I think it is worth adding the context that Shiel has never got through a complete pre-season before coming to Essendon.
I’m less concerned after last year when we actually weren’t shot and firing blanks at the end of the season for a change, it was just a bit unfortunate that the same number of wins and similar percentage to 2017 wasn’t enough to make the finals.
We have fallen away in the second half of the season for probably over a decade.
You don’t get fitter by training less.
Something tells me you don’t have a sports science degree.
You actually get fitter in the periods between training and training too much actually has a negative effect on fitness.
I’m not saying that Shiel was definitely overtraining, but overtraining is definitely a thing and how you manage the training loads certainly has an impact on soft tissue injuries, immunity, your mental state, and your ability to perform actually goes backwards if you overtrain.
He said theirs was more intense but more general, whilst ours was way more targeted.
But you can get fitter by training better.
Also GWS have had I would say the worst injury record in the AFL over the last two years, whether that is correlated with training too hard or just bad luck it is hard to know.
So maybe it is good that Shiel was asked to tone it down. Gotten through a full preseason by the sounds of it.
Each player is on a tailored training plan hence players appear and disappear from the track, participate in only parts of drills and mafch sims. Maybe that looks like we dont train hard.
Smith got through a full year last year after being injury prone at GWS.
I’m pretty sure Harding made those comments when he was talking to some of the training watchers at the Blitz BBQ.
Harding didn’t say this to us as far as I can remember.
ok. sorry. Must have been an article then…
Fwiw- I took a bunch of acid and went for a walk. A purple cat told me Dylan Shiel thinks we train harder than the Golden State Warriors. At least I think the cat was purple.
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Apparently if you train hard and a player gets injured its “poor management”
Where is VD these days… I enjoyed his quirkiness.
Unless you’re over training…
Seriously, must be a be line between muscle bulk and waste.
Edit - Ambrose is a freak, but not agile
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Too much training work and not enough game play makes Kyle a dull boy
Can someone please grep that to see if one of the sentences is subversive?
True, but if you train hard and don’t get injured, you aren’t training hard enough.
These are the subtle intricacies of the Blitzmind.
And if you don’t train on a mandatory player holiday then the team will continue to be mediocre for the next 15 years.