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Individualising Team Sport Conditioning:

Your typical #GAA athlete can be grouped into 3 physiological locomotor types:

♦️Endurance Profile (slow twitch fibres)
♦️Speed Profile (fast twitch)
♦️Hybrid Profile (mixed)

First profile athletes, then apply suitable HIIT methods.

How do we group the athletes ? By applying concepts of the Anaerobic Speed Reserve.

Divide Maximal Sprinting Speed
by
Maximal Aerobic Speed to get your player profile.

e.g.
9 m/s ➗ 5 m/s = 1.8

<1.7 = Endurance Profile
>1.9= Speed Profile
1.8-1.9= Hybrid Profile

♦️Endurance Profile 🫀🫁

Top of time trials and fitness tests & can run all day on the GAA field. Their top end speed will not be as high as other players. Tend to play the middle 8 positions.

Optimal conditioning methods:
Long HIIT 2-4 min runs, threshold runs, steady state.

Speed Profile 🧨

Known for their ability to accelerate & high top speeds, not endurance. May be players who gravitate to the full forward/back line.

Optimal conditioning methods are HIIT methods:
Repeated Sprint Training, Extensive & Intensive Tempo, Sprint Interval Training.

These athletes are fast twitch dominant with a larger difference between max sprint speed and max aerobic speed = a large Anaerobic Speed Reserve.

Short HIIT intervals of 10-30s with a work:rest of 1:1 or 1:2 can also be useful.

It is best to use a % of the athletes ASR. ⏭️

Hybrid Profile 🏃🏻💨

Combining a mix of speed and endurance-fast but can run all day too. Often a half forward or half back.

All conditioning methods will benefit this athlete group, particularly Short HIIT Intervals, but also RST, longer intervals & even steady state runs.

We know that we should train athletes weaknesses. But at what cost ? If we focus too much on improving these weaknesses, it may be to the detriment of that athletes strengths, and remember it’s the strength that gives the athlete their signature quality.

For more information on Physiological Profiling give @Gareth_Sandford and the guys at @hiitscience a follow.

Great article on applying the concept of ASR 👇🏻

hiitscience.com/applying-anaer…

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