Popular Post Lexis Posted February 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 23, 2020 I think SI should definitely get in touch with some physical conditioning experts. The way condition, match fitness and general physical attributes are implemented from a growth perspective is totally flawed. For instance, Stamina should be a much more volatile attribute. Do a bad training camp at the beginning of the year, with not enough physical training load or bad quality coaches, your should likely have a poor stamina at the beginning of the season. Can you address that mid season? Yes, by getting quality coaches, but loading your players with physical training in the middle of the season may be disastrous considering the match frequency. Better wait for January camp? This is something that is much more obvious with little teams, who may not always have top fitness coaches and facilities, rather than with big teams where they always address all the issues. You did a proper pre-season with top quality fitness coaches and sufficient physical loading? Good. Players have a good stamina and match fitness and you always have to maintain that for the rest of the season. Strength and balance are also something that can change quite considerably with proper or improper training camps. Injury proneness should definitely be influenced a little bit by the quality of the physio s and fitness trainers. Good physical conditioning trainers always do prehab work with their players which can dramatically reduce injury rate. Again, don't look at top teams. They always do things close to perfectly and you won't spot differences. Look at bad teams. Acceleration and Pace likely less volatile to pre-season. Then again, consider how they work in match. Why are players sprinting and running with 60% condition the same way they do at 99? Top speed should decrease. Acceleration should decrease. How much they maintain sprint should decrease. Walking / jogging time should increase while sprinting time should decrease. We can't all play like liverpool with stamina 12 players. You want a liverpool-like team? Invest heavily in physical training in your pre-season, load the players up accordingly and you might do it. I've seen teams that, with heavy pre-season physical loading, they dramatically increased the stamina and performed to a very high levels. The same players, given a managerial change and coaches change, dramatically changed their physical output. Stamina is a very volatile attribute and very pre-season dependant. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEnganche Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Totally agree. At the minute, Stamina acts like a second Natural Fitness attribute. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexis Posted February 28, 2020 Author Share Posted February 28, 2020 I am hoping they can atleast acknowledge this and keep it in their radar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
destmez Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 exellent suggestion Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hovis Dexter Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 Sounds very sensible Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
felipe_bonfim Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 Makes perfect sense. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SI Staff Luke Hume Posted February 5, 2021 SI Staff Share Posted February 5, 2021 Reviewed so locked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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