Training

[billycopper]

Rodwell is quoted in the latest Men's Health magazine as saying:

"I train for about 9 or 10 hours each week. About seven of those hours are spent playing football and the rest are in the gym."

Presuming the squad rest on a Sunday after a Saturday game, then it works out that they're training for about 2 hours per day of a 5 day week. Say they're in the gym for 2.5 hours each week, that knocks 30 mins off each day. So, they're doing all their fitness, ball work and tactics in 90 mins each day.

I know that they don't want to over-train but, by the time they've warmed up, that's only just over an hour of football each day. It doesn't seem like enough to me. I've heard of teams who will have a 2 hour session in the morning and then go back for more in the afternoon.

I'm wondering whether Moyes isn't giving himself enough time on the training ground to get tactics across and that's why we're seeing a lack of organisation and structure on the pitch. Does Moyes even take training or is that left to Steve Round? Martin O'Neill is apparently never seen at practice and I believe that Redknapp is hands off too, but they will ensure that their coaches get the message across.

 

[ijjysmith]

Good post.

Doesn't sound quite right does it?!

 

[paulbefc]

That's strange. Moyes has a rep for being one of the most hard working managers around.

 

[slimspek]

Could he be talking of his own personal training? No way does a footballer earn his wage with 10 hours a week.

 

[best little spaniard]

Yeah, Rodwell's always bloody out with injuries. Could be he gets lighter training, to let him recover

 

[McBain]

The way they are playing do they even train at all?

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Rednapp is hanging round other peoples training grounds

 

[Azzurri]

It's deffo his own personal training.

Relating to his gym work, I saw him at the beach a while back and he's an absolute addonis of a man.

I reckon you'd all bum him.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I suspect to be honest that there isn't much fitness work done during the season. With the players having as many games as they do, I suspect most of the physical stuff will be recovery based so that they're ready for the next match.

Does seem light though as you'd think there would be plenty of mental work that could be done to prepare for the upcoming game. You often hear of the best players having to be dragged off the training pitch because they're out there practising free kicks or whatever.

 

[Matt Damon]

Its a physiological fact that training for any more than two hours has very little benefit unless you're an extreme endurance athlete (i.e. crossing the Antarctic, mountain climbing or similar).

If he has to do additional fitness training due to not playing then that would be another hour on top of that.

Its primarily about the quality of the training done. The same for all elite athletes.

Now when it comes to tactics and other activities that is extra. i.e. massage, recovery etc.

 

[thebluefox]

The way they are playing do they even train at all?

far to much mc the ginger headed pr..k runs them all day ,there fuken shagged out
,,

 

[Del]

far to much mc the ginger headed pr..k runs them all day ,there fuken shagged out
,,

Ive heard stuff like that before about him making them run and run and run

 

[thebluefox]

Ive heard stuff like that before about him making them run and run and run

i know certain players dont like training ,but the last thing they want at this time of the year is to be running come september there fit ,just get the fuken ball out like howard used to do ,

 

[Kurt.]

i'll have a word with my mate , he's gonna be at finch farm on monday and he can put our ideas over to moyes whilst they share lunch ha ha

 

[Carl J]

wpould love to know what they do in training do they do any ball work or movement of the ball because we just don't seem to have any apart from Baines