What are your training tactics?

[Pete Cresswell]

Yeah i train them down so when the next match comes they will be back near 100%. Also I avoid practice match if possible because of its frequency of injuries. If I have the time I will only train them down to a minimum of 80%, and then when they get back near 100% I train them again. It cuts down on injuries

That's an interesting point re. practice matches, I hadn't thought about that.

Looking at my 3 season's injury causes, the relative number of injuries does seem roughly proportional to the condition loss incurred in the actvity* - I generally give all my squad 1 of each type of training per day, assuming they also play a match. And I try to use friendly matches to ensure I play 2 matches per day (I failed on a few occasions while on holiday the last 10 days of last season and did extra training instead for the reserves), so the number of cup+CL+friendly matches will be roughly equal to the number of league matches**.





*Warning, 50 injuries is still a very very small sample
** 14 injuries in 79 league matches means you expect to get 1 every 5-6 league matches). Unfotrunately I haven't kept an exact count of the number of Cup/CL/Friendly matches played over the seasons. Based on my History I'd say that (over the last 3 and a bit seasons) I'd have played:
Cup - 22 matches
CL - 39 matches (almost identical chance of an injury as in league matches)
Friendly - about 30 (so slightly higher injury probability but balanced by low Cup injury rate - possibly a small-sample issue. Though the severity of injuries is lower as a balancer).

[gogs67]

That's an interesting point ........................ lower as a balancer).

Keep at it m8, this is as good as it's going to get to have any kind of idea of how injuries are actually spread out.
I'd far rather watch this unfold than some anecdotal 'Nordeus has hit the injury button to make us spend money' post that we get 99% of the time!

The one thing (and I know it's you that's doing it, I'm not the one getting off my arse and collecting all this information) , is the actual training intensity. Is it always medium? Or do you ever train on 'Hard'? I feel that makes a difference, but it'd be interesting to have something to back it up.
Cheers!

[Pete Cresswell]

Cheers mate.

I generally train on medium, if you see "Power Training" then that's an injury on hard intensity. I generally only do that with a handful of players on days when I only have 1 match, and have time - so hardly did any last season.

Keep at it m8, this is as good as it's going to get to have any kind of idea of how injuries are actually spread out.
I'd far rather watch this unfold than some anecdotal 'Nordeus has hit the injury button to make us spend money' post that we get 99% of the time!

The one thing (and I know it's you that's doing it, I'm not the one getting off my arse and collecting all this information) , is the actual training intensity. Is it always medium? Or do you ever train on 'Hard'? I feel that makes a difference, but it'd be interesting to have something to back it up.
Cheers!

[gogs67]

Cheers mate.

I generally train on medium, if you see "Power Training" then that's an injury on hard intensity. I generally only do that with a handful of players on days when I only have 1 match, and have time - so hardly did any last season.

Haha, jeez, my bad, shoulda noticed that one.
Be interesting to see if 'hard' intensity brings about twice as many injuries as medium. Hopefully my next Academy intake in a couple of days will give me a guy I want to power train, I'll maybe keep note of every session on 'hard', see how it turns out.