INTRODUCTION

• Pre season workouts: Strength and power workouts
• In season workouts: maintaining/strength and power stimulation/pre training activation
• Return to play and Injury Prevention: Controlled eccentric overload with software unbalance feedbacks

Olympique de Marseille TRAINING PHYLOSOPHY (17/18)

• Load progression based on each player’s coordination ability
• Moving by subsequently coordinative steps to allow safety and complete movement control
• First goal: improve the specific movement efficiency under stress

2 ways to achieve eccentric response, based on the goal:

• ANALYTICAL WAY: prevention and strengthening
• FUNCTIONAL WAY: activation and strengthening

Progressions based on 2 elements: EXERCISE COMPLEXITY and LOAD

• start from a simple movement, add complexity, then add rotations and at the end add unbalance; it is crucial to respect the steps
• load selection is based on the GOAL: opposite from the weightlifting.

1. RECOVERY WORKOUTS: high inertias (PRO) to use when the muscles are stressed (after match) -> no high speed reached, less risk in the eccentric phase
2. PREVENTING ANALYTICAL WORKOUT: medium inertias (L+M) searching for movement control that will lead to efficiency
3. PERFORMANCE WORKOUTS: little inertias -> extremely fast muscle contraction -> high risk if the athletes don’t have a good movement coordination (btw, you can use low inertias in reeducation but with slow speed)

SCENARIO EXAMPLE

GAME DAY: SUNDAY

MONDAY: STRENGTH CIRCUIT TRAINING (only for who did not play on Sunday)

STRENGTH on +3 and -2 from Game Day

ADDITIONAL INDIVIDUAL CONDITIONING TRAININGS

 

PROTOCOL

TEAM WORKOUT BASE: on D. squatting, on V. CORE, ROTATIONAL, C.O.D., Specific 4 directions workout for goalkeepers, more analytical for individual conditioning trainings

STRENGTH 1 (+3 FROM GAME DAY)

4-5 STATION CIRCUIT TRAINING with D.LINE for vertical forces and V.LINE for horizontal forces
2 sets of 8-10 reps (in order to have at least 6-8 full power reps)

STRENGTH 2 (-2 FROM GAME DAY)

4-5 STATION HALF CIRCUIT TRAINING
2 sets of 4-5 reps -> to be done before the field training in order to have neuromuscular activation

Once the players have good movement control on the devices -> CLUSTER METHOD (to have always full power during exercises). PROGRESSION during the year: ADD Exercises COMPLEXITY, ADD SPEED

SOCCER SKILLS

• BALANCE
• POWER(SPEED)
• WORK CAPACITY (ABILITY TO REPEAT)

On V.Line

• unilateral front /lateral lunge
• reverse fly with split squat
• press + lunge

On D.Line 

• side to side rotating staggered squat

 

 

 

 

CONCLUSIONS

The integration of Desmotec devices into the proposed training program, allows the athletes to approach a specific training focused on power and muscular strengthening. The opportunity to collect, save and store the training data and evaluate the progress step by step, allows the trainers to analyse the training course and the performances of every athlete. Furthermore, using Desmotec devices, the athlete is subject to lower lumbar overload compared with the traditional methods.

 

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