Player's Fitness

[RobertT]

both sloth and gluttony can be partaken within the confines of a pub, I'm in.  Get the players down the Toot and Whistle, buying rounds can replace set piece drills, requiring focus of the mind to ensure no spillage of multiple pints, the constant loo breaks should provide sufficient physical exercise, and the art of getting served quickly (might be best to move to the Dockle Farmhouse for this on) should ensure the players learn about the need for incisive movement.

[Bushey Boy]

Fuck me I must be a class player by now! Quality Rob

[Ralphy]

Lazy fuckers.

Even i run 6 miles a day.

[lebowski]

ralphy for fitness coach, anyone?

[DiV]

ralphy for fitness coach, anyone?

not really, getting them to run for 6 miles every day would completely and utter fuck the players up good and proper and they'd be knackered after 10 minutes.

Playing football isnt like running a marathon, keeping at a steady pace for 90 minutes wont do anything. Its all about sprinting stop, start, stop, start, stop, start.

If you did alot of long distance running you're body and legs get condition to longevity and a steady pace, as soon as you start to spring you're knackered.

One year I tried to get fitter, ran 4 miles everyday for a good few months, got to playing football and didnt feel half as fit as I did before.

Plus, I dont want Ralphy as fitness coach because we'd seen 'Jerel Ifil blood soaked nipple stained training top' for sale on the official site!!!

[lebowski]

dv for fitness coach, anyone?

[Bushey Boy]

Is it fuck, you ever seen him play, most quiet player on the pitch by a long shot.

[Ralphy]

I agree DV, what puzzles me is why long distance running doesn't help football.

Surely giving your lungs a good pounding, raising your heart rate and building leg muscle should help.

How do these players keep the weight off if they don't do much cardio work ?

[jayohaitchenn]

two different kinds of muscle. I watched a documentary about it. Sprinters tend to have bulkier legs and long distance runners are quite slender in comparision. It is possible to be quite good at both with training but you basically have to choose.

This is why Linford Christie never ran long distance or why PissPants Paula wouldn't win the 100m.

[Ralphy]

I'm crap at sprinting but can run 10 km easy so that means i should have slender legs right?

This formula doesn't work.

[mattboyslim]

It doesn't include fat legs Ralph...

 

[Ralphy]

Their solid as fuck !

 

[DiV]

Is it fuck, you ever seen him play, most quiet player on the pitch by a long shot.

I can be a loud mouth....although last time I played with you lot I was pretty ill.

Hell, I even shouted at Adie Williams to sort the tactics out when I was playing at the CG!!

[DiV]

I agree DV, what puzzles me is why long distance running doesn't help football.

Surely giving your lungs a good pounding, raising your heart rate and building leg muscle should help.

How do these players keep the weight off if they don't do much cardio work ?

I dont know the exact science, but your leg muscles just get conditioned to one or the other, if you do alot of one.

The muscles get built slightly differently or something.

[Simon Pieman]

Think it must be something to do with fast twitch and slow twitch muscle fibres. I can't really remember exactly but I think fast twitch are for endurance and slow for power. Could be the other way round I guess.