The Boys Are Back

[ugg]

sounds like Jay Neagle!!

Now, now there's no need to resort to name-calling.

[Triple B]

sounds like Jay Neagle!!

That's actually a very good comparison.

[unconfuseme]

Seems Hanners is recovering well from his surgery, Nipper is on fire, and a couple of the scholarship boys are pushing the listed players ... and it was hot this morning!



Swans youngsters hit the track - Official AFL Website of the Sydney Swans Football Club

[ScottH]

I wonder how much training in this heat drains the players during the year.
With teams heading to cooler high altitude these days, maybe a change of tack is required.
Seems to have helped the Pies in recent years.

Now North are doing it too.

[707]

I wonder how much training in this heat drains the players during the year.
With teams heading to cooler high altitude these days, maybe a change of tack is required.
Seems to have helped the Pies in recent years.Now North are doing it too.

Heat didn't hurt Brisbane win three flags. Don't worry about Sydney heat in the pre season, it's generally much hotter in Perth and Adelaide and there have been flag to them as well.

I think Collingwood is going for the altitude bit rather than the cool. I wonder if Krakouer is going as he has a criminal record and the US is hot on no visas for crims.

[ScottH]

Heat didn't hurt Brisbane win three flags. Don't worry about Sydney heat in the pre season, it's generally much hotter in Perth and Adelaide and there have been flag to them as well.

I think Collingwood is going for the altitude bit rather than the cool. I wonder if Krakouer is going as he has a criminal record and the US is hot on no visas for crims.

That is true about Brisbance, but the game has changed a great deal in that time, as has the pre season preparation.
Brisbane also had a lot of really good players at that time.

As for the Pies, Coolness comes with altitude.
And Krakouer hasn't gone to the US, he is still waiting for approval, last I heard.

[BSA5]

I wonder how much training in this heat drains the players during the year.
With teams heading to cooler high altitude these days, maybe a change of tack is required.
Seems to have helped the Pies in recent years.

Now North are doing it too.

High altitude training isn't about temperature, as far as I know. It's about increasing oxygen-carrying efficiency by excercising in a relatively low-oxygen environment, training the body to use every scrap of oxygen available, so that when they return to normal altitudes they use more oxygen, and therefore reduce the amount of anoxic respiration (which is like an emergency supply; it doesn't involve oxygen, is unsustainable and produces lactic acid, which is horrible) required.

I would have thought training in the heat would make them stronger.

[laughingnome]

I wonder how much training in this heat drains the players during the year.
With teams heading to cooler high altitude these days, maybe a change of tack is required.
Seems to have helped the Pies in recent years.

Now North are doing it too.

Alititude training promotes an increase in red blood cells to get oxygen around the body as the air is thinner. Upon returning to lower altitudes you have an over-abundance of RBCs and can more easily do aerobic work and do it longer before the anaerobic phase kicks in. I've never heard of it being done to escape heat.

[swansrob]

Melbourne based teams don't need to be too worried about escaping heat...

[ScottH]

Alititude training promotes an increase in red blood cells to get oxygen around the body as the air is thinner. Upon returning to lower altitudes you have an over-abundance of RBCs and can more easily do aerobic work and do it longer before the anaerobic phase kicks in. I've never heard of it being done to escape heat.

I wasn't meaning that they do it to escape the heat, just that they are not straining their bodies through the oz Summer.

[liz]

I wasn't meaning that they do it to escape the heat, just that they are not straining their bodies through the oz Summer.

The Oz spring hasn't even arrived in Sydney yet, let alone the Oz summer.

[Triple B]

Anybody else think Jettstar looks like a MOL clone in shot #12 of 20 of First day back for 1-3 year players - Nov 8, 2010?

Uncanny...

[rojo]

Great pictures. After so much time spent recovering from injury over the past couple of years Merry, Johnston and Currie must be rapt to be out there giving it their all. May they each have an injury free year this year so they can show us what they can do! Good to see Hanners is completely recovered from the shoulder surgery. It looks like Heath is the only one not out there at the moment. Bird is the only other youngie who will be coming back from injury.

It is not Rohan the Red out there in the shining sun at the moment, it is Rohan the white. I reckon he needs to keep his shirt on!!

[dimelb]

Anybody else think Jettstar looks like a MOL clone in shot #12 of 20 of First day back for 1-3 year players - Nov 8, 2010?

Uncanny...

In a word, yes. Hope he resembles him in other ways too.

[Primmy]

In a word, yes. Hope he resembles him in other ways too.

In a word Yes B and Mr D. More confidence than MOL had at first, but MOL was better at kicking. Did you catch the actual drop of the ball!!!! No wonder 19......