Sport-specific intermittent endurance.
4 drills
4 drills
Full-pitch 11v11 with normal rules but no stoppages: the moment the ball goes out a coach feeds another one in instantly from the touchline and the players must press and transition without rest. The Wednesday exercise of Bielsa's Leeds.
The Hoff interval protocol moved into the game: 4v4 without keepers on 35x25 m, four 4-minute bouts at 90-95% of maximum heart rate with 3 minutes of active recovery.
Repeated-sprint-ability protocol validated in football players: 3-4 sets of 4-6 30 m shuttle sprints (20 m out, 180-degree turn and 10 m back) with 30 seconds of recovery between sprints.
Raymond Verheijen's football conditioning game for the final weeks of pre-season: 4v4 to two mini goals on 30x20 m, two sets of six 1-minute repetitions with 2 minutes of rest.