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I’ll walk you through a six-session plan I use with teenage centres to build reliable contact technique and sharper in-game decision-making. The...
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scouts, coaches and part-time analysts ask me this all the time: can a sub-£300 GPS unit realistically replicate the sprint outputs you get from a...
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I first started using the Polar H10 chest strap with a semi-pro rugby side three seasons ago when I realised GPS load data alone wasn’t telling the...
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I spend a lot of time working with players and teams that face the same problem you do: a jam-packed fixture schedule and no licence to add extra gym...
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I spend a lot of my coaching week testing small margins — the run that attracts a defender, the millimetre of angle on a cross, the timing of a...
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I remember a wide midfielder I worked with last season — electric on the flank, brilliant at beating his full-back, but invisible when the ball...
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When I help grassroots teams pick equipment, one of the most common requests is: “Which cheap GPS units actually give reliable sprint data?”...
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I want to share a straightforward, evidence-informed 10-session plyometric plan designed to shave about 0.05 seconds off a 10m sprint for youth...
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I’ve spent seasons on muddy pitches coaching strikers who are hungry to score but frustrated by an inability to finish the chances they create....
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I wanted to test a question that comes up in coaching conversations all the time: can a concentrated seven-day microcycle of overload sprint drills...
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