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July 23, 2019 by Peter in Training, Testing, Monitoring.

Conditioning training in football: Shuttles, laps, or small-side games?

Very often I hear that conditioning training in football ( and other sport games) should be “game-specific” thus it is stupid for a player to run laps as this do track-and-field athletes. Coaches have to develop player’s endurance with the small-side games (SSG) or, if the more structured workload is

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November 20, 2018 by Peter in Training, Testing, Monitoring.

Strength and conditioning training in German ice-hockey team.

Recently I have visited Augsburg in Germany and used this opportunity to improve my knowledge about sports science support and strength and conditioning practice in high-level sport. Augsburg has a team in German ice-hockey premier division — Augsburger Panther. The team is currently on a 5-th place in the championship.

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  • Critical flaw in the Critical Power concept.
  • Testing an individual athlete: Stats may be your friend, coach.
  • Every breath you take: Is it helpful to have breathing data in your sports watch?
  • Some people call it “War” when in fact it’s just a game. Others call this “Journey” while playing with Death.
  • Recovery after the game: do we really understand what we are doing?
  • Fitness testing in sport games. Player performed badly in test: Then what?
  • Gold standard tests for anaerobic capacity: are they so precious?
  • Listen to your heart…But what do you really want to know?
  • Water replacement strategy? Leave it to Nature.
  • Creativity and decision making in sport: Build a house that can withstand any storm.
  • Early or late specialisation? High-performance perspective.
  • Training endurance for football: is it enough just to play football?
  • Why do we get tired playing football?
  • Stress in Sport: Can we break “a vicious circle”?
  • Changing direction in sport games: are cones exercises really useful?
  • Implicit Learning: Create an exercise that will do the talking for you.
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