2km.
Notwithstanding that they’ve only been doing the 2km for a few years I believe, thus it would be comparatively easier to make significant gains in the time, it’s still pretty impressive that he could knock 20sec off. Especially for a guy who’s never been an elite endurance athlete.
He did a fair job of pumping up Murphy, clearly he’s been very well received internally.
We won’t see the benefits of his regime probably for another 1-2 years. He’s started behind the 8-ball with all the guys who have required post-season surgery and have been on modified programs. He can’t carry the can for that. But what he can do is put the program in place that will serve us well for 2021 and beyond.
Great news
Hopefully he can get us running the season out better this year than we have in the past, plus hopefully he’s got influence in ensuring we don’t play unfit guys.
So even if we don’t start on an even keel, if he can do these things this year it’s a good start
I’m pretty circumspect around this stuff. Pretty sure you could find a cut and paste from when Crow started etc etc…
But hopefully it’s going well and he’s making a difference, even if it’s only small.
Murphy is our savior…until we get our first hamstring injury!
This bloke seems more hands on with the players compared to Crow I like that.
Whats facinating for me is that Ambrose has some competition out the front with Ham and Clarke. If Ham can become the next stanton offering options through the middle of the ground, it will help the teams overall work rate as they may not have to chase as much if we keep possession of the ball.
Agreed, what about
and
Francis says hi?
Though he had a miracle recovery.
It’s hardly a surprise stringer ran a pb in the 2k. Your probably gonna run pb’s each year for a while with more pre seasons.
wasnt just a pb though he beat his pb by 20 seconds. thats huge.
did this guy teach rioli how to run properly?
Mourn surfee
Really poor interview, but is a guy I’d like to listen to in an in depth 2-3 podcast format. Burgess clearly has allot of knowledge and experience and I bet stories to go with it.
There are some really good ones from Firas Zahabi who I think has a really interesting take on preparation. Essentially he runs it as a numbers game, the more hours he can train you the better, noting he has to do it psychologically as well.
So for him, soreness, injury prevention and maximising training time are priorities and he runs a much different program to most in that sector. Lots of short sharp sessions to build up to where you feel great and have a high heart rate then shuts it down, rest, do it again a few hours later. He talks about it in total training time so if in a 6 day week you do 1x3hr monster sessions per day that’s 18hr training, but being huge you would loose some to soreness or be poor training in some from fatigue thus reducing the quality.
He says he would rather do 3x1.5hr sessions per day giving you 27hrs training in the week. He says he can tailor session better to maximise impact, always have the athlete feeling great and loss pain and injury. He said it also allows him to focus on skills and technique better. He also says guys can build up to that and maintain it easily where as the monster sessions guys really struggle to keep up the pace.
He also noted that psychologically going to the well and knowing you can push yourself is a big part so you still have the monster sessions but they are limited for mental training not physical conditioning and skills training.
I found his view interesting.
Plus how unfit we have been for the past few seasons
“hardest pre-season ever”
“best pre-season ever”
“best shape ever”
MATE.
‘3 a days’ still sounds brutal! Interesting though,is there a notable difference in where he works performance?
We need to hear from Shiel if we’re training as hard as GWS this pre-season yet
Honestly anything is better than the shape we were in last year. We looked a million miles off it in the pre-season games, were getting thrashed for k’s run all season and it never got better. We have talent on the list but working hard and running is a big downfall.