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Training principles in football

Dave Barron shows how the principles of FITT and SPORT can be applied to football training.

With the influx of sport science into professional football, the way in which players are prepared for games has changed significantly over the last 10–15 years. This has been aided by match analysis software and an increasing amount of scientific research that has revealed precise information about the work players perform.

When preparing a periodised conditioning plan the season can be divided into three main periods, each of which has its own conditioning goals:

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