Double Training Sessions?

[alib]

can the lads who post on here reports about City training at Carrington tell whether we still have these?

I see Tevez in his Daily Mail interview says he and the other players don't like them but I've read no reprots from the Training Ground Mafia on Bluemoon mentioning double sessions?

indeed I recall them sometimes commenting on the brevity of some sessions????

 

[MCFC-alan88]

There's a conversation going on in here.

 

[alib]

not really a conversation?

anyway I was hoping for a response from the guys who actually go down to Carrington on a regular basis to see if we do actually have morning and afternoon sessions (which is what I understand "double training sessions" to mean)?

 

[MCFC-alan88]

not really a conversation?

anyway I was hoping for a response from the guys who actually go down to Carrington on a regular basis to see if we do actually have morning and afternoon sessions (which is what I understand "double training sessions" to mean)?

Then they're probably at Carrington now then, heh? ;-)

Or asleep, lucky bastards..

 

[chedinho]

if alan ball was still in charge,we would only need the one training session.a week,that is.

 

[johnny crossan]

Doug posted this in response to a similar question on mancityfansnet

I think it's a great interview and shows Tevez as a quality and honest individual.The issues about training have been mentioned before and I don't actually see them as a big moan at all even if the press would like to make them out to be.It is possible to think and say all that without it constituting a major fall out with the manager.

Usually if they do a double session they are not both major work outs. Not necessarily a tactical one followed by a normal one but certainly not two tough ones in a day. Last week they did a morning sesssion which was mostly about tests both of power and a little on stamina ( bleep testing I believe )Then in the afternoon they did a more normal one with some warming up and a fairly short football session. But the vast majority of days it is just one training session a day and some of those are very light.

Last week they trained 4 days in a row which surprised me and it might even have been 5 if they got together on the Saturday before Brum on Sunday.A couple of those were full on training days but the others were gentle ( head tennis majored on one).I got the impression Mancini isn't all about working them really hard but getting them together as a group often.I think the team spirit is good and maybe has improved ( winning helps) and he also can work on the basics as he sees them for a few minutes each time rather than having fewer sessions and spending a high % on those basics.

It will be interesting to see how much they do this week.

 

[alib]

thanks for that Johnny

that's what I was after

 

[Project]

I've always got the impression from those reports that they aren't strenuous training sessions. Which makes the comments coming out in the media bizarre. By all accounts Hughes and co would run the players ragged.