Fitness and conditioning

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Antonio Gomez

Pre-match warm-up

This pre-mach warm-up helps us include different activities like mobility, active stretching, passing awareness practice, a possession game, patterns of play and sprints.

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Tony Daley

Matchday recovery session

It is important for players to ensure their bodies recover well from the rigours of matchday, so this session is designed as a recovery programme to be conducted no more than 24 hours after the game.

Javi Gracia

Post-match training

This is a session we actually ran after a pre-season game at Valencia this year. For the players that played more than 60 minutes of the game, their t...

Kevin Nicholson

Pre-season fitness plan

This is a pre-season fitness plan that gets players back into shape in time for the start of the new season. It uses a ball in each practice and helps...

Willie Kirk

Match day preparation

This session is designed to be run as match preparation on Match Day -1 and it is our last training session before a game. By the end of the session w...

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Uwe Rösler

Pre-season conditioning

This session is about developing the conditioning of players throughout pre-season and into the new campaign, by using a strong technical passing appr...

Richie Barker

Pre-season practice

This session is perfect as a pre-season practice because it gets players working on fitness and technique, the two elements that deteriorate quickest ...

Damian Roden

Dynamic passing warm-up

This session begins with muscle activation and mobility, moving into a dynamic warm-up that takes in flexibility, movement and coordination. Activatio...

David Artell

Small-sided fitness game

This is a football-specific fitness session in the format of a small-sided game, although it can be used to target other areas of development, such as...

Jon Whitney

One-to-one fitness session

The session is designed to be delivered by a coach on a one-to-one basis and all exercises are based on the movement patterns and physiological demand...

Eric Steele

Keeper match day warm-up

This session is designed to assist goalkeeping coaches and keepers, at all levels. It uses a keeper, a sub keeper and a goalkeeping coach. The warm...

Chris Coleman

Speed preparation

This session is varied in terms of its technical and tactical focus but the main theme is speed preparation with short, sharp drills to emphasise the ...

Sam Allardyce

Physical and technical drill

This is a high intensity football-specific conditioning drill, designed to challenge players both technically and physically. Technical skills develop...