthe 24member core probables for the olympic games are currently stationed at the sai centre here where they continue to focus on individual fitness routine and workout in isolationthough hockey training is suspended we watch a lot of our previous match videos as well as opponent teams videos to analyse their game said chanu who had led the side at the rio olympicswe use a software to do this and i feel this is the best time to introspect on our own game to understand which areas need improvement she addedleaving behind the disappointment of the tokyo games being postponed the players hope they can carry forward the momentum they have built in the past one yeari think the disappointment over tokyo olympics postponement is behind uswe collectively felt that this was best case scenario for us as we have been improving steadily over the past two years and we believe we can build on this rhythm in the coming months chanu saidspeaking of their daily schedule the 28yearold said the focus is on maintaining physical fitnessour scientific advisor wayne lombard has given us specific workout charts which we need to followthe focus right now is to maintain our fitness levels and workouts vary from individual distance running to bodyweight training workouts using stretchchords and some weights we have available in our roomslast week the indian womens hockey team launched a fun fitness challenge to raise funds for the migrant labourers whose families have been affected by the nationwide lockdown to combat the covid19 pandemicin four days the team has raised over rs 7 lakh and crowd funding will continue till may 3 when the lockdown endsit is very encouraging to see so many people support the indian womens hockey teams goal of feeding 1000 people who have been affected by the lockdown due to covid19 pandemic chanu saidwe have received so much love and support from the people of this country towards our quest for success in hockey and the team felt this was the time to step up and do something for the peoplechanu had challenged people including former teammates poonam rani and lily chanu mayengbam to do 20 pushups and 20 dipsin a subsequent team challenge to do vsit for 2mins chanu challenged statemates from the indian mens hockey team kothajit singh and chinglensana singhshe also challenged boxer sarita devi to take up the challenge and donate rs100 towards crowd fundingwe are delighted that people are not just donating for the cause but they are also participating in the fitness challengeit is very important to remain physically active and the workouts we have designed throughout this challenge are not very difficult and can be done indoors she said