About LUIS TEJADA

[Donk]

Originally Posted by Stucki

As a coach, I would rather my athletes conditioned outside of practice. Practice time is often too valuable to work on conditioning when it could be better spent on skill development. Of course there always drills that work on both.

Of course my league has a 6 hour a week practice limit, so that does make things a bit more challenging.

Yeah, professionals have nothing else to do but get their bodies in shape...

[Jim Umber]

Originally Posted by rabble-rabble

Well if they are fit, I can see a visiting team running for the full 90 minutes, but our team sure as heck ought to be able to run along with them.

This is the thing that has always bothered me. When I see our guys getting tired at home, before the opposing team, when they come from Sea Level or close to it, that is just stupid. There is no excuse.

I remember when I went from Oregon to Colorado, I had a hard time doing anything for about two weeks. It took me that long to become acclimatized. So how is it that visiting teams can play for 90 minutes, but our team, which practices here, can't? CONDITIONNING!!!!!!!!!

These are professionals, they should do whatever they need to do to be in shape for the match. I beleive that Coach Kreis will help them see the benefits of that.

[taytay33]

As an athlete, we have very little time for conditioning. My coaches have always been more concerned with skills/plays/other more important things than conditioning. We were expected to run 2 miles on our own a week, usually on a saturday or sunday. It's not like the team doesn't have time, they have work for how many hours a day? Professional athletes should make time to be fit, it's their job to be.

[Balanceut]

Originally Posted by Stucki

As a coach, I would rather my athletes conditioned outside of practice. Practice time is often too valuable to work on conditioning when it could be better spent on skill development. Of course there always drills that work on both.

Of course my league has a 6 hour a week practice limit, so that does make things a bit more challenging.

JE's practices were often not as long as a game. At least making practice an intense 2 to 2.5 hours of work will go a long ways towards making the players match-fit.

[Jim Umber]

Originally Posted by Balanceut

JE's practices were often not as long as a game. At least making practice an intense 2 to 2.5 hours of work will go a long ways towards making the players match-fit.

Also, in the practices that I witnessed, the players seemed to be loafing a little, or at least not working too hard.

I imagine that Kreis will put a stop to that, as well. :hammer: