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Football
Duration
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Studies show that a team that are winning will spend 27.5 minutes in their defensive third, 51.7 minutes in the middle third and 19.1 minutes in the attacking third when playing at home.
Studies also show that when a team are winning away, they would spend on an average 34.6 minutes in their defensive third, 48.8 minutes in the middle third and only 12.9 minutes in the attacking third.
On average, in a Premier League game, the ball will spend 54 minutes in play. This all depends on the team that is playing as one team may be more attacking.
13.3 minutes of independent ball control is said to be the time spent on average a player will spend without passing the ball.
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Recovery methods
Competitive games
After every competition game, on average, a player will spend a minimum of 72hrs where they will not be training and will be undergoing recovery methods including ice baths, massages, stretches, cardio ECT
When a player plays at high level of competition like the premier league, players will usually play on a Saturday or Sunday and then will use the week ahead to recover ready for the up and coming weekend.
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Sports massages allow for a player to keep up with how there body is coping with any training plans as a sports masseuse will go in depth on the body including hip positioning, posture, tightness/tenseness with muscles and it also allows for players to understand where their weak points are on their body.
Movement Patterns
Reactive Movements
Jumping for a header or jumping for a catch as a goalkeeper.
To improve your reactive movements you can do exercises such as Box jumps (guided), Squats, silence training to work on reaction to light and movement, crossing practice and also you can simply throw a ball in the air and jump towards it.
Pre-programmed Movements
As a goalkeeper, A simple dive or the Danish catch are two great example of pre-programmed workouts. There are many ways to train these, for example, without a ball you can learn the proper technique on how to dive and you can repeat it over until it becomes muscle memory. To improve the Danish catch you can use a tennis ball to improve hand eye co-ordination, medicine ball to practice the method of the catch and you can use the drill called distraction to repeat the movement until it becomes natural.
Change of direction
Sidestepping a player/performing a skill to get past them. To work on Change of direction movements, you can do exercises such as Sidestep lunges, footwork with agility ladders, Treadmill work to improve speed and endurance and also sprints on the spot to improve movement speed in a certain position.
Sustained Movements
Running in a game is one of the best examples of a sustained movement because it is one of the most used movements in football. To train this movement you can do simple exercises without weights such as shuttle sprints, sled push for the explosiveness of a sprint and also you can use a treadmill to improve endurance
Level of contact
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Goalkeepers have less physical contact with players although if they are on the defending team, they will spend a lot of time in contact with the ball
All players will have contact with the ball no matter their position although attackers and goalkeepers are said to have the most contact with the ball.
Types of activities
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Standing still
On average, a midfield player would spend around 8-12 minutes of the game standing still/ in a recovery phase.