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Pre-season under Klopp

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Gary25

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I'm not for one minute suggesting he should be going easy on mega rich, pampered footballers and his Pre-season methods at Dortmund didn't do him too badly, but is anyone else concerned these double/triple training sessions he seems intent on implementing might be too much for the players? In what is always a demanding Premier League season.

We seen how the United players performed following gruelling Pre-season training under Moyes. Again, I'm not doubting Klopp he knows a lot more than I do, but just wondering what everyone else thinks.
 
Reasonable question to ask IMO.

I'd imagine gegenpressing makes heavy demands on player fitness so, on the assumption that Klopp's going to stick with it, there probably isn't much choice but to work the squad very hard. Rodgers' approach was similarly demanding on fitness and I always felt that was why, during his time, we invariably performed better in the second half of the season after the players had acclimatised. What none of us knows yet is how well the current squad will take to the new regime.
 
It will be interesting to see how the training changes, along with the new nutrition plans, work out, because something's obviously not been right in recent pre-seasons. I don't just mean with injuries, but also with the fact that we've tended to start very sluggishly, fading quite significantly in the second half of games, between August and about November. I've no idea what will happen, but it's surely right that something new is being tried.
 
Nah. No real concern from me. I'm sure he knows what's required to play his football. We don't have as many games next season which will help.
 
The important part is to allow for sufficient recovery after a period of over-extension.

The body adapts only when significant demand has been placed on. So, if he wants them to hold up across a season of gegenpressing, he needs to prepare them for that exertion early and then allow sufficient recovery to impose the desired adaptation. Given sufficient time and resources, superrecovery will occur leading to enhanced capacity. In sports physiology this is called the Law of Specific Adaptations to Imposed Demands (SAID).

"Taking it easy" because the season is hard and tough is a shit approach and doesn't work. Both mental and physical adaptation will occur from being put through training as similar as possible to what they will be expected to reproduce throughout the year.
 
It'd be nice to start the season looking fit and ready to go for a change. We've got a big squad and no European football next season so I wouldn't be overly concerned.
 
No euro footy, pretty much a game a week. Run the fuckers into the ground. We need to be fitter than everyone with our nightmare start
 
It will be interesting to see how the training changes, along with the new nutrition plans, work out, because something's obviously not been right in recent pre-seasons. I don't just mean with injuries, but also with the fact that we've tended to start very sluggishly, fading quite significantly in the second half of games, between August and about November. I've no idea what will happen, but it's surely right that something new is being tried.

Quite. I think this is the first opportunity he's had now to actually build something from scratch without interuption (bar the delay of International players returning). His pressing worked well for about 4-5 months of the season, but you could see how leggy we were in the last few games and we started to get quite a few knocks too during his first few months, perhaps due to the change in training. Who knows.

Either way, you have to think that getting the fitness work in now will pay when the real stuff kicks off in August and will hopefully raise general fitness levels, to help us last over the course of the season.

We've got a lot of physical lads now, he seems to be adding athletes, which is a big plus to a side that's lacking in natural strength, height and agility.
 
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