Well, first we’ll need to come to the agreement that soccer is an alactic-aerobic dominant sport. Meaning that the typical movement profile within a match involves a player making, on average, a 20-meter sprint every 30-90sec over the course of a 90-minute match. Depending on the position, players will make approximately 50-80 sprints in the game, and yet cover 10-14km (check research by Thomas Reilly, Jens Bangsbo, or Raymond Verheijen for more specifics). So, we could then assume that most intense actions are short enough that the energy required can be fulfilled by the alactic system, and the resting intervals should be enough time that the oxidative system aids the replenishment of ATP for the alactic system. So, if I come to this conclusion about the sport of soccer, then what role would anaerobic (lactic) intervals have within my program? Why would I want to train my system to create large amounts of lactic energy?
Optimum Sports Performance Interviews Sounders Training Dave Tenney
An immense amount of detail into the WHYS behind his training philosophy. If you get geeky about anything, this will make sense to you.
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What an amazing article
great look into high-level althletics. A couple of the most interesting parts for Sounder fans:
We recently had a high draft pick player who could do 300yd shuttles the entire day, and not fatigue. But he never seemed like he could be explosive. At the same time, we had an older European ex-World Cup player, who was heavily reliant on his speed for his style of play. When we would do plyos, this older European player would be exhausted after doing eight high hurdle jumps. His work was visibly maximal. This college players would jump over the
eight hurdles (not visibly maximal), jog back and be ready to do it again. I tried and tried to get him to do things more explosively, but it seemed to be difficult to change. Slowly, I came to the realization that with our over reliance on HIIT work, we may be creating a culture of athletes who can do things at 90% speed all day, but can’t do things maximally when they need to.
Zakuani and Ljungberg?
Athletes who become more sympathetically dominant eventually have a significantly higher risk of muscle injury over time, per my observations this year. It’s actually been possible to predict most of our muscle injuries this year through OmegaWave.
An interesting quote about an injury-filled year (though I don’t think most were muscle injuries).
You think that Zakuani isn't explosive?
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I don't personally think that, but who else could that be?
Only 1 high draft pick in Sounders history.
Estrada
High pick could just mean first round
Or could high mean one of first two rounds?
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Fair enough
I guess I wouldn’t consider any first rounder a ‘high’ pick, but I suppose Tenney wasn’t thinking all that hard about his descriptions, just the science.
I still don't see first 2 rounds as high
Once you’re out of the first round, no one calls you a high draft pick.
Exercise training is getting very smart.
The sooner that the coaches of old are replaced by those schooled in training athletes for peak performance, the better the players will be. I read in Soccernomics that AC Milan has biomechanics experts who can predict injury in players, simply by how they jump.
With my undergrad exercise science background, I learned that most coaches train their players sub-optimally. Those athletes who work with trainers who are very keen on the best practices are often ready for matches, healthy more often, and able to perform throughout a match.
My first experience with this was, when I was back in college and doing lifting workouts daily, running daily, and was its great physical condition. A female in my exercise prescription class had us do a yoga like stretching/aerobic workout, and I couldn’t do it (nor could the football players in my class, in fact the only male able to complete the workout was a a basketball player). It wasn’t that I couldn’t do it, but I was exhausted quickly.
Looks like Tenney is on this “new age” path an as long as he is in control of the exercise program we have an advantage over other clubs..
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