Jose Mourinho - Myth of Physical Fitness What first drew attention to many of the players of Madrid when the preseason began with Jose Mourinho, last summer, was that there were NO sessions devoted exclusively to physical training. The coach Rui Faria, technical right arm, did not put continuous running for exercise the heart and lungs, and designed them to work the power circuits, or for them to climb ramps and obstacles to jump. "I just did three games against three, three against two, four against three, five against five ..." recalls a player, "played every day in a field varying width, with goals that increased or decreased in number or size. " There were players unbelievers. "You're going to get very good at the end of the season," Mourinho reassured them. After the template is left without doing what traditionally was considered physical work. Only, the ball games. Routines distracted, but intense, which naturally became more well known as exercising the body and mind, the physical and tactics. In the book "Why so many victories?" Mourinho argues that your workouts are never without the ball from the start because they spin around the football organization. In the organizational process, the players are trained to play and, therefore, evolve physically. "By privileging the tactical side, I'm favoring all the other components of performance," says, "from the tactical necessity arises all the rest. I do not believe in team good or ill prepared physically, but in teams identified or not with a given game matrix. Because physiological adaptation is always specific to that form of play. Concerns technical, physical and psychological, such as concentration, arising from creeping ". Eight months after the preseason, Madrid reached the peak of his physical condition. If you have an advantage over Barca in the next round of the Champions League, lies in the greater freshness of his players. Also, having a longer template has enabled the Madrid players play an average of 300 minutes less competitive than their opponents Barca. So far this season, the method has not changed. The contrary. These days, the regular starters, as a Christiano, Alonso and Ramos, are hardly being trained. The sessions on the grass are minimal. Fifteen minutes a stretch and to rest. The gym is reserved for injured or who have a deficit to be corrected. The workouts last an hour and are carefully timed practice match, between 10 and 20 minutes, and develop at a rapid pace. The players say they can not stop. That should always be moving and approaching the maximum stresses. "You have a few seconds to recover and drink," they explain, "and if you get distracted talking to someone you run out of drink." Cyclically, Mourinho interrupts the automatic partidillos to work with groups of 11 defensive. At this point, everyone recognizes that
the work of the Portuguese is excellent. Thanks to his successes, Mourinho popularized a method, integrated training, which began to conceive in Barcelona under the command of Louis van Gaal. The integrated training stems from an invention of Paco Seirul·lo as a fitness coach Valero Rivera at Barça handball. From there he went to football system with Johan Cruyff and Van Gaal. Juanma Lillo completed application in football when heading to Zaragoza in 2000. "Historically, most of the physical preparation was oblivious to the needs of the player and the game that came inspired by the mechanism and behaviorism," says Lillo, "the old coaches came from athletics and had been inspired by the linear theory. But if there is something that is not linear is a living being. Much less a team of 25 living beings. " As Lillo said: "In football, the physical training without the ball is like training arm strength Nadal without integrating the arm to the body." Rui Faria and Mourinho practice it in Madrid. And the players are grateful
