Is too much football causing injuries?
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Jon Mackenzie is joined by performance manager Callum Walsh to talk about the problems associated with player fitness.
What does an average week look like for a fitness and conditioning professional in a football club?
How much of an influence does the team’s game model have on the strength and conditioning process?
How many games is too many games, and what is a reasonable recovery time between matches?
How should we think about clubs that seem to consistently suffer from more injuries than others?
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO Football Podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | I am John McKenzie and I'm joined as I always am by my good pal and producer Mike Zimmerman. |
| 0:14.5 | Mike, how are you doing? |
| 0:15.3 | Doing good, John. How are you? |
| 0:16.8 | Yeah, I'm doing really well and I'm doing really well because we've just had a conversation |
| 0:20.3 | with a really fascinating guy, a fitness and conditioning expert, a guy called Callum Walsh. |
| 0:25.2 | He's told us a lot about what goes on behind the scenes in medical departments at football |
| 0:29.5 | clubs around the world. |
| 0:31.3 | And you have just listened to that conversation. |
| 0:33.5 | So what did you make of it? |
| 0:34.3 | I really enjoyed the conversation about, you know, the physical expectation that's kind of |
| 0:38.8 | placed on these players now. |
| 0:40.7 | How much football is too much football? |
| 0:43.1 | Is this really hurting players' futures and careers? |
| 0:46.9 | Where do managers come in? |
| 0:48.3 | Do they have a say with forcing these players on the pitch if they're just really not |
| 0:52.6 | 100%. |
| 0:53.3 | So different perspectives within |
| 0:55.6 | the club. And I think Callum did a great job of kind of talking about who has what say. |
| 0:59.9 | Yeah, absolutely. And again, rather than I was talking about what he said, |
| 1:03.1 | the best thing for us to do is to just move on and listen to what Callum had to say to us. So this is Calla Mosh. |
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