Sheffield United season so far: A quick brain dump. The wheels came off early for Selles, if they were ever even on. The gap between chances created (xG) and allowed (xGA) had widened dramatically by a month into the season. Wilder’s return saw that gap keep getting wider, but then the international break really helped, […]
How to discover your aerobic threshold Alan Partridge famously warned, “Stop getting Bond wrong!” I haven’t done that, but I have been getting zone 2 wrong. That’s because I didn’t know where it was. Last week I posted this as a brain dump of things I’d been thinking and talking about recently. It’s based around […]
What are zone 2, zone 4 etc? Training zones correspond to a percentage of your maximum heart rate (and/ or power in cycling but that’s another subject). At different levels of exercise intensity your body uses different energy sources and different muscle fibres and can continue for varying lengths of time before failure, also depending […]
What is lactate? Lactate builds up in your body as exercise intensity increases. It’s actually an energy source generated when you use fast-twitch muscle fibres. Processing it is your body using it as an energy source. If you’ve ever played football and got to 30, 40 mins in and you feel heavy and just not […]
I’ve long thought you don’t necessarily get good at things by just doing those things. I mean, for example, no musician would expect to play gigs by only ever playing gigs. Things involving motor skills need a lot of practice, in particular using repetition, focussing on difficult sections etc. Likewise in football, I don’t think […]
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