"Freshness wins titles". This is a phrase I heard Andy Barr say recently. Andy, a movement and biomechanics consultant, was a key driving force behind the recent NBA success the New York Knicks have had. The Knicks had a habit of coming back from losing situations to win,
My colleague Peter Loffeld and I had been talking for some time about a hypothesis. Whilst I am a football coach with years of knowledge of football periodisation, Peter has an expertise in physiotherapy, injury rehab and return to play. We wondered if we could help semi pro players remotely
Now the season is done for most players, we now await for the annual surge of pre pre season social media posts, that mostly describe players doing 5 km runs and an overload of isolated (often non contextual) basic action exercises, notably with 1 to 1 coaches. For an explanation
In part one, I wrote about some observations I had made watching some teams warm up pre match. I also spoke about some references regarding what is a football action and what is a basic action. You can read that article here ... Click here to read the article I have
To begin this article, first we need some references in place so we can then objectively evaluate some recent pre match warm ups I have seen. In every football match (and training) there are thousands of football actions performed, often many at the same time. But how can we define
This article records a coaching process rather than a fixed conclusion: an initial hypothesis based on observed patterns, an evaluation of where the hypothesis was correct and where it was incomplete, then an updated hypothesis to carry into the next game. The hypothesis on Gillingham was based on recent games