⚽🧠🫁 Defender Snapshot: Legs, Lungs and Brains. This is a snap shot of First Team Professional Women's In season conditioning work . This is also illustrated in the video which shows Arsenals (Men's) first team conditioning work.
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⚽🏃🏻➡️🔊Speed Training: Learning & Adapting from Sprinting - How to Make Team Sport Athletes Faster. I've been around athletics for a long time, I competed at a decent level across a number of events. My knowledge, skills, experience, and capability went up quite a few levels after a year as Assistant Sprint Coach.
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⚽ ⚡💡Lizzie Fluke - Daily GPS Report, Match Thresholds, Rehab & Live Dashboard. (1-6 pages)🛠️⚡Practical tools for coaches. This is a Live dashboard which shows match thresholds range from 10% - 120% in increments. You can select matches by date and by opposition.
⚽ ⚕️⚡The live dashboard also includes an example rehab (forward) session and GPS reports. This for a player with an Achilles Tendinopathy and Left Knee Lateral Repair 1cm.
Men’s and Women’s Speed Zones for Professional Football ⚽
This can help in saving time setting GPS bands, Team and individual player thresholds on your exports and live.
This can also inform you as to where your team is, by position and player. Can be used for any function, such as monitoring, testing, reporting, the list is endless.
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My Professional Women's Player Match ⚽ Team Selection Tool using Catapult GPS (Vector S7) data is coming by Friday 9th February 2024.
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This is sample data from seasons starting from 2022 and 2023 from English Professional Women’s Football. This tool emphasises the physical demands specific to Women and Girls. Please view these tools through that lens. All the variables shown in the dashboard are adjustable and flexible. Please see everything as a guide. The GPS metrics are examples of team average physical outputs for a variety of sessions. The first drill table provides drill percentage thresholds, pitch size options and gps metric variables.
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This is an overview of football game speed. I cover which factors are important for high speed running (HSR) and sprinting speed. What players and teams need for speed, training tips and what I use to make teams fast, or faster.
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All the variables shown in the dashboard can be adjusted, and are flexible. Please view everything as a guide. The GPS metrics are examples of physical outputs for a variety of sessions. The drill tables provide pitch dimension options, along with example internal and external load variables. Examples are for Rondo’s and squares, possession small, medium and large. This also includes other session drills and matches.
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Welcome to Building Strength and Power for Killer Målvakter - Goal keepers. I include training guidance, and content gathered from my time coaching Målvakter in the field of performance. You can hop to the sections you are interested in, or you can work your way through the video resources at your own pace.
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Here are two beautiful gifts, these episodes will widen your field of vision, open you to new possibilities, to re-imagine something new. Here Dr. Sarah Lewis talks about the difference between success and mastery: Mastery is also not the same as success—an event-based victory based on a peak point, a punctuated moment in time. Mastery is not merely a commitment to a goal, but to a curved line, constant pursuit.”
Part Two episode talks about the power of surrender, aesthetic force and the role of imagery in creating change.
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Two super episodes that really resonate. The idea of scarcity, that there is not enough. Scarcity mindsets pits us against one another and holds us all back. Aiko reminds us all, on why we should be seen, valued, treated with equity, and respect. Belonging and safety take time.
Brené Brown: My philosophy is, I don’t think the playground is safe if anyone’s getting beat up on it. Even if it’s not me.
It’s the psychological safety we need for innovation, for trust, for creativity, for performance. An organization is not safe until everybody’s safe.
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Delighted to be a different voice at this UKSCA Roundtable: I provided a snap shot of what I do, or try to do regarding Training Durability. Performance markers can be: Robust players, able to cope with intensity of training, matches and speed consistently without breaking down. Most Importantly keeping players fit and healthy and on the pitch, meaning full squad availability for coaches.
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In this episode of the Pacey Performance Podcast Rob pacey speaks to @DocSoph, Brian Gearity and Lorena Torres about the barriers encountered by females in strength & conditioning / Performance Sport.
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Hops develop hip projection, cyclic leg action, balance & postural stability of using one and two feet. Balanced footballers are able to move better on the pitch, for example in 1v1 situations and execute explosive, reactive actions on and off the ball. Also performing explosive actions with equal force.
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This information is gathered from some of the best practicing specialists, leading scientists and researchers in the field of performance, injury and tendinopathy rehabilitation.
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I will be adding more information on fast v slow twitch dominant muscle fibre types and what you can do to maintain and improve these fibres. What to do if you change your fast twitch to slow i.e by overcooking yourself by too much hard training.
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We can change our 'emotional brain' = instincts & our 'logical brain' = thoughts, by changing the way we think and what we do. Nothing is fixed, if we put our minds to it we can achieve no matter how big or small.
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Heat affects neuro-muscular function. If you get really hot you bake from the outside in. Force generating capacity decreases so teams need strategies to deal with heat. Here you see water or cooling breaks implemented at the FIFA WWC 2019
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We can only produce force if our central nervous system drives it. If the brain cannot, then our ability to activate muscles are affected. The perception of exercise is harder, i.e. nothing left in the tank. If training concurrently i would try to minimise fatigue.
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Super info on pain, the brain, mechanisms, software & experiences. Brilliant stuff! from Professor Irene Tracey. Great analogies used, such as pain is caused by a volume knob in the brain stuck on ‘max’ Really interesting to hear about the underpinning scientific evidence, such as brain imaging scans that show cognitive behavioral therapy works (CBT).
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