Bengaluru, May 18 (TIWN) Indian women's hockey team midfielder Monika says that the gruelling 'red sessions' -- mostly higher-intensity training sessions where the focus is on match intensity -- are helping players get into peak fitness for of the upcoming Olympic Games.

“The focus now is to keep improving on our strengths and work on the weak points. Our aim is to peak at the right time. Every player’s workload is taken into consideration and improvement is mapped accordingly," said 27-year-old Monika, who was part of the 2014 Asian Games bronze medal-winning team.  “Our awareness about each session, how it helps and what it’s for is much better now than before. Earlier, we would blindly focus what the coaches said. Now, we have the ‘red sessions’, which are mostly higher-intensity training sessions where we focus on match intensity with the idea of superseding match intensity," she said.  The Chandigarh player says that the coaching staff plans the ‘red sessions’ “week-on-week" in such a way that the team peaks at the right time.