With the 2025 season approaching, Bruce chats with Dr. Shane Malone (TU Dublin) about all things pre-season for the team sports. We discuss Shane’s brand new research (co-authored with Martin Buchheit) which suggests we may have become too reliant on GPS, marking the return of heart rate as a critical monitoring tool. Shane reveals why the traditional aerobic slog might be working for your midfielders but failing your explosive corner-forwards due to diminishing returns. Also discussed:
- The New Rules: How the “solo-and-go” and the 2-point arc might spike high-speed running demands this year
- Sport Science 3.0: Why combining Internal Load (Heart Rate) with External Load (GPS) is the future
- The Research: A breakdown of the 2025 “Dose-Response” paper—Endurance vs. Hybrid vs. Speed profiles
- Practical Coaching: How to stop the “January Spike” in injuries and why you need to treat your speed merchants differently
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