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He got that gig in the summer of 2017. It's frightening stuff.Probably just coincidence but since Sebastiano Pochettino became head of sports science last year, the players are ‘tired’ and no longer able to perform at the level required? Yes, lots of other factors I know. Just a thought
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What happens? And can it be remedied?
Sounds like Tottenham Hotspur.For what happens google "overtraining" - but most of what you find will only be about short term consequences and strategies. If you keep pushing the boundaries with already overtrained individuals you get a non-performing, depressed and frequently sick and injured athlete who longs for the day he can quit sport.
He got that gig in the summer of 2017. It's frightening stuff.
Seeing as Jesus Perez' background is in fitness, how could they be this stupid?All the injuries say all they need to (all metabolic drainage gates and muscles, largely). The constant "Hard Work" mantra is a broken record.
Seeing as Jesus Perez' background is in fitness, how could they be this stupid?
I thought we were shite nearly all of last season. We scraped so many wins leading up the end of the calendar year-I couldn't understand how we were managing it.To be fair it's worked brilliantly, but they have never been in a 5year+ cycle, have they? Who knows why the squad wasn't cycled enough to avert this, but if you are left with a fatigue (residue) riddled squad, then you play the hand you have, not doing so on £8M a year is bizarre to say the least.
Not sure, but I suspect they know what it does, but can't reshape themselves and adapt. It's soo sad, as I loved Poch, but since February he/they have lost it (it was the break before Burnley I am certain, when he pushed them collectively too far, not won away since, no collective crowd qi to pull them through).
Madness, isn't it?
I have a friend who works with the fitness team at the club and he told me the reason we train like this and injure all our players is because we didn’t sign Zaha in 2018
Believe what you want
They should all eat pasta balls until they learn how to do it properly on the pitchDoes anyone know which diet regime Pochettino and his staff are using for the players? Don't think I have ever seen an article about it
Wonder if dad lets him have his own logon yet...
22 now, so he was at best just turned 21 and head of sports science at one of the worlds biggest sports brands...
Bless him
Does anyone know which diet regime Pochettino and his staff are using for the players? Don't think I have ever seen an article about it
I don’t know anything about Pochettino’s son and not much about sports science. But common sense tells me that the role of Head of Sports Science at a big organisation like Spurs involving highly tuned athletes where that extra 5% can make all the difference between winning/losing, staying fit/getting injured, would surely be best performed by someone with more experience. The CEO of for example Sainsburys is not taken fresh from school or university- he/she works his or her way up within the organisation or similar organisations learning from their experiences and mistakes as they go. Would Pochettino jnr have been given the role at such an early age unless it was for his father? Such nepotism is yet more evidence that the club needs a serious overhaul
No idea, but I suspect Poch himself subscribes to the yo-yo diet.Does anyone know which diet regime Pochettino and his staff are using for the players?