Thoughts on Charlie Francis and soccer

[svincenz]

@no23

I was being general on purpose.

To get into the exact details of each technology would take forever, so I was speaking about the application of technology - from simplest to most complex.

Take timing gates and speed technique as an example … how many people use them properly and adjust training properly as a result?
How many people test speed once or twice and it just tells them what they more or less know already?

To summarize …
A test or technology is only useful if it affects a training session.

(Now I’m talking about Team Sports just so we are on the same page.)

Also, you make the comparison of quinine and malaria, with overtraining - however we generally wish to prevent overtraining, and as we know prevention is much more complex and therefore there is no ‘plug & play’ option, rather a protocol and series of steps to prevent it.

This is what I mean by application of technology.

Yes, the example with overtraining was not the most appropriate, sorry. But you can choose whatever physiological trait you want.
Technology, as I see that, as I am not so “clinically” oriented, can be very useful in terms of first principles that directly or indirectly can affect a training session (can be a training itself). But I’m not thinking about something to be plugged exclusively. But now I more clearly understand your point, thanks.