The new Head of of Sports Medicine and Sports Science at Liverpool Peter Brukner has stated they will be big changes to Liverpool’s training regime next season. The Australian will utilise methods used in other sports which he believes will lead to less players visiting the treatment room. Two crucial innovations according to Brukner will be asking players to do 15 minutes of injury prevention before each training session as well as using “GPS Systems” to monitor player fitness. Brukner said to Liverpoolfc.tv:
“The players will notice an immediate difference come the start of the 2010-11 season. Liverpool’s set-up is already the equal of any Premier League club. I want to now take it to the next level and make it the benchmark in world football for sports medicine and sports science. I’m quite confident we’ll do that. Our plan is for the players to do a 15-minute session before they start training. This will be purely on injury prevention – working on hamstrings, groins, thighs, calves and so on. The other thing we’ll be doing more of is monitoring their general well-being, their general health and their workload. There’s a lot of GPS systems now and they’re not just for cars. It’ll be like having a sat nav on every player! We’ll be able to modify their programmes depending on how much they play and how quickly they recover. It’s our responsibility to sell that to the players and I don’t think that will be difficult because they don’t want to be injured.”
Brukner will join up with Liverpool for pre-season training after completing his current job with Australia in the World Cup. Let’s hope he’s the man that can keep Fernando Torres fit.
