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Interview with Man Utd coaches regarding football tips
Raise your game: Drinking [12 Dec @ 11:32am]
Man Utds Trevor Lea gave us tips for drinking like the pro’s. “Fluid intake is so important. It can be the easiest thing to get wrong, but its also one of the easiest things to correct. The fluid you lose through sweating essentially comes out the blood. If you don’t replace lost fluid, the blood turns thick & syrup like.” “The problem with that is the heart has to try & pump this viscous blood around the body, but it does so at a slower rate & does not deliver the oxygen that we need. This can make you feel very lethargic & have heavy legs. It also isn’t able to wash out the waste products as it should do or carry the lactic acids away. Which, when it builds up, can cause cramp.” “Its difficult to put a figure on the number of litres you need on a daily basis, so you need to learn how to read the signs your body gives you. Those symptoms could include dry mouth, thirst, headache, general tiredness & a low urine output. Taking fluids before & after you’ve trained & played matches will help to get your blood volume back up & ensures it is the correct consistency. That helps delivery of new nutrients into your muscles so they recover.” “My advise to an amateur player is to ensure their fluid intake is at optimum level. The weather, temperature & humidity within the atmosphere are very important. You need to look at how much fluid you’ve lost through exercise sessions & make sure your body doesn’t get dehydrated.”
Raise your game: Fitness [12 Dec @ 11:32am]
Man Utds first team coach, Tony Strudwick gives his tips on general fitness. Q1: What’s the best way for a footballer to improve fitness levels? “First & foremost, you need to identify how much time you can devote to working on fitness. We’re very lucky here at United because we get at least 2 – 3 hours per day, per player. Over the course of a week that can add up to anything between 12 – 20 hours work. For an amateur player it’s going to be slightly different, so you need to use your time very effectively. That’s the key message & why planning is so important. You can’t just go out there & decide to do certain drills there & then. There needs to be some kind of structure to your session – its about quality rather than quantity.” Q2: Assuming training time is limited, what’s the most effective exercise? “If you can only do two or three sessions a week they could be aerobic endurance sessions. That doesn’t mean necessarily mean you have to do lots & lots of running; you can work on your endurance by playing small-sided game, five vs. five in blocks of five to 10 minutes. That will help you build up a really good aerobic base. If you can manage to do two or three sessions like that in a week, that should be sufficient to not only build up your aerobic endurance but also maintain it. You can do the same amount of blocks on a treadmill if you want. It’s important to build up an aerobic base before you progress onto any repeated sprint work. In addition to endurance work, short, sharp fitness drills help keep your body stimulated, which fire up your speed mechanisms & also keep your mind bright.” Q3: What exercises would you choose if you took one session with an amateur? “I’d do a warm with some stretches. Id then do 10 –15 minutes of sprints, probably six repetitions of three sprints over 10 – 15 metres. I’d then go into aerobic stuff, before finishing with a recovery stretching session.” Q4: Aside from work with the ball, what other exercise can help give you the edge? “Resistance work is another aspect you should look at. Doing weights will increase your strength & a stronger athlete can obviously run further, kick the ball further & withstand more forces. So its important to get your resistance work in as-well.” Q5: Any other tips? “The ‘FIT’ principle is something we refer to a lot. ‘F’ stands for frequency, how often a person exercises. ‘I’ stands for intensity, how hard a person exercises. ‘T’ stands for type of training or specificity. It’s a formula that gives individuals guidelines to follow to build up a good fitness programme.”
Raise your game: skills [12 Dec @ 11:32am]
Man Utds Technical skills coach rene Meulensteem talks about tips to improve your skills; “If your trying to teach someone how to play piano, and you spend 50minutes of an hour-long lesson talking him through the sheet music, then his not going to learn. He needs to play. If you get on with things and play football, then everybody gets exposed technically to knocking the ball about.” “You need to have good basic skills & the way to build that is with plenty of contact with the ball. You need to be able to pass the ball over shorter distances, pass the ball one-touch, receive the ball on the turn, pass over longer distances, practise kicking the ball with both feet & maybe use the outside of both feet where possible. Not many players can do that.” “The wider the range of skills you practise, the better you will become. Footballers can’t do without the ability to create something under pressure, so there is an added incentive in modern football to be unpredictable.” “You shouldn’t have queues of players waiting to work with the ball. You might have a line of players taking shots at a keeper one at a time. At any one time then you’ll have one player taking a shot. But 10 –15 players waiting in a line doing nothing – that’s a problem. If you give every player a ball then they can practise, or at least share a ball between two players.” “In practise games where the numbers are too high, count the number of times each player touches the ball. In a 15 – 20 minute game, you should get three to four touches. Playing games of four vs. four ensures far more touches & contact with the ball. Four vs. four is the smallest side game, which still allows you to stick to the tactical principles of having enough width & depth to manipulate the opposition. Any less than that compromises those. All variations need to provide the players with a challenge: to come up with certain solutions to problems that arise now, & will face in game situations.”
Raise your game: Training [12 Dec @ 11:32am]
This was an interview with Manchester united assistant manger - Mike Phelan on Training tips: Q1: What are your tips for anyone looking to improve their game? “Always have a ball at your feet. You’d be surprised how much your game can develop through having plenty of contact with the ball. It improves concentration & even your fitness levels, because working with the ball is as much hard work as without it” Q2: What’s the best way to approach training? “The most important parts are being organised, & making things fun & entertaining. The individual players must want to turn up & be part of the whole thing, & they will if they’re improving their game & themselves.” Q3: How much of a session should be devoted to fitness work? “You shouldn’t necessarily concentrate too much on the fitness sides of things because it’s impossible to improve that in one session. So just be organised, set them out & get your point across of what you want them to do, & have fun.” Q4; When working with a squad, how should numbers be divided up? “If there’s more than one player training, then work in pairs of fours, small numbers to maximise contact with the ball. If you’re working on your own, that’s not a problem because you’ll always have the ball at your feet. The most important thing is to train with the ball & master the skills that you can do, keep improving. A key thing to work on is keeping your head up rather than looking at the ball all the time. The ball never moves from your feet when you look up, just try to make sure that you get your head up & look all around you.” Q5: What are the best drills to work on? “The main things you have to master are the basic skills. That means passing, control with all parts of your body, heading & volleying. Side foot the ball; bend it with the inside & outside of the foot. The key is to practise them regularly, because that’s how you’ll improve.”
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