Guns 'n' Roses
09-18-2014, 09:10 AM
Dortmund have players that on an individual level manage to combine three things, imo:
Football technique, speed and stamina. The last part you can obtain by two means:
Heart capacity training or drugs. Let's for one moment assume they go for the first option. What is involved in heart capacity traning? Well, it's pretty much the same as cyclists do, interval training, innit? It's the easiest thing to train, all you need to do to experience a massive improvement is to run 4 times 1 km, twice a week. At a decent speed so you train your heart capacity. There's a kid in my son's track and field club who is a very capable 1500 and 800 m runner, he's 13 years old and also plays for our local elite club's boys 13 football team. His personal best are 4.25 and 2.11 respectively on these two distances. I seriously doubt that any senior players on this elite club's A-team can run faster than that on these two distances.
To me it's not logical to use drugs when it's that easy to improve the stamina. I mean, the Dortmund players, it's not like they would perform on any level in track and field is it, it's just that they're a bit more fit than the rest of the footie players.
And what I don't understand then, is, why don't more clubs prioritise typical middle distance training - not instead of but in addition to the football technique training?
Football technique, speed and stamina. The last part you can obtain by two means:
Heart capacity training or drugs. Let's for one moment assume they go for the first option. What is involved in heart capacity traning? Well, it's pretty much the same as cyclists do, interval training, innit? It's the easiest thing to train, all you need to do to experience a massive improvement is to run 4 times 1 km, twice a week. At a decent speed so you train your heart capacity. There's a kid in my son's track and field club who is a very capable 1500 and 800 m runner, he's 13 years old and also plays for our local elite club's boys 13 football team. His personal best are 4.25 and 2.11 respectively on these two distances. I seriously doubt that any senior players on this elite club's A-team can run faster than that on these two distances.
To me it's not logical to use drugs when it's that easy to improve the stamina. I mean, the Dortmund players, it's not like they would perform on any level in track and field is it, it's just that they're a bit more fit than the rest of the footie players.
And what I don't understand then, is, why don't more clubs prioritise typical middle distance training - not instead of but in addition to the football technique training?