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Evidence, performance and practice.
Strong Hamstrings. Slow Sprinter. What’s Missing?
Does greater eccentric hamstring strength make footballers faster or reduce injury risk? A practical look at the evidence, sprint exposure and individual programming.
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What Sprint Exposure Does This Player Need This Week?
A low sprint total on a GPS report is not an instruction to add more running. This article explores how sprint definitions, match minutes, recent training, the microcycle and player response can inform a more individual decision.
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Your Dashboard Has 20 Metrics. Which Ones Change a Decision?
A practical guide to checking whether dashboard metrics are reliable, useful for decisions and worth reviewing in context.
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Half-Time Is Not a Break for Your Muscles
What the evidence says about half-time re-warm-ups, and a practical routine to trial in academy football.
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A Bigger Squat Won't Make Your Players Faster (On Its Own)
A stronger squat is a useful outcome, but players still need to sprint, jump and cut—and strength sessions need to fit around football.
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The GPS Looked Fine. The Player Wasn't.
Why player load is more than GPS, what fixture-congestion research tells us, and a practical way to connect exposure, recovery opportunity and player response.
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