Very important points for the S&C/SS community here from very experienced players for all field sports. "You have to take your body to an uncomfortable place" Many coaches and sports scientists struggle with this and struggle with placing rest/regeneration after this session.

@DeasunO I think it’s because people look at data especially in MD data in Avgs & not maxes, medians or even modes. And then when they work back from the average MD your even training well below at actual average. People who use maxes have a lot more success on resiliency.

Great points.

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Fantastic Des. There is a culture at the minute, of teams being under prepared for worst case scenarios. Load finds weakness. Players need to be robust and resilient for the unpredictability of matches.

Another example

Apart from preseason, do they get the chance now with the amount of games? Gary talking about Monday Tuesday Wednesday pushing your body to uncomfortable limits?! They are playing a lot of midweek games now, a lot more now even to when those boys were playing.

How about some weeks where there is only one game. You can also implement with the non selected and low minute players. If you get 10 sessions in a season it will help a lot. The mind set is often not to do that session. If you give the next day off it is smarter.

Train hard, fight easy.

After the work “the rest” is easy

I loved the bit where Neville said by time match day arrives it should be the easiest part of the week, assuming he means physically because the unmeasurable match day mental difficulty added obviously makes the physical side harder too

Aston villa have got 5 games in 15 days. Where do they do the mon, Tues, weds training Neville mentions? Did any team play a high pressing style in the 90s? It's just not the same game they played 🤷