The athletes how I will be training are in professional football teams with big reputations and it is my job to get these players at their best in only two weeks.
The first player is Kasim Zafeer and he is a strong and tall centre-half but his pace and
stamina is what I will be trying to improve. His age is 21. I will make him do a series of fitness tests to see what level he is on now and after the two weeks he will do them again and then I will compare the results and see weather there is an improvement. I know that the improvement will not be huge because the time limit is very short but my aim is to have some effect.
The first fitness test was the beep test and Kasim achieved level 13.9 which is below the average level for a professional footballer.
I also tested him on the 12 minute run around a football pitch and Kasim got 11 laps which is just a bit below the average of a footballer.
I also tested kasim on the shuttle run and he just achieved average level .
He was also put through his paces on the agility test and he managed to complete the circuit in 15.5 seconds.
This is an table of his results;-
Test name
level
Above average or below
New results
Beep test
13.9
Below average
14.0
12 minute run
11 laps
Below average
11
Shuttle run
14
average
14
Agility test
15 .5 seconds
average
15.6 seconds
This is what I told kasim to do;-
T
Morning
Afternoon
Monday
Did fartlek training
Football match- with rule -no stopping
Tuesday
Did 24 minute run
Did 10 agility test
Wednesday
Shuttle run
40 minute jog
Thursday
Football match- with rule -no stopping
Did fartlek training
Friday
Sprinting for 100 metres
Did 800 metre run
Saturday
Shuttle run
40 minute jog
As the table shows there is a slight improvement in Kasim’s performances. There is only a small differences but I didn’t expect there to be a huge change. This gives me the impression that if Kasim kept on following my training programme for a longer time there would be a bigger change.
My second player is Thayyab Siddique and he is a pacy centre forward but I will be trying to improve his muscular strength. His age is 28. I will make him do a series of fitness tests to see what level he is on now and after the two weeks he will do them again and then I will compare the results and see weather there is an improvement. I know that the improvement will not be huge because the time limit is very short but my aim is to have some effect.
These are his previous results;-
Test name
level
Above average or below
New results
Beep test
15.8
average
15.8
12 minute run
13 laps
above average
13
Yo-yo test
14
average
14
Agility test
14 .5 seconds
above average
14.5 seconds
Lifting ability ( weights)
100 kgs
Below average
102 kg
This is what I told thayyab to do during the two weeks ;-
Day
Morning
Afternoon
Monday
Weights for 20 minutes
Football match with special weights attached to arm
tuesday
Boxer abs
Jog while holding weights
wednesday
Power lifting
Weights for legs
thursday
Weights for 30 minutes
Power lifting
friday
Weights for legs
Boxer abs
saturday
Jog while holding weights
Weights for 30 minutes
After following this regime for 2 weeks it is clear that there is a slight improvement in Thayyab’s strength and that shows that if he carried on then there would be a bigger improvement. I must also ensure that Thayyab has suitable gaps to regain his energy and that’s the reason why I have gave him Sunday off from any training. Everyday Thayyab should feel muscle fatigue due to the hard schedule he will be undertaking.
Kasim Zafeer
Position: centre back
Date of Birth: 30/05/1985
Height: 6′ 3
Weight: 12st 8
1st team games: 102
1st team goals: 01
International caps: 12
International goals: 02
Former clubs: Trainee
Birth Place: Rotherham
Thayyab Siddique
Date of Birth: 30/05/1978
Height: 5 ‘ 2
Weight: 9st 2
1st team games: 52
1st team goals: 21
International caps: 25
International goals: 12
Former clubs: Rotherham united
Birth Place: Chester
