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Petracca training incident

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It probably helps in increasing lung capacity and help with the players being able to run out games better which is something we need a lot of help with. 

 
11 minutes ago, DemonOX said:

It probably helps in increasing lung capacity and help with the players being able to run out games better which is something we need a lot of help with. 

The club should do some Mongolian throat singing together to increase their lung capacity. ?

 

Edited by John Demonic

 

At least it shows that they are still working to fast track performance, through breath hold/lactic acid type exercises.  It may have been a shift up from HIIT type training, to give some variation.  I dont imagine that they would be doing this every week.

2 other points:  Trac was obviously pushing himself, (good thing).  Trac was pulled out safely in an appropriately monitored exercise (also a good thing).

It is just that we are travelling so badly that everything is viewed though the ‘clown school football club lens.  Its a hard job not to....


5 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

Thats gotta be the dumbest exercise Ive ever heard of.  Holy [censored].

Was our brilliant head of fitness behind it?

Get that [censored] (Misson) out of the club asap.

3 hours ago, McQueen said:

You mob are clowns. Half of you have no idea what the benefits of this training are and the other half are too ignorant to care. 

Blackouts like this can be common for people who have taken it too far like Trac. 

If we 5-1 in the black we’d be applauding him for pushing himself that little bit further. 

Peanuts. 

Hooray......at last a comment with some sense!

If they were doing this all of last year, which may have been the case, we would be applauding the players, fitness staff & their alternative methods.

 

 

 

Jesus this club is [censored] thick.

Heat training in preseason. (short term benefits only, if at all)

Sleep deprivation military camps. (evidence says you should do the complete opposite)

Brick in bag smash head exercise while sleep deprived. (Surprisingly not good at all)

Drowning excerices leading up to round 7.(New low. Clap. [censored] clap.)


4 minutes ago, BAMF said:

Jesus this club is [censored] thick.

Heat training in preseason. (short term benefits only, if at all)

Sleep deprivation military camps. (evidence says you should do the complete opposite)

Brick in bag smash head exercise while sleep deprived. (Surprisingly not good at all)

Drowning excerices leading up to round 7.(New low. Clap. [censored] clap.)

Just don't bother to post again mate.

Such rubbish.

Apart from anything else, this thread just shows how out of touch many here are with the realities of professional sport.

4 hours ago, Superunknown said:

As a lifelong asthmatic I got on a bike and started punching out 400k a week and 3-4min/km 5k runs and cutting out dairy and animal based food and voila . Not the same for everyone ja

You win

5 hours ago, Superunknown said:

As a lifelong asthmatic I got on a bike and started punching out 400k a week and 3-4min/km 5k runs and cutting out dairy and animal based food and voila . Not the same for everyone ja

I'd rather drown.
Feed the man meat.

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7 hours ago, Cards13 said:

Kudos to him for the donation, sorry for the loss.

Cheers Cards - it happened over 15 years ago now so I'm fairly well adjusted - although, I have to be honest, while I grew up with my step-brother, the pain hasn't been as acute as it has for his full brother - or, I imagine, if it had been my own genetic brother who had perished. 

I delivered the eulogy at his funeral - at around the age of twenty - and for the first time recognised that I was coming to know less and less about the world as I aged, contrary to expectations. Affairs weren't getting blacker but more grey. My MFC experience has been the same.

Edited by Skuit


12 hours ago, Demon Disciple said:

Seriously wtf!

It's like the entire club is trying to force a square plug into a round hole. Don't worry about just going from A to B, when we can visit X Y & Z along the way.

These guys do know that we're meant to be playing footy right?

Now that i think about it thought it makes sense, given that Goody's game plan is sinking (or is that sunk?).

 

Sunk. For many reasons. 

13 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Sounds like he may have had latent hypoxia. Being an ex-navy diver, I can tell you there’s no benefit to this sort of exercise for professional sports players. It was used more so to put trainees under stress.

I agree completely, military style training for any type of athlete is just pure garbage.

Holding your breath out of water can also achieve hypoxia. What’s the benefit of doing it under water?

29 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

Holding your breath out of water can also achieve hypoxia. What’s the benefit of doing it under water?

It encourages you not to cheat

13 hours ago, Jaded said:

This season is a tragic chain of diabolical events. 

How about we learn to play a decent game plan and spend less time walking with balls underwater. 

If we happen to pull off a surprise win in a heavy downpour perhaps this will have contributed. ?


Could be a tactic a bit like @Ethan Tremblaycomment that in the navy they used it to test trainees.

So maybe it was more of a psychological thing to take players out of their comfort zones and be ok to take risks and not play safe.

 

Also, can we stop with all the snide remarks.  The guy is working hard.  This could have been serious. 

 

Edited by Lucifer's Hero

11 hours ago, John Demonic said:

The club should do some Mongolian throat singing together to increase their lung capacity. ?

 

Thanks @John Demonic it’s posts like yours that help make Demonland just that little bit different.

 
9 hours ago, McQueen said:

Just don't bother to post again mate.

Such rubbish.

I was venting. Jesus. Get a grip.

11 hours ago, John Demonic said:

The club should do some Mongolian throat singing together to increase their lung capacity. ?

 

Go one better and get this mob for their throat singing and old school fighting lyrics...

"If you come with evil intentions, we'll give you a fight!" was surely written with $cully in mind.

 

 

 


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