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External Performance Staff in Football: Help or Hindrance? (opens the original)
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More football players are now building their own support teams outside the club environment.This might include strength and conditioning coaches, nutritionists, psychologists, physiotherapists, recovery specialists and technical coaches.In some cases, players are working with several external practitioners alongside the support they already receive from their club.It is not difficult to understand why this is happening.A club practitioner might be responsible for 25 or more players, while an ext
Is Strength Microdosing Actually Enough in Football? (opens the original)
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Microdosing has become increasingly popular in football.Rather than completing one or two larger gym sessions during the week, strength and power work is broken into smaller doses and distributed around pitch training.It makes sense.Football players already have technical sessions, tactical preparation, recovery, matches and travel to manage. Finding 45 to 60 minutes for a traditional strength session is not always realistic, particularly when teams are playing twice per week.But there is an imp
What Should MD-1 Actually Achieve? (opens the original)
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The day before a match is usually one of the most carefully managed sessions of the week.The logic is understandable. The main loading work has already been completed, the match is less than 24 hours away, and the last thing anyone wants is to create unnecessary fatigue.As a result, MD-1 often becomes synonymous with keeping things light. Training duration comes down, running volume is reduced and high-speed exposure is limited.This is reflected in the research. Weekly training load generally re
Are We Measuring Training Load Without Knowing What Works? (opens the original)
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Training load monitoring has become embedded within professional football.GPS systems allow practitioners to quantify almost every aspect of the training week. We can describe total distance, high-speed running, sprint distance, accelerations, decelerations and numerous other variables across each day of the microcycle.As a result, we now have a large body of research describing how football teams train.But there is an important difference between describing what teams currently do and demonstra
Should Football Players Lift After Matches? (opens the original)
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In a standard one-game week, there are usually several opportunities to expose players to strength training across the microcycle.But what happens when you play every three or four days?Recovery becomes a priority, preparation for the next match begins almost immediately, and suddenly there isn’t an obvious place to put meaningful lower-body strength work.One solution that has received increasing attention is to perform resistance training immediately after the match.At first glance, adding more
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