{"id":2426,"date":"2020-06-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/vlogs\/virtual-leaders-meet-navigating-through-challenges-on-athletic-performance-programmes\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:20:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:20:03","slug":"virtual-leaders-meet-navigating-through-challenges-on-athletic-performance-programmes","status":"publish","type":"vlog","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/virtual-leaders-meet-navigating-through-challenges-on-athletic-performance-programmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Leaders Meet: Navigating Through Challenges on Athletic Performance Programmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- blocks\/hero-editorial -->\n<!-- inc\/hero-editorial -->\n<div class=\"hero es-hero__editorial hero--var-1\" role=\"banner\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Session-2-Image.jpg);\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__overlay grad-overlay content-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content\">\n                    \n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <p class=\"es-label es-label--md\">\n                                Jun 15, 2020                            <\/p>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\" class=\"theme-dark hero__back-link back-link es-label es-label--sm\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon icon--md icon--arrow-left\"><\/span>Videos<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero__title\">Virtual Leaders Meet: Navigating Through Challenges on Athletic Performance Programmes<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n        \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <section class=\"es-section theme-light hero__sidebar-wrapper container\">\n        <div class=\"hero__sidebar\">\n                            <div class=\"category-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Category<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/human-performance\/\" rel=\"tag\">Human Performance<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/summit-session\/\" rel=\"tag\">Summit Session<\/a>                <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"share-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Share<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/virtual-leaders-meet-navigating-through-challenges-on-athletic-performance-programmes\/\">Facebook<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/virtual-leaders-meet-navigating-through-challenges-on-athletic-performance-programmes\/&#038;text=Virtual Leaders Meet: Navigating Through Challenges on Athletic Performance Programmes\">Twitter<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Here's a Leaders In Sport article for you &amp;body=Check out this article: Virtual Leaders Meet: Navigating Through Challenges on Athletic Performance Programmes. https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/virtual-leaders-meet-navigating-through-challenges-on-athletic-performance-programmes\/\">Email<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"#copyLink\" id=\"copyButton\" class=\"copy-link-clipboard\">Copy Link<\/a>\n                  <div id=\"textToCopy\" class=\"font-hidden\">https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/virtual-leaders-meet-navigating-through-challenges-on-athletic-performance-programmes\/<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<!-- blocks\/section -->\n<section\n  class=\"es-section flexible-section  text-only theme-light\"\n    >\n                <div class=\"container\">\n                                    <div class=\"bg-striped-pattern__inner section-padding-top section-padding-bottom\">\n                <div class=\"es-section__inner col-parent col-parent--stack-sm\">\n                                            <div class=\"es-section__sidebar es-section__sidebar--sticky col col--12 \">\n                            \n                                                                <div class=\"video video__inline\">\n                                        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/425095913\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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Speakers Darren Burgess, who is the current High Performance Manager at Melbourne FC, and Bryce Cavanagh, Head of Physical Performance &amp; Medicine at the Football Association, discussed: managing competitive schedules and athlete training loads from the perspectives of club and governing body, systematic planning best practices and long-term training plans and rethinking periodisation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a national team, tournament-based set-up the best way to find efficiency in your periodisation strategies is through representative training designs that resemble the tournament. There are three areas that can stretch a team in the field during those denser periods when scenario training is required:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1. Intensity \u2013 physical risks around fatigue; maximise the stress components<\/p>\n<p>2. Clarity \u2013 to promote better decision-making when performing under pressure<\/p>\n<p>3. Execution \u2013 better execution of skills<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These result in physical, tactical\/technical and psychological constructs and the aim should be to hit two or three of those for the benefit of both coaches and players.<\/li>\n<li>When assessing the physical readiness of athletes, understand that everything comes at a cost. Complete gap analyses with players and coaches in order to plan your training weeks but be aware: pulling a player out of training could cost them an appearance or some crucial knowledge or learning. Offset that cost by chronically increasing the capability of the players, who will then be able to better recover. In recent times there has been a prioritisation of sleep, nutrition and recovery &#8211; that concept of the \u2018other 22 hours\u2019 when they\u2019re not training &#8211; we will try to offset that cost accurately before looking at training manipulation.<\/li>\n<li>When identifying which athletes need additional work, be careful when switching exercises or intensity as there may be some athlete resistance. If a certain exercise load is needed, split the volume to, say, 15-20 minutes repeated every day and rely upon the cumulative effect, which also minimises any risk.<\/li>\n<li>Before players at Melbourne returned to group training, the team focused on tendon load for acceleration and deceleration in order to reduce the fatigue risk posed by testing breaking strength or sprinting strength. It was work that the players could do on their own or in pairs, which helped them to remain accountable. It is a question of educating players in the risk of not doing their off-season work away from the club. It is now a much easier sell.<\/li>\n<li>When returning to contact training post-lockdown, it is important to phase linear contact, unpredictable contact and multidirectional contact. If the work is done in smaller-sized games then the collisions are often but not as impactful. Ideally, we\u2019d have five or six weeks to prepare athletes for the return to play, with the structured reintroduction of loads and contacts before then tapering down to restart but, quite simply, they need to return for financial as well as health and wellbeing-based reasons too.<\/li>\n<li>In some cases during the lockdown, protein intakes decreased as players became obsessed with calorie deficits; they lost more weight than they gained and that needed to be addressed by the performance team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            \n                            \n                            \n                                                    <\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"col visibly-hidden col--flex-align-right\">\n                                            <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":2427,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[21,33],"pathway":[],"topic":[],"sport":[],"class_list":["post-2426","vlog","type-vlog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-performance","category-summit-session"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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