Located alongside the cardio equipment and fifteen metres in length – the trampoline can pave the road to recovery for many Carlton players. 

Whilst it may not be the most high-tech apparatus that you will come across at Visy Park, never underestimate the benefits that it can provide. 

The Carlton Football Club's Rehabilitation Coach, Mark Homewood, says the trampoline's ability to give an alternative surface to re-train movement on, can be crucial to recovery. 

"We use the trampoline pretty extensively when a player is returning from injury." 

Similar to other cardio-based workouts, it's important that trampolining isn't overdone. 

"It's fairly high-intensity, so you have to be careful. Particularly if players have any jump and landing issues."

There are a variety of different jumps, depending on the intensity of the workout and the particular injury that a player may have sustained. 

"The basic stuff is a double-leg-jump, single-leg-jump and making sure that they land with good technique."

As Homewood explains, the trampoline is best used in minimising impacts on the joints. 

"If you were to mimic these jumps on hard surfaces, then there would be a lot of forced stress on all the major joints."

"By using the trampoline, it means we can do some fairly high intensity jumping without having to load up the joint surfaces."

Whilst they boys may have a few tricks up their sleeve, Homewood is strict when it comes to clowning around. 

"Definitely no summersaults!"